Databricks Platform Engineer — Azure Cloud & IaC

McKesson’s Corporate; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 107,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

McKesson is seeking a data platform engineer in Columbus, OH to administer Databricks environments and drive cloud infrastructure enhancements. You will manage configurations, performance, and lifecycle across development, testing, and production, partnering with security and infrastructure teams to uphold standards.

Responsibilities include building data ingestion pipelines, enabling scalable data processing, and advancing governance with Unity Catalog, while contributing to incident response

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in CS/IS/Engineering or related field.
• 4+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or related disciplines.
• Experience administering Databricks environments.
• Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Experience supporting Azure cloud services and infrastructure.
• Experience developing and maintaining data ingestion solutions.
• Strong SQL and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience supporting production environments and operational workloads.
• Understanding of data modeling, data governance, and modern data architecture concepts.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain Databricks environments supporting enterprise analytics and data engineering workloads.
• Manage platform configurations, cluster performance, capacity planning, and operational stability.
• Monitor platform health and troubleshoot performance, reliability, and operational issues.
• Support lifecycle management of platform resources across development, testing, and production environments.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform.
• Support cloud-based data infrastructure within Azure environments.
• Implement automation to improve platform consistency, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Partner with infrastructure and security teams to ensure adherence to enterprise standards.
• Build and support data ingestion frameworks and pipelines that enable reliable movement of data across platforms.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers to improve platform capabilities and optimize data processing workloads.
• Support structured and unstructured data workloads within cloud data environments.
• Assist in identifying and resolving data performance bottlenecks.
• Support data governance initiatives using Databricks Unity Catalog.
• Implement and maintain data access controls, permissions, and governance standards.
• Ensure compliance with organizational security and data management requirements.
• Contribute to metadata, lineage, and data quality practices.
• Evaluate new tools, technologies, and platform capabilities.
• Recommend improvements that enhance scalability, reliability, and developer productivity.
• Document platform standards, operational procedures, and support processes.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and operational reviews.

Skills

Databricks administration

Azure

SQL

Data engineering

Troubleshooting

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience

Tools

Terraform

Unity Catalog

Job description

McKesson is seeking a data platform engineer in Columbus, OH to administer Databricks environments and drive cloud infrastructure enhancements. You will manage configurations, performance, and lifecycle across development, testing, and production, partnering with security and infrastructure teams to uphold standards.

Responsibilities include building data ingestion pipelines, enabling scalable data processing, and advancing governance with Unity Catalog, while contributing to incident response