COVET IT INC
Databricks Administrator
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This role is for a Databricks Administrator with 8+ years of experience, offering a long-term contract in Dallas, TX or Los Angeles, CA. Key skills include proficiency in PySpark, Python, SQL, AWS, and experience with compliance audits and Databricks APIs.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
January 7, 2026
🕒 - Duration
Unknown
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🏝️ - Location
Remote
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Dallas, TX
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Security #ML (Machine Learning) #Data Engineering #Spark (Apache Spark) #Databricks #Documentation #Monitoring #SQL (Structured Query Language) #Compliance #Data Science #Deployment #Debugging #PySpark #AWS (Amazon Web Services) #Python #Storage
Role description
Role: Databricks Administrator
Work location: Dallas, TX/ Los Angeles, CA (No Remote, Onsite position)
Type: Long Term Contract
Job duties:
• Databricks Administrator with 8 + years of relevant experience.
• 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,
• Assist in the deployment and configuration of Databricks environments, ensuring alignment with best practices for security and performance.
• Responsible for the administration, configuration, and optimization of the Databricks platform to enable data analytics, machine learning, and data engineering activities within the organization.
• 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.
• Manage AWS resources related to Databricks and networking configurations
Technical Competencies:
• Strong understanding of data engineering needs
• Strong understanding of aws infrastructure required by Databricks
• Experience with compliance audits/audit documentation
• Experience using Databricks APIs, system tables for creating admin related queries and dashboards
• Understanding of the Databricks workspace and development environment
• Strong debugging skills
• Proficiency in PySpark, Python, SQL and AWS
Role: Databricks Administrator
Work location: Dallas, TX/ Los Angeles, CA (No Remote, Onsite position)
Type: Long Term Contract
Job duties:
• Databricks Administrator with 8 + years of relevant experience.
• 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,
• Assist in the deployment and configuration of Databricks environments, ensuring alignment with best practices for security and performance.
• Responsible for the administration, configuration, and optimization of the Databricks platform to enable data analytics, machine learning, and data engineering activities within the organization.
• 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.
• Manage AWS resources related to Databricks and networking configurations
Technical Competencies:
• Strong understanding of data engineering needs
• Strong understanding of aws infrastructure required by Databricks
• Experience with compliance audits/audit documentation
• Experience using Databricks APIs, system tables for creating admin related queries and dashboards
• Understanding of the Databricks workspace and development environment
• Strong debugging skills
• Proficiency in PySpark, Python, SQL and AWS
