Remote Databricks Platform Engineer (Secret Clearance)

Elevate Government Solutions; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 140,000 - 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 for a remote role supporting a Federal client. You will deploy and manage Databricks workspaces, establish secure networking, and govern Unity Catalog with guardrails across dev/test/prod environments.

The role requires 6+ years of Databricks experience on AWS, Terraform expertise, and strong Python/Linux skills. Familiarity with FISMA/FedRAMP compliance and strong stakeholder communication are valued.

Qualifications

• 6+ years administering/engineering 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 networking (VPC/subnets/PrivateLink/Transit Gateway) for control/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 deployment.
• Own platform governance, strategy, and best practices; define workspace guardrails/naming standards.
• Automate provisioning of cluster policies, secrets, service principals, SSO/SCIM integration.
• Monitor platform health, cost, utilization; drive FinOps and rightsizing recommendations.
• Act as escalation point for platform incidents and root-cause analysis.

Skills

Databricks administration

Terraform

Python

Linux administration

AWS GovCloud experience

Security/compliance knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related

Tools

Databricks SRA

Unity Catalog

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Elevate Government Solutions is seeking a Databricks Platform Engineer/Admin for a remote role supporting a Federal client. You will deploy and manage Databricks workspaces, establish secure networking, and govern Unity Catalog with guardrails across dev/test/prod environments.

The role requires 6+ years of Databricks experience on AWS, Terraform expertise, and strong Python/Linux skills. Familiarity with FISMA/FedRAMP compliance and strong stakeholder communication are valued.