Databricks DBA/Administrator/SME

Konane Solutions

United States

8 days ago

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Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Experience required

10 years minimum

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

www.dice.com

Tech stack

Unity 3d Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Amazon Web Services Audit Trail Command-Line Interface Cloud Computing Information Systems Databases Continuous Integration Information Engineering Data Governance Data Infrastructure

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Data Security Identity and Access Management Python (Programming Language) Metadata Performance Tuning SQL Databases Data Logging Scripting Sql Optimization Git Data Lakes Information Technology Terraform Databricks

Job description

The Senior SME - Databricks DBA / Administrator serves as the senior technical authority for administration, security, governance, performance, and reliability of an enterprise Databricks environment supporting federal analytics workloads. The role combines hands-on platform administration with technical leadership, automation, operational support, and cloud/data governance expertise., * Administer Databricks workspaces, compute, SQL warehouses, jobs/workflows, users, groups, service principals, policies, and platform configurations.

Administer Databricks SQL, Delta Lake objects, catalogs, schemas, tables, views, permissions, and performance tuning for large analytical workloads.
Implement and manage Unity Catalog governance, lineage, metadata, access controls, secure data sharing, and least-privilege permissions.
Automate platform provisioning and administration using Terraform, Databricks APIs/CLI, Python, Git, and CI/CD pipelines.
Integrate Databricks with AWS networking, IAM, storage, secrets, logging, monitoring, and enterprise security services.
Monitor platform health and cost, troubleshoot complex production issues, lead root-cause analysis, and establish operational standards and runbooks.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Database Administration, or a related technical field.
10+ years of database, data platform, cloud, or infrastructure experience, including significant hands-on Databricks administration experience.
Expert knowledge of Databricks administration, Databricks SQL, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, advanced SQL, and performance optimization.
Strong AWS, IAM, networking, security, monitoring, Terraform, Python/scripting, Git, and CI/CD experience.
Experience with enterprise data governance, access control, audit logging, availability, incident response, and cost optimization.
Experience supporting federal or regulated environments and familiarity with FISMA, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, and ATO processes.
Preferred certifications include Databricks Data Engineer, AWS, Terraform, CISSP/Security+, or comparable credentials.