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# Databricks Platforms Engineer / Admin

- **Company:** Quadrant, Inc.
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $130,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Domain Name System (DNS), Identity and Access Management, Subnetting, Python (Programming Language), Linux System Administration, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Information Technology, Deployment Automation, Cloudwatch, Terraform, Databricks
- **Published:** September 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/job/usb3fc9dd524c8bea5577e82e46612ac14/eaa

## About the Role

6+ years of experience administering/engineering Databricks platforms, ideally within AWS environments.
Strong hands-on Terraform experience across networking, IAM, compute, and storage.
Strong knowledge of Databricks SRA and Unity Catalog administration.
Experience with Databricks Asset Bundles (DABs) or equivalent deployment automation.
Experience with Python and Linux systems administration.
Strong AWS experience, including VPC, IAM, S3, KMS, EC2, and CloudWatch.
AWS GovCloud experience is a plus.
Experience operating in regulated/compliance-heavy environments; FISMA High/FedRAMP High experience is a plus.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field highly preferred.

## Description

Experienced Databricks Platform Engineer, Deploy and administer Databricks workspaces from scratch using Terraform and Databricks SRA on AWS GovCloud/Commercial environments.
Design and implement AWS networking, including VPCs, subnets, PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, security groups, and DNS.
Administer Unity Catalog, including metastores, catalogs, schemas, external locations, grants, and row/column-level security.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and Databricks Asset Bundles (DABs) deployments.
Establish platform governance, security standards, workspace guardrails, tagging, and naming conventions.
Automate provisioning of cluster policies, secrets, service principals, and SSO/SCIM integrations.
Monitor platform health, utilization, and costs and provide FinOps/right-sizing recommendations.
Serve as an escalation point for Databricks platform incidents and perform root-cause analysis.
Quadrant is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a protected veteran, or status as an individual with a disability. "Healthcare benefits are offered to all eligible employees according to compliance mandated by the Affordable Care Act"., AI Engineer 5 (GenAI Platform Services, Agentic Platform) At Capital One, we are creating responsible and reliable AI systems, changing banking for good. For years, Capital One has…

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