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InterSources Inc · 1 day ago

Senior Databricks Administrator

Washington, DC

Contract

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

InterSources Inc is seeking a Senior Databricks Administrator to take ownership of the Databricks platform. The role involves ensuring secure and efficient operations while managing various components of the Databricks environment and supporting data engineering workloads.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cyber SecuritySoftwareInformation Technology

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Hiring Manager

Pavan Kumar

Responsibilities

Serve as the technical owner of the Databricks platform, ensuring secure, reliable, compliant, and cost-efficient operations across SDLC environments

Administer workspaces, clusters, SQL warehouses, jobs, repos, runtimes, and serverless compute using Databricks CLI, APIs, and Terraform

Lead Unity Catalog governance including metastores, catalogs/schemas, grants, service principals, and governed storage access

Enforce IAM, RBAC, SSO/SCIM provisioning, secrets management, audit logging, and least-privilege security controls

Implement monitoring, alerting, CI/CD pipelines (DABs), and automation for configuration and deployment management

Optimize performance and cost through cluster policies, auto-scaling, Delta Lake tuning, and FinOps best practices

Support data engineering workloads (DLT pipelines, SQL tuning, ETL troubleshooting) and manage BI/tool integrations

Coordinate with cloud/network teams (AWS IAM, VPC, PrivateLink, S3, KMS) to ensure secure connectivity and compliance

Maintain documentation, runbooks, change management processes, and incident/SLA reporting

Qualification

Databricks administrationCloud/data platform experienceTerraformIAMRBACCI/CD pipelinesSQL tuningIncident reportingDocumentation

Required

Minimum 10+ years of experience

Bachelor's degree with 7+ years cloud/data platform experience, including 3+ years administering Databricks