Senior Databricks Platform Engineer (Remote, Secret)

Vital Tech Solutions; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Vital Tech Solutions is seeking a Senior Databricks Platform Engineer/Administrator to design, deploy, govern, and support enterprise Databricks environments for federal clients. This remote role requires an active Secret clearance and US citizenship.

You will lead ground-up workspace deployment using Terraform, manage Unity Catalog, and implement robust CI/CD pipelines across AWS GovCloud and commercial regions. Strong preference for AWS networking, security, and governance expertise.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience engineering, administering, or supporting Databricks platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience with Databricks in AWS environments.
• Advanced Terraform experience supporting networking, IAM, compute, and storage.
• Experience administering Unity Catalog and data governance.
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices and deployment automation.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and configure Databricks workspaces from ground up using Terraform and reference architecture across dev, test, prod.
• Support Databricks deployments within AWS Commercial and GovCloud.
• Design and implement AWS networking (VPCs, subnets, PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, security groups, DNS).
• Manage Databricks control-plane and data-plane connectivity.
• Administer Unity Catalog including metastores, catalogs, schemas, locations, and security.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployment and Databricks Asset Bundles.
• Establish platform governance, guardrails, tagging, naming conventions, and operational best practices.
• Automate provisioning and administration of cluster policies, secrets, service principals, SSO, and SCIM.
• Monitor platform health, utilization, performance, and cost; identify optimization opportunities.
• Serve as escalation point for platform incidents and root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to guide platform architecture, governance, security, and operations.

Skills

Communication

Problem Solving

Python

Linux

CI/CD

Terraform

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Cloud Networking

AWS

Networking

VPC

IAM

S3

KMS

EC2

CloudWatch

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field

Tools

Terraform

Databricks

Unity Catalog

CI/CD

Python

Linux

AWS

VPC

IAM

S3

KMS

EC2

CloudWatch

Job description

Vital Tech Solutions is seeking a Senior Databricks Platform Engineer/Administrator to design, deploy, govern, and support enterprise Databricks environments for federal clients. This remote role requires an active Secret clearance and US citizenship.

You will lead ground-up workspace deployment using Terraform, manage Unity Catalog, and implement robust CI/CD pipelines across AWS GovCloud and commercial regions. Strong preference for AWS networking, security, and governance expertise.