Senior Data Platform Administrator

We are seeking a skilled and proactive Senior Data Platform Administrator to handle, monitor, and optimize our cloud data platform environment. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with cloud-based data platforms, strong knowledge of Spark, big data or related technologies, and a passion for enabling data teams to work efficiently and securely.

Key Responsibilities -

• Administer, maintain, and optimize Databricks and cloud-based data platform environment Azure, including workspaces, clusters, jobs, and instance pools.
• Ensure platform reliability, availability, and performance through proactive monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, and operational excellence practices.
• Monitor and optimize platform utilization and cloud costs while maintaining performance and scalability.
• Implement and handle security controls, RBAC, audit logging, and compliance with enterprise governance standards.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines using DevOps tools, GitHub Actions, or GitLab.
• Automate platform provisioning, cluster lifecycle management, job orchestration, and routine operational tasks.
• Provide production support for data engineers, data scientists, and analysts, ensuring timely resolution of incidents and service requests.
• Troubleshoot platform issues, Spark workloads, job failures, performance bottlenecks, and integration challenges.
• Establish and maintain SRE practices, including SLAs, SLOs, error budgets, incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous service improvement.
• Design and maintain observability solutions, including monitoring dashboards, logging, and alerting frameworks.
• Support high availability, disaster recovery, backup, patching, and platform upgrade activities.
• Integrate Databricks with enterprise systems and services, including Azure Data Lake, Power BI, Dataverse, and other cloud-native technologies.
• Collaborate with data engineering, architecture, security, and operations teams to deliver secure, scalable, and resilient data platform solutions.
• Support Lakehouse architecture capabilities, including Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, governance, and data management best practices.

Required Qualifications

• Validated experience administering big data platforms in a production environment.
• Strong understanding of Apache Spark and distributed computing.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred).
• Familiarity with Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, and Lakehouse architecture.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and shell scripting.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform is must).
• Excellent problem-solving and interpersonal skills

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