Overview
Remote
$50 - $60
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)
No Travel Required
Skills
Access Control
Management
RBAC
PySpark
Optimization
Databricks
Regulatory Compliance
Auditing
Billing
IP
Intellectual Property
Orchestration
Provisioning
Query Optimization
Unity
Job Details
Job Title: Databricks Platform Administrator
Location: Remote (Eastern Time)
Duration: 12+ Months
Exp:- 10+ years
About the Role:
We are seeking an experienced Databricks Platform Administrator to oversee and optimize Databricks environments. The ideal candidate will have hands-on expertise in managing workspaces, access controls, clusters, and platform governance while ensuring performance, security, and cost efficiency.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Workspace & Access Management
- Create and manage Unity Catalog, workspaces, SCIM provisioning, and entitlements.
- Implement and maintain role-based access control (RBAC) for users, groups, service principals, and data access.
- Oversee permissions for notebooks, clusters, jobs, and other workspace assets.
- Compute & Cluster Management
- Configure and manage compute resources including job clusters, interactive clusters, cluster policies, and autoscaling.
- Optimize costs through instance pooling, spot instances, and cluster utilization best practices.
- Perform query tuning, optimization, and efficient job orchestration.
- Platform Monitoring & Governance
- Monitor and maintain platform health using audit logs, diagnostic tools, and billing usage reports.
- Implement and manage alerting, compliance, and security policies (e.g., IP access lists, credential passthrough, secret scopes).
- Define tagging policies for better resource organization and cost tracking.
Nice to Have:
Working knowledge of PySpark for troubleshooting and support
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