Databricks Platform Administrator

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

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Databricks Platform Administrator

Full Time Alexandria, VA, US

2 days ago Requisition ID: 1003

Salary Range: $125,000.00 To $135,000.00 Annually

SiloSmashers is hiring for a Databricks Platform Administrator to support digital transformation efforts for a government customer. The selected candidate will serve as part of a team responsible for architecting, developing, optimizing, and maintaining high ‑ performance data ingestion, transformation, streaming, and analytical pipelines within Databricks ‑ enabled Lakehouse environments. This role is expected to collaborate closely with the federal technical teams, and cross ‑ task platform, SRE, governance, privacy, and development personnel.

• Hands-on experience configuring and implementing cluster/job, pipeline, and SQL warehouse policies; experience working with secret scopes;
• Experience implementing SCIM/REST for identity and access management;
• Working knowledge of platform monitoring and observability tools and (e.g. Unity Catalog system tables, platform usage/DBU consumption, auditing user/group/service principal access and activity, Lakehouse Monitoring).
• Experience conducting access and sharing policy audits; validating user, group, and data‑asset permissions against data‑owner/steward‑defined policies and ensuring enforcement is applied consistently within and among enterprise platforms.
• Experience applying and enforcing tags for data and resources such as compute (SQL warehouses, classic compute, serverless compute, etc.), jobs, pipelines, and Databricks Apps.
• Experience managing workspaces, clusters/pools, jobs, Unity Catalog objects, secret scopes, and cluster policies.
• Experience managing user accounts, service principals, and groups.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• Databricks Certified Platform Administration accreditation required.
• Eight (8) or more years of experience (5 of which must be within the last 8 years) administering cloud‑based data platforms, including workspace configuration, identity/access management, and compute governance in Databricks, AWS, Azure, or equivalent environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field; or five (5) or more years of equivalent experience in lieu of a degree.
• This position may require regular, physical attendance at customer sites.