Senior Databricks Platform Engineer - Secret Clearance

Zohorecruit; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; 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 a federal client. Active Secret clearance or higher is required, and the candidate will bring hands-on Databricks expertise in AWS and governance, with a focus on CI/CD and automation.

The role covers building Databricks workspaces, managing control-plane/data-plane connectivity, and implementing security, networking, and

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance or higher is required.
• 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.
• Hands-on Unity Catalog administration experience.
• Experience with Databricks Asset Bundles or comparable deployment automation frameworks.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD practices and infrastructure-as-code.

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 supporting 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

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Security & governance

Platform operations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or related field

Tools

Unity Catalog

SCIM integrations

PrivateLink

Job description

Vital Tech Solutions is seeking a Senior Databricks Platform Engineer / Administrator to design, deploy, govern, and support enterprise Databricks environments for a federal client. Active Secret clearance or higher is required, and the candidate will bring hands-on Databricks expertise in AWS and governance, with a focus on CI/CD and automation.

The role covers building Databricks workspaces, managing control-plane/data-plane connectivity, and implementing security, networking, and