Databricks Admin

Infosys; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT services company in Bengaluru is seeking a Databricks Administrator with 5-9 years of experience to configure and maintain Databricks workspaces. The role involves monitoring performance, implementing governance strategies, and automating tasks. The ideal candidate will have expertise in user management and troubleshooting, with a relevant Databricks certification. Join a dynamic team focused on data and analytics, with opportunities for growth and development.

Qualifications

• 5-9 years of overall IT experience.
• Hands-on experience administering Databricks environments.
• Relevant Databricks certification or strong expertise.

Responsibilities

• Configure and manage Databricks workspaces and clusters.
• Implement user provisioning and access control.
• Monitor cluster performance and optimize costs.
• Troubleshoot platform issues and perform root-cause analysis.
• Automate administrative tasks using scripts.
• Provide L2/L3 support for Databricks-related incidents.
• Enforce lifecycle policies and support audits.
• Manage integrations with enterprise tools.

Skills

Databricks administration

Scripting (Bash, PowerShell)

User and access management

Performance tuning

Troubleshooting platform issues

Education

Bachelor of Engineering

Job description

Educational Requirements

Bachelor of Engineering

Service Line

Data & Analytics Unit

Responsibilities

• Databricks Platform Administration: Configure, manage, and maintain Databricks workspaces, clusters, pools, and jobs across environments (dev/test/prod) for 5??9 years?? scale and complexity.
• Security & Governance: Implement and manage user provisioning, access control (ACLs), secret scopes, and workspace permissions in alignment with organizational security policies.
• Performance & Cost Optimization: Monitor cluster performance, right‑size compute, optimize autoscaling, and implement cost‑control strategies and tagging standards.
• Reliability & Operations: Set up and manage monitoring, alerting, and logging; troubleshoot platform issues; perform root‑cause analysis and drive permanent fixes.
• Automation & Tooling: Automate provisioning, configuration, and maintenance tasks using scripts and CI/CD pipelines; standardize reusable configurations and templates.
• Collaboration & Support: Partner with data engineers and analytics teams to enable best practices for notebooks, jobs, and libraries; provide L2/L3 support for Databricks‑related incidents.
• Compliance & Standards: Enforce workspace standards, naming conventions, and lifecycle policies; support audits and documentation of platform configurations and changes.
• Integration & Environment Management: Coordinate Databricks integration with other enterprise tools and services; manage upgrades, new feature rollouts, and environment migrations.

Technical and Professional Requirements

• Experience: 5??9 years of overall IT experience with substantial hands‑on experience administering Databricks environments in production.
• Core Expertise: Proven experience in Databricks workspace and cluster administration, user and access management, job scheduling, and environment configuration.
• Platform Operations: Demonstrated ability to monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve Databricks platform issues, including performance tuning and stability improvements.
• Scripting & Automation: Practical experience with scripting (e.g., Bash, PowerShell, or similar) for automating Databricks administrative tasks.
• Certification: Relevant Databricks certification (e.g., Databricks Administrator or equivalent) or strong demonstrable expertise in Databricks administration.

Preferred Skills

• Technology->Data Engineering->Databricks

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