AWS Databricks Platform Support Architect

Galent; Raritan (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Galent seeks an AWS Databricks Platform Support Architect to lead the administration, support, governance, and optimization of enterprise Databricks platforms on AWS from our Raritan, NJ area office. You will own platform reliability, security, automation, performance, and production support across environments, coordinating with Data Engineering, Cloud, and Security teams.

Responsibilities include managing workspaces, clusters, jobs, Unity Catalog, and access controls, providing L2/L3 incident

Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT experience with at least 4+ years of Databricks administration and support.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud platforms and enterprise production support environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Architect and support AWS Databricks environments across Dev, QA, UAT, and Production.
• Manage Databricks workspaces, clusters, jobs, workflows, Unity Catalog, and access controls.
• Provide L2/L3 production support, incident management, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
• Implement governance, security, IAM, RBAC, monitoring, and compliance controls.
• Optimize platform performance, scalability, and cloud costs.
• Automate deployments using Terraform, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Collaborate with Data Engineering, Cloud, and Security teams on platform enhancements.

Skills

Databricks Workspace Administration

Unity Catalog

Jobs & Workflows

AWS Services: S3, IAM, EC2, Lambda,...

PySpark

SQL

Data Lake / Lakehouse Architecture

Terraform

GitHub

Jenkins

CI/CD

Python

Shell Scripting

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Jenkins

CI/CD

Job description

Job Title: AWS Databricks Platform Support Architect

Location: Raritan, New Jersey

Job Summary

• Lead the administration, support, governance, and optimization of enterprise Databricks platforms on AWS.
• Responsible for platform reliability, security, automation, performance, and production support across enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and support AWS Databricks environments across Dev, QA, UAT, and Production.
• Manage Databricks workspaces, clusters, jobs, workflows, Unity Catalog, and access controls.
• Provide L2/L3 production support, incident management, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
• Implement governance, security, IAM, RBAC, monitoring, and compliance controls.
• Optimize platform performance, scalability, and cloud costs.
• Automate deployments using Terraform, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Collaborate with Data Engineering, Cloud, and Security teams on platform enhancements.

Required Skills

• Databricks Workspace Administration
• Unity Catalog
• Jobs & Workflows
• AWS Services: S3, IAM, EC2, Lambda, Glue, CloudWatch, VPC, Secrets Manager
• PySpark
• SQL
• Data Lake / Lakehouse Architecture
• Terraform
• GitHub
• Jenkins
• CI/CD
• Python
• Shell Scripting

Preferred Skills

• AWS EMR
• AWS Glue
• AWS S3
• Databricks

Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT experience with at least 4+ years of Databricks administration and support experience.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud platforms and enterprise production support environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.

Preferred Certifications

• AWS Solutions Architect – Professional
• Databricks Certified Professional Admin
• Terraform Associate

Work Mode

• 4 days per week onsite in the Raritan, New Jersey office.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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