Databricks Platform Operations Lead – Reliability & Governance

Downer; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional development

Flexible work arrangements

Parental leave

Employee Assistance Program

Diversity & inclusion

Corporate benefits

Job summary

Downer in Sydney seeks an experienced Databricks Platform Operations Lead to drive reliability, governance, and security of our enterprise Azure Databricks Lakehouse. You will lead incident response, capacity planning and cost optimization across data teams.

Reporting to Head of Data Platforms, you will mentor operations staff, collaborate with data engineering, analytics and cloud infra teams, and ensure platform SLAs and ITIL practices are embedded.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in data platform, cloud platform or infrastructure operations.
• Experience managing production support and operational service delivery teams.
• Strong understanding of Databricks Lakehouse architecture, Unity Catalog and Delta Lake.
• Experience with Azure services including Data Factory, Data Lake Storage, Key Vault and networking.
• Experience implementing security, governance and access management frameworks.
• Experience managing vendors and outsourced support providers.
• Strong incident, problem and change management capabilities.
• Experience leading service improvement and operational excellence initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Own the operational health and performance of the Databricks platform.
• Lead incident, problem and change management processes.
• Manage platform monitoring, alerting and service reliability.
• Drive platform stability, availability and performance improvements.
• Establish runbooks, procedures and support processes.
• Ensure ITIL-aligned service management practices are embedded across the platform.

Skills

Databricks Lakehouse

Azure Databricks

ITIL governance

Vendor management

Incident management

Security governance

DevOps/DataOps

Monitoring

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Data Lake Storage

Key Vault

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Downer in Sydney seeks an experienced Databricks Platform Operations Lead to drive reliability, governance, and security of our enterprise Azure Databricks Lakehouse. You will lead incident response, capacity planning and cost optimization across data teams.

Reporting to Head of Data Platforms, you will mentor operations staff, collaborate with data engineering, analytics and cloud infra teams, and ensure platform SLAs and ITIL practices are embedded.