Databricks Platform Ops Lead — Flexible Work & Impact

Coleambally; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional development programs

Flexible work arrangements

Parental leave

Employee Assistance Program

Diversity & inclusion

Job summary

Downer is seeking an experienced Databricks Platform Operations Lead to govern and operate a enterprise Azure Databricks Lakehouse platform. Lead reliability, security and performance across analytics, AI and reporting, collaborating with data engineering, analytics and cloud teams.

You will drive operational excellence, manage incidents, upgrades and vendor relationships, ensuring a secure, well-governed and highly available platform to support business-critical workloads.

Qualifications

• 7+ years' experience in data/platform or infra operations.
• Proven experience supporting enterprise Azure Databricks environments.
• 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 and maintain operational runbooks, procedures and support processes.
• Ensure ITIL-aligned service management practices are embedded across the platform.
• Oversee Unity Catalog administration, data governance and access management.
• Coordinate platform upgrades, feature releases and vendor roadmap adoption.
• Oversee Azure resources supporting the data platform and cloud infrastructure.

Skills

Databricks platform operations

Stakeholder management

Incident management

Platform governance

Security governance

Tools

Azure Databricks

Unity Catalog

Delta Lake

Apache Spark

Python

SQL

Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Lake Storage

GitHub / Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Job description

Downer is seeking an experienced Databricks Platform Operations Lead to govern and operate a enterprise Azure Databricks Lakehouse platform. Lead reliability, security and performance across analytics, AI and reporting, collaborating with data engineering, analytics and cloud teams.

You will drive operational excellence, manage incidents, upgrades and vendor relationships, ensuring a secure, well-governed and highly available platform to support business-critical workloads.