Databricks Platform Administrator

Candidate should work from Atlanta GA

Databricks Platform Administrator - contract

Job Description:-

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

4-yr 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.

If you are interested or have any references please share resume at [email protected].