Databricks Administrator (TX, CA)

Role: Databricks Administrator

Work location: Dallas TX/ LA CA

Rate: $60 C2C Not Negotiable

Job duties:

• Databricks Administrator with 8 + years of relevant experience.
• Responsibilities will include designing, implementing, and maintaining the Databricks platform, and providing operational support.
• Operational support responsibilities include platform set-up and configuration, workspace administration, resource monitoring, providing technical support to data engineering, Data Science/ML, and Application/integration teams, performing restores/recoveries, troubleshooting service issues, determining the root causes of issues, and resolving issues,
• Assist in thedeployment and configuration of Databricks environments, ensuring alignment with best practices for security and performance.
• Responsible for the administration, configuration, and optimization of the Databricks platform to enable data analytics, machine learning, and data engineering activities within the organization.
• Install, configure, and maintain Databricks clusters and workspaces.
• Maintain Platform currency with security, compliance, and patching best practices.
• Monitor and manage cluster performance, resource utilization, platform costs, and troubleshoot issues to ensure optimal performance.
• Implement and manage access controls and security policies to protect sensitive data.
• Manage schema data with Unity Catalog - create, configure, catalog, external storage, and access permissions.
• Manage AWS resources related to Databricks and networking configurations

Technical Competencies:

• Strong understanding of data engineering needs
• Strong understanding of aws infrastructure required by Databricks
• Experience with compliance audits/audit documentation
• Experience using Databricks APIs , system tables for creating admin related queries and dashboards
• Understanding of the Databricks workspace and development environment
• Strong debugging skills
• Proficiency inpySpark, Python, SQL and aws