Senior Specialist - Data Engineering

Role description

Job Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Azure Databricks Platform Administrator to design operate secure and optimize enterprise scale Databricks environments on Microsoft Azure. The role is responsible for platform governance workspace administration identity and access management networking security monitoring automation cost optimization and production support The ideal candidate combines strong Azure infrastructure knowledge with Handson Databricks administration and works effectively with data engineering analytics security cloud and application teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Administer Azure Databricks accounts workspaces clusters cluster policies pools SQL warehouses jobs notebooks repositories libraries and access controls across development test and production environments.


• Manage workspace provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code and automated deployment pipelines.


• Implement identity and access management through Microsoft Entra ID single sign on service principals managed identities groups role-based access control and SCIM provisioning.


• Administer Unity CatLog including metastores catalogs schemas tables volumes storage credential’s external locations privileges and data access governance.


• Configure secure Azure networking including virtual network injection private endpoints Private Link network security groups route tables DNS firewalls and controlled egress


• Integrate Databricks with Azure Data Lake Storage Key Vault Azure DevOps or GitHub monitoring platforms and other approved enterprise services.


• Establish cluster standards runtime policies library controls tagging autoscaling auto termination and workload isolation.


• Monitor platform availability performance capacity audit logs job health and security events build dashboards and actionable s.


• Lead incident problem change release and service request management for the platform meeting agreed service levels and operational KPIs.


• Troubleshoot complex workspace compute authentication authorization connectivity storage Spark and integration issues.


• Optimize platform cost through usage analysis rightsizing policy enforcement commitment utilization charge back show back and removal of idle resources.


• Plan and execute Databricks Runtime upgrades platform changes vulnerability remediation business continuity testing and disaster recovery activities.


• Define and maintain platform standards runbooks architecture diagrams operating procedures support documentation and knowledge articles.


• Partner with engineering architecture security compliance FinOps and vendor teams to onboard workloads and drive continuous improvement.


• Mentor junior administrators and provide technical leadership for platform operations and governance.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• 5-12 years of experience in cloud data platform infrastructure DevOps or production support roles including substantial Handson administration of Azure Databricks.


• Strong understanding of Azure Databricks architecture control plane and data plane concepts workspaces compute jobs SQL warehouses Delta Lake and Unity CatLog.


• Handson experience with core Azure services such as Microsoft Entra ID Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Key Vault Virtual Network Private Link Azure Monitor Log Analytics and Azure DevOps.


• Strong knowledge of cloud security least privilege access secrets management encryption network isolation auditability and enterprise governance.


• Experience automating Azure and Databricks administration using Terraform Bicep or ARM templates Databricks Asset Bundles Azure CLI Databricks CLI REST APIs PowerShell Python or shell scripting


• Experience building and supporting CICD pipelines for infrastructure and platform configuration


• Working knowledge of Apache Spark Python SQL Delta Lake and common data engineering workload patterns.


• Strong troubleshooting skills across identity networking compute storage security and distributed data processing layers.


• Experience operating production platforms using ITIL aligned incident problem change release capacity and service level management practices.


• Databricks Account Console workspace administration compute cluster policies jobs SQL warehouses Unity Catalog Delta Lake audit logs system tables authentication and REST APIs.


• Azure Entra ID ADLS Gen2 Key Vault Virtual Network Private Link Azure Monitor Log Analytics Azure Policy and Azure DevOps.


• Automation and DevOps Terraform Bicep or ARM Git CICD Databricks Asset Bundles PowerShell Python shell scripting and com.