Azure Databricks Infrastructure Engineer

Cayuse Holdings; King of Prussia (PA); On-site; USD 94,000 - 99,000; Full time

Job summary

Cayuse Holdings is seeking an experienced Azure Databricks Infrastructure Engineer in King of Prussia, PA to execute migrations of Databricks environments between Azure tenants. The contractor will specialize in Databricks, Azure cloud services, IAM, networking, data engineering, and platform modernization.

The role emphasizes minimizing risk, downtime, and business disruption while collaborating with architects, platform teams, security organizations, and business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Azure cloud experience.
• 7+ years of Azure Databricks administration and engineering experience.
• Demonstrated experience migrating Azure resources across tenants.
• Experience with large-scale data platform migrations.
• Experience designing secure cloud landing zones.
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience working in regulated enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Migration Planning and execution across Azure tenants.
• Migrate Databricks workspaces, policies, jobs, notebooks, secrets and configurations.
• Validate Unity Catalog, data governance, and permissions.
• Develop and apply IaC and automation for migrations and compliance.

Skills

Azure

Azure Databricks

Microsoft Entra ID

Azure Virtual Networks

Private Endpoints

Azure Key Vault

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

Delta Lake

Databricks REST APIs

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

PowerShell

Azure CLI

Databricks CLI

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM Templates

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Job description

Overview

JobTitle: Azure Databricks Infrastructure EngineerLocation: King of Prussia, PA

Job Type:Independent Contract (Contractor / Non-Employee)StartDate:ASAP

Pay Rate:$68-72/hr 1099 / C2C

We are seeking an experienced Azure Databricks Infrastructure Engineer to execute migrations of Azure Databricks environments between Azure tenants. The successful candidate will have deep expertise in Databricks, Azure cloud services, identity and access management, networking, data engineering, and platform modernization.

This role is responsible for executing a migration strategy that minimizes risk, downtime, and business disruption.

The ideal candidate will combine strong technical capabilities with consulting skills and be comfortable interacting with architects, platform teams, security organizations, and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Migration Planning

• Analyze tenant-specific dependencies, networking requirements, DNS, Private Endpoints, and identity integrations.
• Define migration waves and cutover strategies.
• Databricks Migration Execution
• Migrate Databricks workspaces between Azure tenants.

Rebuild or migrate:

• Workspaces
• Compute policies
• Job schedules
• Repositories
• Workflows
• Secret scopes
• Access controls
• Migrate notebooks, libraries, packages, and configuration artifacts.
• Validate Unity Catalog and data governance configurations.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code and automation where applicable.
• Security and Identity

Migrate and validate:

• Microsoft Entra ID integrations
• Managed identities
• Service principals
• RBAC assignments
• Databricks groups and permissions
• Coordinate Key Vault migration and secret rotation activities.
• Ensure compliance with Principle of Least Privilege (PLP).
• Support security reviews and governance approvals.
• Data Migration
• Assess and migrate associated datasets and storage integrations.
• Validate Delta Lake tables, metadata, and schemas.
• Develop rollback and recovery procedures.
• Automation and DevOps
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using:
• Terraform
• Bicep
• ARM Templates
• Automate migration and validation activities wherever possible.

Qualifications

Required Technical Skills

• Azure
• Azure Databricks
• Microsoft Entra ID
• Azure Virtual Networks
• Private Endpoints
• Azure Key Vault
• Azure Storage Accounts
• Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
• Azure Monitor
• Log Analytics
• Azure Policy
• Azure RBAC
• Databricks
• Workspace administration
• Unity Catalog
• Delta Lake
• Databricks Repos
• MLflow
• Cluster management
• Cluster policies
• Secret scopes
• Databricks REST APIs
• Automation
• Terraform
• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions
• PowerShell
• Azure CLI
• Databricks CLI

Required Experience

• 10+ years of Azure cloud experience.
• 7+ years of Azure Databricks administration and engineering experience.
• Demonstrated experience migrating Azure resources across tenants.
• Experience with large-scale data platform migrations.
• Experience designing secure cloud landing zones.
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience working in regulated enterprise environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Databricks Administrator Certification
• Databricks Solution Architect Certification
• Experience with Unity Catalog migrations
• Experience with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, or tenant-to-tenant transformations