Databricks Platform Engineer/Admin

Job Description

Job Description

This is a remote position.

Location: Remote – United States

Security Clearance: Active Secret or higher REQUIRED

Our client, a growing technology services organization supporting federal government programs, is seeking an experienced Senior Databricks Platform Engineer / Administrator to help design, deploy, govern, and support enterprise Databricks environments for a federal client.

Candidates must currently hold an ACTIVE Secret security clearance or higher . Candidates without an active Secret-level clearance cannot be considered.

The ideal candidate will bring deep hands-on experience building and administering Databricks platforms, particularly within AWS environments, with strong expertise in infrastructure automation, networking, governance, security, CI/CD, and platform operations.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and configure Databricks workspaces from the ground up using Terraform and Databricks Secure Reference Architecture across development, test, and production environments.
  
• Support Databricks deployments within AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud environments.
  
• Design and implement supporting AWS networking architecture, including VPCs, subnets, PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, security groups, and DNS.
  
• Manage Databricks control-plane and data-plane connectivity.
  
• Administer Unity Catalog, including metastores, catalogs, schemas, external locations, permissions, grants, and row- and column-level security.
  
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting infrastructure deployment and Databricks Asset Bundles.
  
• Establish platform governance standards, architectural guardrails, tagging strategies, naming conventions, and operating best practices.
  
• Automate provisioning and administration of cluster policies, secrets, service principals, SSO, and SCIM integrations.
  
• Monitor platform health, utilization, performance, and cost.
  
• Identify opportunities for rightsizing, cost optimization, and improved platform efficiency.
  
• Serve as an escalation point for platform incidents, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
  
• Partner with technical and business stakeholders to provide guidance on platform architecture, governance, security, and operational decisions.
  

Requirements

• Active Secret security clearance or higher is required.
  
• U.S. citizenship required.
  
• 6+ years of experience engineering, administering, or supporting Databricks platforms.
  
• Strong hands-on experience with Databricks in AWS environments.
  
• Advanced Terraform experience supporting infrastructure such as networking, IAM, compute, and storage.
  
• Strong knowledge of Databricks Secure Reference Architecture.
  
• Hands-on Unity Catalog administration experience.
  
• Experience with Databricks Asset Bundles or comparable deployment automation frameworks.
  
• Strong understanding of CI/CD practices and infrastructure-as-code methodologies.
  
• Python proficiency.
  
• Linux systems administration experience.
  

• Hands-on experience with AWS services including:
  

  • VPC
    
  • IAM
    
  • S3
    
  • KMS
    
  • EC2
    
  • CloudWatch
    
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis capabilities.
  
• Strong communication skills with the ability to advise stakeholders on technical and platform decisions.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS GovCloud experience.
  
• Experience working within regulated, security-sensitive, or compliance-heavy environments.
  
• Experience supporting FISMA High, FedRAMP High, or comparable federal security standards.
  
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.