Role & responsibilities

Database Security Engineer DBMS

Experience: 8–10 Years
Skill Category: Cyber Security – GRC – Data Security / Database Administration (DBMS)
Work Locations: Gurgaon, Pune, Kochi, Bengaluru, Noida

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Database Security Engineer with robust expertise in database administration, database security engineering, security posture management, and production support. The candidate will be responsible for securing enterprise database environments, implementing security controls, ensuring regulatory compliance, and maintaining high availability and performance across relational and NoSQL databases.

Key Responsibilities

- Design, implement, and maintain secure database environments across Oracle, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.
- Establish database security baselines, hardening standards, and enterprise security policies.
- Implement encryption for data at rest and in transit using TDE, KMS, TLS, and mTLS.
- Manage Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), least-privilege access, privileged accounts, and automated credential rotation.
- Implement database auditing, Database Activity Monitoring (DAM), SIEM integration, and security alerting.
- Conduct vulnerability assessments, security configuration reviews, remediation tracking, and compliance audits.
- Support compliance requirements related to SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR.
- Manage database backup, recovery, replication, failover, disaster recovery, patching, and upgrades.
- Perform database performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, and capacity planning.




- Automate database security checks, policy validation, credential rotation, and compliance reporting using Python or Shell scripting.
- Investigate production incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Collaborate with database, application, SRE, cloud, security, risk, and audit teams.

Essential Skills

- 8–10 years of IT experience in database security engineering, security-focused database administration, or database security posture management.
- Hands-on experience with Oracle, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or other relational and NoSQL databases.
- Strong knowledge of database security, hardening, encryption, key management, and secure configuration.
- Experience with RBAC, least privilege, privileged access management, secrets management, and credential rotation.
- Knowledge of database activity monitoring, audit logging, SIEM integration, and vulnerability management.
- Understanding of security and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR.
- Experience with Python, Shell scripting, or equivalent automation tools.
- Good understanding of Linux/Unix, cloud infrastructure, networking, and production environments.
- Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Skills

- Experience with database security monitoring tools and enterprise security platforms.
- Knowledge of cloud database security and automated compliance controls.
- Experience implementing security controls across high-availability, mission-critical database clusters.

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