Databricks Platform Admin

Databricks Platform Administrator contract

Job Description:
Client Corporation a Fortune 500 company seeks an experienced Databricks Platform Administrator
for a contract position.
Responsibilities will include designing implementing maintaining databricks platform and providing
operational support. Operational support responsibilities include platform set up and configuration
workspace administration resource monitoring provide technical support to data engineering Data
Science/ML Application/integration teams performing restores/recoveries troubleshooting service issues
determining the root causes of issues and resolving issues. The position will also involve management of
security and changes.
The position will work closely with the Team Lead other Databricks Administrators System Administrators
and Data Engineers/Scientists/Architects/Modelers/Analysts. This position will involve participation in on
call rotation for 24/7 support.
Location:
This position reports to the HQ building in Midtown Atlanta with easy access to MARTA Train & Bus Service
and the interstate.
Education:
4yr College Degree preferably in Information Systems Computer Science Engineering or related field.
Responsibilities:
Responsible for the administration configuration and optimization of the Databricks platform to
enable data analytics machine learning and data engineering activities within the organization.
Collaborate with data engineering team to ingest transform and orchestrate data.
Manage privileges over the entire Databricks account as well as at workspace level Unity Catalog
level and SQL warehouse level.
Create workspaces configure cloud resources view usage data and manage account identities
settings and subscriptions.
Install configure and maintain Databricks clusters and workspaces.
Maintain Platform currency with security compliance and patching best practices.
Monitor and manage cluster performance resource utilization platform costs and troubleshoot
issues to ensure optimal performance.
Implement and manage access controls and security policies to protect sensitive data.
Manage schema data with Unity Catalog create configure catalog external storage and access
permissions.
Administer interfaces with Azure AD and Amazon AWS.
Hadoop admin skills are preferred
Knowledge about Apache Kafka is desirable
Skills:
Required:
3 years of production support of Databricks platform
Preferred:

2 years AWS/Azure PaaS
2 years of automation framework such as Terraform
2 years of Hadoop administration (Cloudera/Hortonworks)
2 years of Apache Kafka streaming platform administation
Process:
Please email resumes of no more than 3 qualified candidates with a suggested hourly rate to the address
listed below.
Resumes should not exceed 3 pages!

This position is in our Midtown Atlanta office building with an immediate start date. This is a contract
position opportunity. Contractor is expected to supply his/her own Verizon cell phone for work related calls
and text pages.
Deadline for submitting resumes is 5:00 pm on March 31 2024