Data Platform Administrator

About the role

Seeking a proactive Data Platform Administrator to manage, monitor, and optimize cloud data platform environment. Responsibilities include managing Databricks workspaces, clusters, pools, and jobs; monitoring performance, usage, and costs; configuring RBAC and audit logging; developing CI/CD pipelines; automating cluster lifecycle; supporting data scientists, engineers, and analysts; troubleshooting failures and bottlenecks; integrating Databricks with Azure Data Lake, Power BI, Dataverse; collaborating with data engineering and analytics teams. Qualifications: proven experience administering big data platforms in production; strong understanding of Apache Spark and distributed computing; experience with Azure (preferred), AWS or GCP; familiarity with Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Lakehouse architecture; proficiency in Python, SQL, shell scripting; experience with CI/CD tools and IaC (Terraform); excellent problem‑solving and communication skills.

What you’ll do

• Manage workspaces, clusters, pools, jobs in Databricks
• Monitor performance, usage, costs; optimize clusters
• Configure RBAC, audit logging; ensure compliance
• Develop CI/CD pipelines for notebooks, jobs, libraries
• Automate cluster lifecycle, job scheduling
• Support data scientists, engineers, analysts
• Troubleshoot job failures, bottlenecks, integration issues
• Integrate Databricks with Azure Data Lake, Power BI, Dataverse
• Collaborate with data engineering and analytics teams

What you’ll bring

• Proven experience administering big data platforms in production
• Strong understanding of Apache Spark and distributed computing
• Experience with Azure (preferred), AWS or GCP
• Familiarity with Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Lakehouse architecture
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, shell scripting
• Experience with CI/CD tools and IaC (Terraform)
• Excellent problem‑solving and communication skills

Skills

Benefits

• Healthcare coverage
• Retirement plan
• Paid volunteering days