Data Platform Engineer
Posted 4 days ago by Infoplus Technologies UK Limited
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Data Platform Engineer role focuses on the administration and optimization of the Databricks platform within a cloud environment (GCP/AWS). The position requires extensive experience in data engineering and operational support, including platform configuration, resource monitoring, and security management. Collaboration with various teams is essential to ensure effective data analytics and machine learning activities. The role demands a proactive approach to troubleshooting and maintaining optimal platform performance.
Key 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 the data engineering team to ingest, transform, and orchestrate data.
- Manage privileges over the entire Databricks account, as well as at the 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 Google Cloud Platform.
Key Skills:
- 3+ years of production support of the Databricks platform.
- 2+ years of experience of AWS/Azure/GCP PaaS admin.
- 2+ years of experience in automation frameworks such as Terraform.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Leeds
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Job Description: Primary skill - Databricks Admin with GCP / AWS Mandatory Skills: Data Bricks - Data Engineering Experience: 8-10 Years • Responsibilities will include designing, implementing, and maintaining the Databricks platform, and providing operational support. Operational support responsibilities include platform set-up and configuration, workspace administration, resource monitoring, providing technical support to data engineering, Data Science/ML, and Application/integration teams, performing restores/recoveries, troubleshooting service issues, determining the root causes of issues, and resolving issues. • The position will also involve the 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.
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 the data engineering team to ingest, transform, and orchestrate data. • Manage privileges over the entire Databricks account, as well as at the 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 Google Cloud Platform.
Required Skills: • 3+ years of production support of the Databricks platform Preferred: • 2+ years of experience of AWS/Azure/GCP PaaS admin • 2+ years of experience in automation frameworks such as Terraform