Databricks Systems Support Specialist

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Join an organisation that values your voice empowers your autonomy recognises the strength in diversity and prioritises your well-being while offering attractive remuneration and benefits. Take pride in having a meaningful impact on regional rural and remote communities while being a pivotal player in the energy industrys future.

About the role

Youll provide engineering and platform support for Essential Energys Databricks environment ensuring performance reliability and security through proactive monitoring maintenance upgrades and structured incident management.

• Support and troubleshoot Databricks clusters jobs notebooks libraries and integrations.
• Monitor platform health/performance investigate alerts and resolve issues proactively.
• Apply upgrades patches and configuration changes under change control.
• Create and maintain technical documentation/runbooks and architecture artefacts.
• Administer Service Desk queues prioritise requests and close incidents.
• Collaborate with data engineers/developers to debug notebooks workflows and models.
• Identify opportunities to improve security scalability and stability; stay current on product releases.

This role is a fixed term contract for 12 months and can be based within the Essential Energy footprint with the ability to work from home in a hybrid work environment. Occasional afterhours work may be required to restore critical services as part of a rotating on-call roster.

You have experience in data engineering technical support or system administration and are familiar with Databricks platform architecture and administration. Youre comfortable managing systems and troubleshooting technical issues.

• You approach problems methodically and work towards practical solutions.
• You can write and debug code in SQL Python Scala or R.
• You understand distributed computing concepts and technologies.
• You have experience with cloud platforms such as Azure AWS or GCP and can manage infrastructure effectively.
• You look for ways to improve processes and automate tasks where possible.
• You communicate clearly in writing and verbally and can document your work and collaborate with colleagues.
• You work well in a team and contribute to shared goals.

If youre passionate about technology thrive in collaborative environments and love solving complex challenges wed love to hear from you. Join our team and contribute to cutting-edge projects!

Required Qualifications

• Advanced Diploma Information Technology or demonstrated capability through past employment experience and/or relevant qualifications.

Desirable

• Industry certification in Databricks Azure AWS or other relevant technologies

Why Essential Energy

Essential Energy provides employees with a broad range of employee benefits through our corporate partnerships with organisations such as Qantas Optus nib and Mildura Health Fund. You will also gain access to our Health and Wellbeing programs including fitness passport. Visitouremployee benefits pagefor more information.

We are proud to be recognised as aWORK180 Endorsed Employer for All Women.

An energy network doesnt just keep the lights on its a living network that needs to adapt to new and emerging energy generation technologies while still meeting the energy needs of customers.

It requires innovation commitment and collaboration to bring people together to solve the energy delivery challenges of the modern world.

Your potential will be realised and youll feel a real sense of purpose and satisfaction knowing you have a pivot role to play in delivering the energy of the future to the people who need it today.

For further information please contact Michael Berry Manager Data Platforms Engineering and Delivery on0.

Applications close on Sunday 26 October at 11:55pm.

Passionate people. Global thinking. Regional heart.

Building a better energy future.

Essential Energy is committed to building a culturally diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourages applicants to apply regardless of gender age ethnicity sexual orientation or disability.

As an organisation our aim is to champion inclusivity in the workplace and celebrate the difference in all our employees.

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