Databricks Platform Engineer

Databricks Platform Engineer


Job Summary


The Databricks Platform Engineer builds and runs the platform everyone else builds on. This role provisions and hardens workspaces, automates the environment, manages access and identity integration, and keeps the platform reliable, observable, and predictable as adoption grows. The work sits at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, DevOps practice, and Databricks administration.


Key Responsibilities

• Provision and configure Databricks accounts, workspaces, metastores, and compute policies through infrastructure as code

• Integrate identity, single sign on, and SCIM provisioning with the enterprise directory

• Define and enforce cluster policies, instance pools, and serverless configuration to control cost and standardize compute

• Manage secrets, credential passthrough, service principals, and network configuration including private connectivity

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for notebooks, jobs, and Databricks Asset Bundles

• Implement platform observability covering job health, cluster utilization, audit logs, and system tables

• Run platform upgrades, runtime version strategy, and change management

• Serve as escalation point for platform level incidents and performance issues

Required Skills

• 5+ years in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, or DevOps, including 2+ years administering Databricks

• Strong Terraform experience, including the Databricks provider

• Working command of at least one major cloud covering networking, IAM, storage, and private endpoints

• Scripting in Python and Bash

• Experience with Git based workflows and CI/CD tooling such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or GitLab

• Understanding of Unity Catalog administration, including metastore setup and privilege management

Preferred Skills

• Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate or Platform Administrator credential

• Experience with Databricks system tables for cost and usage reporting

• Kubernetes, Docker, and container based delivery experience

• Prior work in a regulated environment with formal change control

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