Databricks Administrator

COVET IT INC; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

COVET IT INC is seeking a senior Databricks Administrator in Dallas, TX, to design, implement, and maintain the Databricks platform, while providing operational support to data engineering and ML teams.

You will install, configure, and optimize clusters and workspaces, ensure security and compliance, monitor performance and costs, and work with APIs to enable analytics and data engineering workflows. Strong Python, PySpark, SQL, and AWS knowledge are essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Databricks administration experience.
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining the Databricks platform with operational support.
• Security, compliance, and patching best practices knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain the Databricks platform and provide operational support.
• Set up and configure Databricks environments, manage workspaces and resources.
• Assist data engineering, data science/ML, and integration teams; perform restores and troubleshoot issues.
• Manage access controls and security policies for sensitive data.

Skills

Databricks

AWS

pySpark

Python

SQL

Unity Catalog

APIs

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

AWS services

Databricks APIs

SQL

Job description

Duration : Contract - Long Term

Job Description:

Job duties:

• Databricks Administrator with 8 + years of relevant experience.
• Responsibilities will include designing, implementing, and maintaining the Databricks platform, and providing operational support.
• Operational support responsibilities include platform set-up and configuration, workspace administration, resource monitoring, providing technical support to data engineering, Data Science/ML, and Application/integration teams, performing restores/recoveries, troubleshooting service issues, determining the root causes of issues, and resolving issues,
• Assist in the deployment and configuration of Databricks environments, ensuring alignment with best practices for security and performance.
• Responsible for the administration, configuration, and optimization of the Databricks platform to enable data analytics, machine learning, and data engineering activities within the organization.
• Install, configure, and maintain Databricks clusters and workspaces.
• Maintain Platform currency with security, compliance, and patching best practices.
• Monitor and manage cluster performance, resource utilization, platform costs, and troubleshoot issues to ensure optimal performance.
• Implement and manage access controls and security policies to protect sensitive data.
• Manage schema data with Unity Catalog - create, configure, catalog, external storage, and access permissions.
• Manage AWS resources related to Databricks and networking configurations
• Strong understanding of data engineering needs
• Strong understanding of aws infrastructure required by Databricks
• Experience with compliance audits/audit documentation
• Experience using Databricks APIs , system tables for creating admin related queries and dashboards
• Understanding of the Databricks workspace and development environment
• Proficiency in pySpark, Python, SQL and aws