Databricks Platform Admin – Data Lakehouse & IAM Pro

SiloSmashers, Inc.; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

SiloSmashers, Inc. is seeking a Databricks Platform Administrator in Alexandria, VA to support a government customer. You will architect, develop, optimize, and maintain high-performance data ingestion, transformation, and analytics pipelines within Databricks Lakehouse environments.

Collaboration with federal teams and cross-functional platform units is essential. The role requires 8+ years of experience with cloud-based data platforms, Databricks administration, and a relevant degree or

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience configuring and implementing cluster/job, pipeline, and SQL warehouse policies.
• Experience implementing SCIM/REST for identity and access management.
• Working knowledge of platform monitoring and observability tools (e.g. Unity Catalog tables, auditing access).
• Experience conducting access and sharing policy audits; enforcing permissions across enterprise platforms.
• Experience applying and enforcing tags for data and resources (compute, jobs, pipelines, Databricks Apps).
• Experience managing workspaces, clusters/pools, jobs, Unity Catalog objects, secret scopes, and cluster policies.
• Experience managing user accounts, service principals, and groups.
• Databricks Certified Platform Administration accreditation required.

Skills

Cluster policies

SQL warehouse policies

Secret scopes

SCIM/REST IAM

Monitoring tools

Policy audits

Tagging policies

Workspace management

IAM management

Databricks CPA certification

Databricks Platform Administration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

SiloSmashers, Inc. is seeking a Databricks Platform Administrator in Alexandria, VA to support a government customer. You will architect, develop, optimize, and maintain high-performance data ingestion, transformation, and analytics pipelines within Databricks Lakehouse environments.

Collaboration with federal teams and cross-functional platform units is essential. The role requires 8+ years of experience with cloud-based data platforms, Databricks administration, and a relevant degree or