Databricks Platform Engineer - Remote (Secret Clearance)

Valid8 Financial, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Unlimited Vacation

Training

Mentoring/Coaching

Job summary

Elevate Government Solutions is seeking a Databricks Platform Engineer/Admin to join our team working with a Federal client. This role is remote for US citizens with a SECRET clearance and involves building and operating secure data platforms in AWS GovCloud.

You will deploy workspaces, automate provisioning, govern data assets with Unity Catalog, and design scalable network and security controls. Strong communication and 6+ years of Databricks experience are essential.

Qualifications

• 6+ years administering Databricks platforms, ideally on AWS.
• Hands-on Terraform experience (networking, IAM, compute, storage).
• Strong knowledge of Databricks SRA and Unity Catalog administration.
• Experience with DABs or equivalent deployment automation.
• Python and Linux systems administration.
• AWS services: VPC, IAM, S3, KMS, EC2, CloudWatch (GovCloud experience a plus).
• Comfortable operating in regulated/compliance-heavy environments (FISMA High/FedRAMP High a plus).
• Strong communication skills; able to advise stakeholders on platform decisions.

Responsibilities

• Deploy Databricks workspaces from scratch via Terraform + Databricks SRA on AWS GovCloud/Commercial, across dev/test/prod.
• Design and implement networking (VPC, subnets, PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, security groups, DNS) for control plane/data plane connectivity.
• Administer Unity Catalog: metastores, catalogs, schemas, external locations, grants, row/column-level security.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and Databricks Asset Bundles (DABs) deployment.
• Own platform governance, strategy, and best practices; define workspace guardrails, tagging, and naming standards.
• Automate provisioning of cluster policies, secrets, service principals, SSO/SCIM integration.
• Monitor platform health, cost, and utilization; drive FinOps and rightsizing recommendations.
• Act as escalation point for platform incidents and root-cause analysis.

Skills

Databricks platform engineering

Terraform

Databricks SRA

Unity Catalog administration

DABs deployment

Python

Linux administration

AWS GovCloud experience

FISMA/FedRAMP familiarity

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Databricks

Job description

Elevate Government Solutions is seeking a Databricks Platform Engineer/Admin to join our team working with a Federal client. This role is remote for US citizens with a SECRET clearance and involves building and operating secure data platforms in AWS GovCloud.

You will deploy workspaces, automate provisioning, govern data assets with Unity Catalog, and design scalable network and security controls. Strong communication and 6+ years of Databricks experience are essential.