Databricks Platform Administrator
Role: Databricks Platform Administrator Location: Remote Duration: Long term
Job Description
We are seeking a Senior Databricks Platform Administrator with strong hands-on experience managing enterprise Databricks environments, with a heavy focus on Unity Catalog, security, governance, workspace administration, and platform operations. Required Skills 8+ years of Cloud, Data Platform, DevOps, or Platform Engineering experience. 5+ years of hands-on Databricks administration in enterprise environments. Strong experience implementing, configuring, and administering Unity Catalog. Hands-on experience managing catalogs, schemas, tables, views, external locations, storage credentials, and data permissions. Strong knowledge of RBAC, users, groups, service principals, authentication, authorization, and access controls. Experience managing Databricks workspaces, clusters, cluster policies, SQL warehouses, jobs, and compute resources. Experience integrating Databricks with Azure ADLS and cloud IAM/security services. Strong troubleshooting skills across Databricks permissions, connectivity, clusters, jobs, performance, and platform issues. Experience implementing Databricks security, governance, and enterprise data access standards. Hands-on experience with Terraform/IaC, Databricks CLI/APIs, Python, and automation. Strong understanding of Delta Lake and the Databricks Lakehouse Platform. Experience supporting multiple Databricks workspaces/environments, including development, QA, and production. Preferred Databricks certification. Experience with Databricks Account Console/account-level administration. Experience establishing enterprise-wide Unity Catalog governance and security standards. Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps. Experience with cloud networking, private connectivity, and enterprise identity platforms.