Lead Platform Administrator

CliftonLarsonAllen LLP
Milwaukee, United States of America
yesterday

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Milwaukee, United States of America

Tech stack

Data analysis
Continuous Integration
Data Governance
DevOps
Reliability Engineering
SQL Databases
Enterprise Data Management
Cloud Platform System
Kubernetes
Information Technology
Tools for Reporting
User Administration
Databricks

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.

About the company

CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. Even with more than 8,500 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you. CLA is dedicated to building a culture that invites different beliefs and perspectives to the table, so we can truly know and help our clients, communities, and each other.

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