Senior Databricks Platform Engineer (AWS GovCloud) - Secret

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

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.