Platform Administrator

Description
Seeking two Associate Level Platform Admins with experience in Databricks.
The Platform Administrator supports the design, operations, and governance of the organization's Databricks and Azure-based data platform. This role focuses heavily on Databricks platform administration, including cluster configuration, Unity Catalog permissions, workspace management, performance monitoring, and API-driven automation.
The ideal candidate brings a background in cloud engineering with a strong emphasis on Azure, paired with hands-on experience supporting enterprise data platforms. Responsibilities include implementing and refining governance models, administering access controls, optimizing compute environments, and ensuring platform scalability and security.
This role interacts with data engineers, analysts, security teams, and business stakeholders while contributing to both day-to-day operations and long-term platform enhancements. Candidates should be excited about growth, continuous learning, and helping evolve a modern cloud data ecosystem.
Top Skills' Details
Databricks Administration:
- Experience designing, configuring, and maintaining Databricks clusters and workspaces
- Ability to manage compute resources, cluster tags, workflow tags, and naming conventions
- Knowledge of best practices, cluster health checks, monitoring, and performance optimization
- Experience automating admin tasks using Databricks notebooks or scripts
- Understanding of SQL warehouses, Delta Sharing, and service principals
Azure Cloud Engineering:
- Strong understanding of Azure infrastructure required to support Databricks
- Experience integrating Databricks with Azure resources securely
- Ability to perform risk analysis for third-party integrations
- Familiarity with backup/recovery processes in cloud environments
- Understanding differences between Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform
API Experience:
- Ability to use Databricks APIs (Postman, automation scripts, custom integrations)
- Knowledge of API-based authentication models (PATs, service principals, tokens)
- Understanding of how APIs support automation, provisioning, monitoring, and governance
Unity Catalog:
- Understanding of how permissions work across catalogs, schemas, tables, and volumes
- Ability to manage role-based access control and oversee privilege reviews
- Experience implementing and enforcing data access governance policies
- Knowledge of external access control patterns (service principals, SQL warehouses)
Skills
Databricks, azure, api, power bi, Azure data factory, github, sql, spark, Python, dynatrace
Top Skills Details
Databricks,azure,api
Additional Skills & Qualifications
Secondary Skills - Nice to Haves:
- Power BI exposure (dashboards, reporting)
- Azure Data Factory (pipelines, integration runtimes)
- Experience with GitHub for source code management
- Strong SQL skills for admin queries and dashboards
- Familiarity with Dynatrace (monitoring/observability)
- Experience supporting compliance audits or audit documentation
- Spark, Python proficiency (beneficial for notebooks & automation)
Additional Skills & Qualifications:
- Associate: 3-5 years of relevant data/cloud engineering or platform experience
- Deeper experience with Databricks administration and Azure architecture
- Bachelor's degree preferred but experience may substitute
- Databricks Platform Administration certification preferred
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills
- Ability to create dashboards and monitoring queries for critical systems
- Experience maintaining documentation and supporting users
- Strong communication and teamwork skills, including working cross-functionally
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Appleton, WI.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $40.00 - $55.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) Short and long-term disability Health Spending Account (HSA) Transportation benefits Employee Assistance Program Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a fully remote position.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Feb 10, 2026.
>About TEKsystems:
We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

We're a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We're a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We're strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We're building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.