Database Security Engineer

Role & responsibilities

• Identify Sensitive Data and Protection of that sensitive data through suitable logging and monitoring methods.
• Perform Control Engineering of security tools to detect, monitor and protect sensitive data against potential malicious activity.
• Ensuring Security Compliance against regulations enforced by respective governments.
• Identify restricted data (PII, PCI and PHI) in structured and unstructured data both On-Prem and cloud platforms.
• The focus for the role will be on Data identification and Monitoring both in cloud and on-premises data repositories.

The Data Security Engineer is responsible for the build-out of the data security controls and for planning to ensure health and data protection is maintained at the highest levels. This role is the escalation point for Data Protection technical gaps and provides change governance.

Data Security Engineer Functions

• Provide SME expertise on security tool capabilities and configuration adjustments, when needed, to implement controls such as: Identify restricted Data, implement database monitoring, Perform Active Threat Analytics, Database misconfiguration and Database Entitlement reporting as well as during security incidents or block future security attacks
• Collaborate with the Manager to identify capability gaps and operational inconsistencies within the Data Protection controls environment and develop a plan to address through product enhancement, reconfiguration, upgrades and/or automation of processes
• Build, manage, and maintain the automated reporting dashboards system
• Provide on-call support
• Collaborate with Customers and other technology teams to ensure operational requests and incidents are resolved within defined SLAs
• Leverage tooling to monitor and optimize the performance of the wider data protection operations team
• Analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve complex technical Data Protection control issues working with vendor and internal teams
• Build, manage, and maintain the intake process for requests on service now or a suitable tool.
• Examine concepts, work on Proof of Concepts, develop Minimum Viable Product and scale and operationalize the product including documentation and process development,

Data Security Engineer Responsibilities

TIMELY COMPLETION OF WORK:

• Establish a baseline plan and corresponding execution roadmaps.
• Refresh and re-publish tactical Plan for advanced data protection controls
• Report progress against roadmap every month
• Refresh Data Protection roadmap/s quarterly

Define plan and roadmap for dashboard automation and service now intake process and report weekly progress against plan