Databricks Admin

Job Title: Databricks Admin

Location: Branchville,NJ

Duration: 11 Months + Extension

Bill Rate: $79/hour

Job Type: W-2, 1099, C2C

Client: To Be Discussed Later

Work Authorization: US-Citizen, H-1B, OPT-EAD, GC-EAD

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Databricks Platform Administrator to manage, secure, and support enterprise Databricks workspaces across development, testing, and production environments. The candidate will be responsible for workspace administration, access management, cluster configuration, security, automation, governance, and operational support.

Key Responsibilities:

• Administer and support Databricks workspaces across development, test, and production environments.

• Manage user provisioning, role-based access control (RBAC), service principals, groups, and user entitlements.

• Configure and maintain cluster policies, instance pools, job compute, and all-purpose compute resources.

• Monitor platform health, job performance, resource utilization, and operational incidents.

• Implement security controls for secrets management, data access, encryption, private connectivity, and audit logging.

• Manage Unity Catalog, data governance standards, and workspace-level administration.

• Develop automation for workspace provisioning, policy enforcement, monitoring, and administrative tasks.

• Support CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for Databricks deployments and configuration management.

• Troubleshoot platform, connectivity, identity federation, and job execution issues.

• Optimize cluster performance, resource utilization, and platform costs.

• Work with data engineering workflows involving Apache Spark, notebooks, Delta Lake, and job scheduling.

• Manage and support cloud platform integrations.

• Work with Logic Apps, Azure API Management (APIM), and Application Gateways.

• Create and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, standards, and support procedures.

• Collaborate with data engineering, cloud infrastructure, security, and application teams.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.