Databricks Platform Engineer/Admin

Vital Tech Solutions; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Vital Tech Solutions, a technology services organization, seeks a Senior Databricks Platform Engineer/Administrator to design, deploy, govern, and support enterprise Databricks environments for a federal client in the Washington, DC area.

The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on Databricks experience in AWS, strong infrastructure automation, networking, governance, security, CI/CD, and platform operations. Active Secret clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Active Secret security clearance or higher is required.
• 6+ years of Databricks platform engineering/administration experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Databricks in AWS environments.
• Advanced Terraform experience for networking, IAM, compute and storage.
• Unity Catalog administration experience.
• Experience with Databricks Asset Bundles or similar deployment automation.
• Strong CI/CD and IaC practices.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder advisory skills.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and configure Databricks workspaces from the ground up using Terraform and Databricks Secure Reference Architecture across development, test, and production environments.
• Support Databricks deployments within AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud environments.
• Design and implement AWS networking architecture, including VPCs, subnets, PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, security groups, and DNS.
• Manage Databricks control-plane and data-plane connectivity.
• Administer Unity Catalog, including metastores, catalogs, schemas, external locations, permissions, grants, and row- and column-level security.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting infrastructure deployment and Databricks Asset Bundles.
• Establish platform governance standards, architectural guardrails, tagging strategies, naming conventions, and operating best practices.
• Automate provisioning and administration of cluster policies, secrets, service principals, SSO, and SCIM integrations.
• Monitor platform health, utilization, performance, and cost.
• Identify opportunities for rightsizing, cost optimization, and improved platform efficiency.
• Serve as an escalation point for platform incidents, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
• Partner with technical and business stakeholders to provide guidance on platform architecture, governance, security, and operational decisions.

Skills

Databricks

Terraform

AWS

Unity Catalog

CI/CD

Networking

Security & Governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology

Tools

Databricks

Databricks Asset Bundles

Terraform

Job description

Security Clearance: Active Secret or higher REQUIRED

Our client, a growing technology services organization supporting federal government programs, is seeking an experienced Senior Databricks Platform Engineer / Administrator to help design, deploy, govern, and support enterprise Databricks environments for a federal client.

Candidates must currently hold an ACTIVE Secret security clearance or higher . Candidates without an active Secret-level clearance cannot be considered.

The ideal candidate will bring deep hands‑on experience building and administering Databricks platforms, particularly within AWS environments, with strong expertise in infrastructure automation, networking, governance, security, CI/CD, and platform operations.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and configure Databricks workspaces from the ground up using Terraform and Databricks Secure Reference Architecture across development, test, and production environments.
  
• Support Databricks deployments within AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud environments.
  
• Design and implement supporting AWS networking architecture, including VPCs, subnets, PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, security groups, and DNS.
  
• Manage Databricks control-plane and data-plane connectivity.
  
• Administer Unity Catalog, including metastores, catalogs, schemas, external locations, permissions, grants, and row- and column-level security.
  
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting infrastructure deployment and Databricks Asset Bundles.
  
• Establish platform governance standards, architectural guardrails, tagging strategies, naming conventions, and operating best practices.
  
• Automate provisioning and administration of cluster policies, secrets, service principals, SSO, and SCIM integrations.
  
• Monitor platform health, utilization, performance, and cost.
  
• Identify opportunities for rightsizing, cost optimization, and improved platform efficiency.
  
• Serve as an escalation point for platform incidents, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
  
• Partner with technical and business stakeholders to provide guidance on platform architecture, governance, security, and operational decisions.
  

Requirements

• Active Secret security clearance or higher is required.
  
• 6+ years of experience engineering, administering, or supporting Databricks platforms.
  
• Strong hands-on experience with Databricks in AWS environments.
  
• Advanced Terraform experience supporting infrastructure such as networking, IAM, compute, and storage.
  
• Strong knowledge of Databricks Secure Reference Architecture.
  
• Hands-on Unity Catalog administration experience.
  
• Experience with Databricks Asset Bundles or comparable deployment automation frameworks.
  
• Strong understanding of CI/CD practices and infrastructure-as-code methodologies.
  

Hands-on experience with AWS services including:

• VPC
  
• IAM
  
• S3
  
• KMS
  
• EC2
  
• CloudWatch
  
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis capabilities.
  
• Strong communication skills with the ability to advise stakeholders on technical and platform decisions.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within regulated, security-sensitive, or compliance-heavy environments.
  
• Experience supporting FISMA High, FedRAMP High, or comparable federal security standards.
  
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.