Lead Platform Administrator
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Job description
*Oversee design, implementation, and maintenance of cloud data platform compute, clusters, and workloads; ensure platform scalability, performance, and security.
*Develop and enforce platform administration policies and procedures; align capabilities with business goals in partnership with leadership.
*Provide escalated support and troubleshooting; oversee data governance, access control, and catalog services, including external access controls such as service principals, SQL warehouses, Delta Sharing, and equivalent platform capabilities.
*Drive continuous improvement of infrastructure, user management, and external access processes, review documentation quality.
*Oversee creation of monitoring queries/dashboards; enforce tagging and naming standards; review cluster health and bestpractice compliance.
*Ensure regular backups/recovery and recurring privilege reviews; stay current on Databricks/cloud trends.
*Provide daytoday leadership providing coaching, development, and performance management.
*Define and enforce platform DevOps standards, including CI/CD, infrastructureascode, environment promotion, and automated compliance controls across the platform ecosystem.
Requirements
6 years of relevant experience required, Supervisory experience a plus
Bachelor's degree is required. Combination of relevant experience, education, and training may be accepted in lieu of degree. Degree in computer science preferred Technical Competencies
- Deep understanding of enterprise data, analytics, and compute platforms, including cloud data services, analytics tools, and Kubernetes environments.
- Ability to define and enforce platform standards for security, governance, automation, CI/CD, and operational excellence.
- Experience leading DevOps and platform engineering practices, including infrastructureascode and environment lifecycle management.
- Strong knowledge of cloud cost management, scalability, and reliability engineering.
- Ability to evaluate and guide adoption of emerging platform technologies.