Databricks Platform Admin — Secure Data & AI at Scale

Forvis Mazars, LLP; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Forvis Mazars, LLP is seeking a Databricks Platform Administrator to operate, secure, and optimize the Databricks Intelligence Platform at scale. You will work with data engineers, security, cloud, and AI teams to implement governance, access controls, and cost-efficient practices.

The role focuses on platform health, security, monitoring, and automation, with responsibilities spanning compute, Unity Catalog, and CI/CD pipelines in a large enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• Five+ years of relevant technology experience.
• Experience administering and supporting the Databricks platform.
• Knowledge of Databricks security, Unity Catalog, RBAC/ABAC, identity management, and least-privilege access.
• Experience with data governance, auditing, monitoring, lineage, and compliance controls.
• Knowledge of cloud security, networking, encryption, secrets management, and private connectivity.
• Experience with major cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Experience with Terraform, GitLab, Jira, Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, APIs, and platform automation.
• Knowledge of Databricks compute resources, SQL warehouses, jobs, storage, cost management.
• Understanding of Databricks AI capabilities and governance for AI workloads.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work across Data Engineering, AI, Enterprise Architecture, Cloud, Security teams.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support the enterprise Databricks platform: workspaces, compute, configurations, services.
• Manage platform security, identity, access controls, and least-privilege.
• Administer Unity Catalog for governed data access.
• Maintain monitoring, reliability, performance, and availability.
• Set standards for compute resources, cluster policies, runtimes, libraries, and configs.
• Monitor and optimize utilization, performance, and cost.
• Automate configurations and deployments using Terraform, Git, APIs, and CI/CD.
• Support data governance, auditing, lineage, and compliance controls.
• Support cloud security: networking, encryption, secrets, private connectivity.
• Collaborate with EA, Security, Cloud, Data Engineering, and AI teams to maintain standards.
• Document platform configurations and procedures.
• Support AI workloads governance and security.

Skills

Databricks Admin

Unity Catalog

RBAC / ABAC

Terraform

GitLab

Jira

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

APIs

Security concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT / CS / Eng / Data Systems

Tools

Terraform

GitLab

Jira

Azure DevOps

Job description

Forvis Mazars, LLP is seeking a Databricks Platform Administrator to operate, secure, and optimize the Databricks Intelligence Platform at scale. You will work with data engineers, security, cloud, and AI teams to implement governance, access controls, and cost-efficient practices.

The role focuses on platform health, security, monitoring, and automation, with responsibilities spanning compute, Unity Catalog, and CI/CD pipelines in a large enterprise environment.