Databricks Platform Engineer - Senior (Hybrid/Remote)

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska; Omaha (NE); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska is expanding its Platform Engineering team and seeks a Senior Platform Engineer for Databricks to own data engineering platforms, drive reliability, and enable self-service across the enterprise. You will collaborate with security, architecture, and data teams while mentoring engineers and guiding platform modernization.

The role supports hybrid work with weekly in-office presence near Omaha, NE, and may involve travel within approved states.

Qualifications

• Seven years of experience in information technology, data engineering, cloud operations, platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure support, or related field.
• Hands-on production experience administering, securing, and troubleshooting an enterprise cloud data platform such as Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, or similar, including workspace/configuration, compute, jobs, SQL warehouses, permissions, and usage policies.
• Experience building Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform or comparable tools and automating with Python, PowerShell, platform CLIs, or REST APIs.
• Advanced knowledge of cloud identity, networking, storage, security, and monitoring as they relate to enterprise data platforms, preferably in Microsoft Azure.

Responsibilities

• Own the platform: lead the technical direction, health, reliability, and lifecycle of the enterprise Databricks platform, including workspace configuration, compute, jobs, and SQL warehouses.
• Set the guardrails: define and enforce standards for identity, access, networking, Unity Catalog, and sensitive-data controls, with clear ownership boundaries between platform and workload teams.
• Automate and enable self-service: build Terraform-based Infrastructure-as-Code and automation using GitHub, the Databricks CLI, REST APIs, Python, or PowerShell, and publish golden paths for data, analytics, and AI workloads.
• Advance responsible AI: apply AI-assisted engineering to platform support and enable governed adoption of Databricks AI capabilities such as Genie, agents, and model serving.
• Lead modernization: drive upgrades, migrations, integrations, and security remediations, and prioritize enhancements based on risk, customer feedback, and adoption.
• Run it well and cost-effectively: own monitoring, incident response, and root-cause analysis, and optimize utilization through compute policies, budgets, tagging, and chargeback or showback.
• Partner and mentor: work with security, architecture, compliance, and data teams, mentor engineers, and serve as backup for another Platform Engineering platform.

Skills

Databricks

Terraform

Azure

Cloud security

Data platform

IaC

Monitoring

Python

PowerShell

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitHub Enterprise

Azure API Management

Job description

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska is expanding its Platform Engineering team and seeks a Senior Platform Engineer for Databricks to own data engineering platforms, drive reliability, and enable self-service across the enterprise. You will collaborate with security, architecture, and data teams while mentoring engineers and guiding platform modernization.

The role supports hybrid work with weekly in-office presence near Omaha, NE, and may involve travel within approved states.