The Evolvers Group
AWS Databricks Administrator
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This role is for an AWS Databricks Administrator on a contract basis for 6 months, paying $100.00 - $120.00 per hour. Required skills include 4+ years of Databricks administration, strong Unity Catalog governance, and AWS fundamentals. In-person work in Washington, DC is required.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
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💰 - Day rate
960
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🗓️ - Date
February 13, 2026
🕒 - Duration
Unknown
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🏝️ - Location
On-site
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Yes
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📍 - Location detailed
Washington, DC 20551
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#AWS IAM (AWS Identity and Access Management) #S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service) #Terraform #GIT #Data Engineering #Infrastructure as Code (IaC) #Documentation #Automation #Logging #Monitoring #Security #GitLab #CLI (Command-Line Interface) #VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) #Databricks #SQL (Structured Query Language) #AI (Artificial Intelligence) #Cloud #IAM (Identity and Access Management) #BI (Business Intelligence) #AWS (Amazon Web Services) #Compliance #Microsoft Power BI #Storage #REST (Representational State Transfer) #Libraries #REST API #ML (Machine Learning)
Role description
Role SummaryClient is seeking a hands-on Databricks Administrator to own the agency’s Databricks lakehouse platform supporting EDP. You will be accountable for platform operations, security, governance (Unity Catalog), automation, cost controls, and reliability across SDLC environments—enabling secure analytics and AI/ML workloads at scale.
Key Responsibilities
Administer Databricks account/workspaces across dev/test/prod; standardize configurations and operational patterns
Manage clusters/compute policies, jobs, SQL warehouses, runtimes, libraries, repos, and workspace settings
Own Unity Catalog (metastores, catalogs/schemas, grants, service principals, external locations, storage credentials)
Implement IAM + security (SSO/SCIM, RBAC, secrets management, audit logging, monitoring, least privilege)
Build automation/IaC (Terraform/CLI/REST APIs) and support CI/CD promotion across environments
Provide Tier 2/3 support: incident troubleshooting, RCA, change control, documentation/runbooks
Drive cost optimization (policies, auto-termination, workload sizing, usage reporting)
Required Skills / Experience
4+ years administering Databricks (workspace admin, compute, jobs, SQL, CLI)
Strong Unity Catalog governance experience
Strong AWS fundamentals (IAM, S3 security, networking/VPC concepts, logging/monitoring)
Security & compliance-ready operations (audit evidence, monitoring, access controls)
Automation with Terraform/CLI/APIs; CI/CD practices for notebooks/jobs/configs
7+ years overall cloud/data platform operations
Nice to Have
FedRAMP / HIPAA / SOC2 or similar compliance exposure
PrivateLink, KMS, CloudTrail/CloudWatch, Secrets Manager integration
Serverless compute, Git integrations (GitLab), Databricks Asset Bundles (DABs), DLT, BI integrations (Power BI)
Education / Certifications (Preferred)
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
Databricks Platform Admin / Databricks AWS Platform Architect
Databricks Data Engineer Associate/Professional
AWS Solutions Architect (Associate/Professional)
Job Type: Contract
Pay: $100.00 - $120.00 per hour
Application Question(s):
Have you personally administered Databricks workspaces + Unity Catalog (metastore, grants, service principals, external locations) in production? (yrs)
Have you implemented AWS IAM/S3 security controls and automated Databricks setup using Terraform/CLI/APIs across dev/test/prod? (Years)
Security clearance:
Secret (Preferred)
Ability to Commute:
Washington, DC 20551 (Required)
Work Location: In person
Role SummaryClient is seeking a hands-on Databricks Administrator to own the agency’s Databricks lakehouse platform supporting EDP. You will be accountable for platform operations, security, governance (Unity Catalog), automation, cost controls, and reliability across SDLC environments—enabling secure analytics and AI/ML workloads at scale.
Key Responsibilities
Administer Databricks account/workspaces across dev/test/prod; standardize configurations and operational patterns
Manage clusters/compute policies, jobs, SQL warehouses, runtimes, libraries, repos, and workspace settings
Own Unity Catalog (metastores, catalogs/schemas, grants, service principals, external locations, storage credentials)
Implement IAM + security (SSO/SCIM, RBAC, secrets management, audit logging, monitoring, least privilege)
Build automation/IaC (Terraform/CLI/REST APIs) and support CI/CD promotion across environments
Provide Tier 2/3 support: incident troubleshooting, RCA, change control, documentation/runbooks
Drive cost optimization (policies, auto-termination, workload sizing, usage reporting)
Required Skills / Experience
4+ years administering Databricks (workspace admin, compute, jobs, SQL, CLI)
Strong Unity Catalog governance experience
Strong AWS fundamentals (IAM, S3 security, networking/VPC concepts, logging/monitoring)
Security & compliance-ready operations (audit evidence, monitoring, access controls)
Automation with Terraform/CLI/APIs; CI/CD practices for notebooks/jobs/configs
7+ years overall cloud/data platform operations
Nice to Have
FedRAMP / HIPAA / SOC2 or similar compliance exposure
PrivateLink, KMS, CloudTrail/CloudWatch, Secrets Manager integration
Serverless compute, Git integrations (GitLab), Databricks Asset Bundles (DABs), DLT, BI integrations (Power BI)
Education / Certifications (Preferred)
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
Databricks Platform Admin / Databricks AWS Platform Architect
Databricks Data Engineer Associate/Professional
AWS Solutions Architect (Associate/Professional)
Job Type: Contract
Pay: $100.00 - $120.00 per hour
Application Question(s):
Have you personally administered Databricks workspaces + Unity Catalog (metastore, grants, service principals, external locations) in production? (yrs)
Have you implemented AWS IAM/S3 security controls and automated Databricks setup using Terraform/CLI/APIs across dev/test/prod? (Years)
Security clearance:
Secret (Preferred)
Ability to Commute:
Washington, DC 20551 (Required)
Work Location: In person
