Realign LLC
Databricks Platform Admin-3
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This role is for a Databricks Platform Admin in St. Louis, Missouri (Hybrid – 3 days onsite/week). The contract length is unspecified, with a pay rate of "unknown." Key skills include Azure Databricks, Terraform, and scripting languages. Required experience includes architecting Azure solutions and managing data platforms.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
Unknown
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
November 20, 2025
🕒 - Duration
Unknown
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🏝️ - Location
Hybrid
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
St. Louis, MO
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Databricks #Deployment #Snowflake #Bash #Scala #GitLab #Data Ingestion #Leadership #Python #Delta Lake #Azure #Kafka (Apache Kafka) #Qlik #Terraform #Storage #Ansible #Data Science #Compliance #Monitoring #Security #DBA (Database Administrator) #SQL (Structured Query Language) #Azure ADLS (Azure Data Lake Storage) #ADLS (Azure Data Lake Storage) #CLI (Command-Line Interface) #GIT #Azure Databricks #Scripting #ML (Machine Learning) #Matillion #Agile #Cloud #Data Pipeline #Azure Datalake #Azure CLI (Azure Command Line Interface)
Role description
Job Type: Contract
Job Category: IT
Role: Databricks Platform Admin Location: St. Louis, Missouri (Hybrid – 3 days onsite/week) Contract
Databricks Platform Admin – Azure Native Data Platforms, Technology
What you'll do
Design, implement, and manage scalable and secure Databricks platforms to ensure optimal performance and reliability.
Create and manage Databricks workspaces and clusters, including right-sizing and lifecycle management of resources.
Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployment using Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, and scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
Monitor platform health, performance, and cost by building dashboards and integrating with monitoring tools.
Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to cluster configuration, job failures, and performance bottlenecks within Databricksenvironments.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams including data scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to deploy and maintain data pipelines and services on Databricks.
Implement security and governance policies, including user management, access controls, and compliance adherence using Unity Catalog and other Databricks security features.
Optimize compute and storage resources for cost efficiency without compromising performance, leveraging features like Delta Lake and Photon.
Stay updated with new Databricks features and coordinate with product teams to evaluate and adopt them.
Document platform architecture, best practices, troubleshooting guides, and provide mentorship to junior engineers on platform usage and optimization
What you'll need
Required hands-on experience in architecting, deploying, managing, and supporting Azure Databricks Platform, Azure Datalake and related solutions.
Required hands-on experience working with Cloud provider tools and architecture (Azure) .
Required hands-on experience using scripting languages and command-line (CLI) tools such as Ansible, SQL, Terraform, Azure CLI, Databricks CLI, PowerShell and/or Bash.
Preferred experience in management and tuning of data platforms like Azure ADLS storage and Databricks.
Knowledge working with and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and versioning tools such as Git preferred.
Knowledge with a broad set of data ingestion and data pipeline patterns, and associated tools like (Qlik Replicate, Qlik Compose, Databricks, Kafka, Matillion ELT and Snowflake Services)
Experience with working in an agile product development team
Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate system designs and patterns to varying levels of leadership.
Required Skills
DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR
Job Type: Contract
Job Category: IT
Role: Databricks Platform Admin Location: St. Louis, Missouri (Hybrid – 3 days onsite/week) Contract
Databricks Platform Admin – Azure Native Data Platforms, Technology
What you'll do
Design, implement, and manage scalable and secure Databricks platforms to ensure optimal performance and reliability.
Create and manage Databricks workspaces and clusters, including right-sizing and lifecycle management of resources.
Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployment using Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, and scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
Monitor platform health, performance, and cost by building dashboards and integrating with monitoring tools.
Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to cluster configuration, job failures, and performance bottlenecks within Databricksenvironments.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams including data scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to deploy and maintain data pipelines and services on Databricks.
Implement security and governance policies, including user management, access controls, and compliance adherence using Unity Catalog and other Databricks security features.
Optimize compute and storage resources for cost efficiency without compromising performance, leveraging features like Delta Lake and Photon.
Stay updated with new Databricks features and coordinate with product teams to evaluate and adopt them.
Document platform architecture, best practices, troubleshooting guides, and provide mentorship to junior engineers on platform usage and optimization
What you'll need
Required hands-on experience in architecting, deploying, managing, and supporting Azure Databricks Platform, Azure Datalake and related solutions.
Required hands-on experience working with Cloud provider tools and architecture (Azure) .
Required hands-on experience using scripting languages and command-line (CLI) tools such as Ansible, SQL, Terraform, Azure CLI, Databricks CLI, PowerShell and/or Bash.
Preferred experience in management and tuning of data platforms like Azure ADLS storage and Databricks.
Knowledge working with and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and versioning tools such as Git preferred.
Knowledge with a broad set of data ingestion and data pipeline patterns, and associated tools like (Qlik Replicate, Qlik Compose, Databricks, Kafka, Matillion ELT and Snowflake Services)
Experience with working in an agile product development team
Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate system designs and patterns to varying levels of leadership.
Required Skills
DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR
