DAM Engineer

Role & responsibilities

IBM Guardium DAM Operations, Monitoring & Compliance Management

• Administer, maintain, and ensure the availability, stability, and performance of the IBM Guardium DAM platform.
• Perform routine platform health checks, capacity monitoring, upgrades, patching, backup, recovery, and operational maintenance activities.
• Monitor database activities through Guardium dashboards, reports, audit trails, and monitoring controls.
• Manage and maintain integration between IBM Guardium DAM and Google SecOps SIEM to ensure continuous forwarding and visibility of database security events.
• Configure, maintain, and optimize monitoring policies, exception rules, alerting mechanisms, and privileged user monitoring controls.
• Review, analyze, and investigate security alerts, policy violations, suspicious database activities, unauthorized access attempts, and anomalous user behavior.
• Conduct event analysis, root cause investigations, and incident resolution using Guardium logs and audit records, ensuring proper documentation and closure.
• Fine-tune policies and alert thresholds to improve monitoring effectiveness and reduce false positives.
• Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain Guardium S-TAP/K-TAP agents across supported database environments.
• Implement approved policy modifications in line with business, security, and regulatory requirements.
• Generate operational, compliance, and audit reports, dashboards, and evidence required for internal, external, and regulatory audits.
• Ensure database monitoring controls remain aligned with organizational security standards, governance requirements, and compliance obligations.
• Escalate critical security incidents and collaborate with SOC, Database, Application, Infrastructure, Risk, and Audit teams during investigations and remediation activities.

Required Technical Skills

Mandatory

• Minimum 3+ years of hands-on IBM Guardium DAM administration experience.
• Understanding of:
• IBM Guardium Architecture
• Collectors
• Aggregators
• Central Manager
• Experience handling:
• Policies
• Alerts
• Reporting
• Audit workflows
• Compliance use cases
• Experience performing Guardium health checks and troubleshooting.
• Good understanding of database security concepts.
• Working knowledge of Oracle and MS SQL environments.
• Linux administration fundamentals.
• Understanding of network concepts such as TCP/IP and SSL.

Soft Skills

• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong stakeholder management capabilities.
• Ability to work with Security, DBA, Audit, and Risk teams.
• Effective communication and documentation skills.
• Ability to work independently in a production support environment.