Databricks Platform Administrator at iSoftTek Solutions Inc Atlanta, GA

Downtown Boulder Partnership; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The Downtown Boulder Partnership is seeking a Databricks Platform Administrator in Atlanta, GA, to lead the administration and optimization of the Databricks platform. Responsibilities include configuring the platform, supporting data engineering, and ensuring optimal performance through monitoring.

The ideal candidate will have a 4-year degree in a related field and at least 3 years of production support experience with Databricks, preferably with skills in AWS/Azure and Hadoop administration.

This role offers an opportunity to be part of a dynamic team engaged in innovative data-driven solutions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of production support of the Databricks platform.
• Hadoop admin skills are preferred.
• Knowledge about Apache Kafka is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Administer the Databricks platform for data analytics and machine learning.
• Collaborate with the data engineering team on data ingestion and transformation.
• Manage security and access control policies.

Skills

Production support of the Databricks platform

Data Analysis

Hadoop administration

AWS/Azure PaaS

Automation frameworks (Terraform)

Apache Kafka

Education

4‑year College Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Job description

Databricks Platform Administrator

Primary Skill: Data Analysis

Location: Atlanta, GA

Job Type: W2

Duration: 12 Months

Job Description

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.

The position will also involve the management of security and changes.

The position will work closely with the Team Lead, other Databricks Administrators, System Administrators, and Data Engineers/Scientists/Architects/Modelers/Analysts.

This position will involve participation in on‑call rotation for 24/7 support.

Education

• 4‑year College Degree preferably in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the administration, configuration, and optimization of the Databricks platform to enable data analytics, machine learning, and data engineering activities within the organization.
• Collaborate with the data engineering team to ingest, transform, and orchestrate data.
• Manage privileges over the entire Databricks account, as well as at the workspace level, Unity Catalog level and SQL warehouse level.
• Create workspaces, configure cloud resources, view usage data, and manage account identities, settings, and subscriptions.
• 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.
• Administer interfaces with Azure AD and Amazon AWS.
• Hadoop admin skills are preferred.
• Knowledge about Apache Kafka is desirable.

Required Skills

• 3+ years of production support of the Databricks platform.

Preferred

• 2+ years of AWS/Azure PaaS.
• 2+ years of automation frameworks such as Terraform.
• 2+ years of Hadoop administration (Cloudera/Hortonworks).
• 2+ years of Apache Kafka streaming platform administration.

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