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Because it takes human intelligence to build and power the systems and solutions that people depend on every day. So we stay curious and make space for diverse points of view. We share what we know and we challenge what’s possible.

We’re driving progress in some of the world’s most important industries - from the bottom of the oceans to the depths of space and cyberspace - and from manufacturing to engineering, we work together to build a future we can all trust.

Imperva, a Thales company, is a globally recognized cybersecurity leader, dedicated to securing data and applications across diverse environments. Our cutting-edge solutions empower organizations to safeguard their most critical assets, ensuring robust protection against emerging threats.

Cybersecurity & Database Protection Engineer, Enterprise Services

Imperva, a Thales company, is a globally recognized cybersecurity leader, dedicated to securing data and applications across diverse environments. Our cutting-edge solutions empower organizations to safeguard their most critical assets, ensuring robust protection against emerging threats.

Cybersecurity & Database Protection Engineer, Enterprise Services

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

Position Summary

Our partners and customers are interested in optimizing their incident response, security analysis and improved user experience with the Imperva platform and product suites. As a Cybersecurity Engineer, you will be on the front lines providing world-class support as an Enterprise Services Engineer. You will help organizations understand Imperva’s various product platforms, such as Application Security and Data Security. Your mission is to help customers improve their security postures and seamlessly migrate existing pipelines and workloads to Imperva. You will act as a premier problem solver, identifying complex challenges and advocating innovative solutions on behalf of the customer.

Key Areas of Responsibility

Technical Management & Optimization

• Product Administration: Maintain the core Imperva product stack on behalf of enterprise customers, managing tasks from custom rule creation to comprehensive event analysis.

• Policy Tuning: Optimize and fine-tune security and audit rules across deployed Imperva solutions to minimize false positives and maximize threat detection.

• Deployment & Setup: Lead the technical configuration, physical or cloud installation, and baseline setup of Imperva platforms for new and existing accounts.

• Health Monitoring: Conduct periodic system health checks and structured service reviews to ensure peak operational performance and platform stability.

Incident Response & Support Escalation

• Threat Mitigation: Perform rapid incident response and detailed root-cause analysis during active security events.

• Advanced Troubleshooting: Serve as the resident subject matter expert in diagnosing and resolving complex, deep-tier technical issues within Imperva ecosystems.

• Case Champion: Accelerate time-to-resolution for critical support tickets, driving internal visibility onto deployment friction and customer pain points.

• Global Collaboration: Partner with cross-functional teams including customers, partners, account managers, and global engineering teams.

Relationship & Account Consulting

• Strategic Advisory: Build long-term technical relationships with enterprise stakeholders, assisting them with infrastructure design, roadmap planning, and deployment consulting.

• Environment Assessment: Evaluate customer technical environments and security architectures to align product delivery with organizational requirements.

• Customer Success: Support a diverse portfolio of active and onboarding customers, ensuring seamless retention and continuous platform adoption.

Leadership & Business Operations

• Team Leadership: Provide day-to-day oversight, technical leadership, and operational supervision for the EMEA Enterprise Services engineering team.

• Talent Development: Train, mentor, and coach junior and mid-level engineers to elevate collective technical capability across the department.

• Operational Excellence: Assist management with tracking departmental KPIs, executing net-new strategic initiatives, and scaling the Enterprise Services program.

• Commercial Alignment: Collaborate directly with Sales, Renewals, and Customer Success Management (CSM) teams to drive Enterprise Services adoption and support the active sales cycle.

Requirements

• Core Expertise: At least 3 years of experience in a Data Security/Auditing position (e.g. Imperva, Guardium or other DAM solutions), preferably in a customer-facing role.

• Database & Query: Working knowledge of SQL and MongoDB queries across databases like MSSQL, Oracle and MySQL, both on-prem and cloud (e.g. AWS RDS, Azure SQL).

• Additional Experience: Minimum of 2 years in application or network security within a technical, customer-facing role.

• Application Security: Understanding of the OWASP Top Ten web application and API vulnerabilities.

• Networking Protocols: Solid understanding of TCP, HTTP/S, SSL/TLS, DNS, Reverse Proxies and Firewalls.

• Operating Systems: Hands-on experience with Linux-based operating systems.

• Scripting Skills: Experience with common scripting languages such as Bash and Python.

• Infrastructure Architecture: Experience analyzing complex deployments across both on-premises and cloud infrastructures.

• Soft Skills: Advanced interpersonal, communication, analytical, critical thinking, and technical writing skills.

• Availability: Flexibility to participate in a scheduled, rotating on-call shift roster.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Computer Science, Telecommunications, or a related technology field.

Additional Preferred Experience

• Technical Communication: Ability to articulate complex security concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Cloud Architecture: Familiarity with major public cloud platforms, with a strong preference for AWS (Azure and GCP are a plus).

• Pattern Matching: Practical knowledge and ability to parse data by constructing and interpreting regular expressions (Regex).

Special Position Requirements

Operational Schedule: Participation in a rotating on-call roster, requiring occasional paid weekend and holiday shifts (averaging once per month). Working Days: Primarily Monday to Friday, subject to operational changes. We are working in a hybrid working model: Tel Aviv office/work from home

• The role may require security clearance process

Thales, champions inclusion and we believe diversity strengthens the fabric of our culture. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, colour, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.