Databricks Platform Engineer

Job summary

The Databricks Platform Engineer at Salas O’Brien is responsible for administering the Databricks platform, ensuring its scalability, security, and performance. This hands-on technical role involves managing infrastructure through code, advising teams on best practices, and keeping the platform current with emerging capabilities.

Qualifications

• Deep, current, production-level Databricks administration experience on AWS
• Experience designing and managing Unity Catalog in a multi-workspace environment
• Demonstrated experience developing catalog structures and access-control models
• Experience integrating Databricks with Microsoft Entra ID
• Strong Terraform and CI/CD experience
• Working knowledge of cloud networking concepts
• Ability to build partnerships with IT Infrastructure and Security teams
• Sound judgment in determining appropriate platform approaches
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• Administer the Databricks platform across multiple environments
• Manage identity and access
• Partner with IT Infrastructure and Security
• Manage infrastructure and workloads through code
• Establish and maintain cost-governance practices
• Serve as a trusted architecture advisor
• Provide practical and technically sound recommendations
• Evaluate emerging platform capabilities

Skills

Relocation