Azure Databricks Admin

About the role

The Infosys Data and Analytics (DNA) unit is at the forefront of transforming data into actionable insights, driving business growth and operational efficiency. We specialize in leveraging advanced AI and analytics to create innovative solutions that address complex business challenges. Our team is dedicated to pioneering the future of data-driven decision-making, enabling organizations to unlock new opportunities and achieve sustainable success. Join us to be part of a dynamic team that is revolutionizing the way businesses harness the power of data and AI. At Infosys DNA, you'll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies, collaborate with industry experts, and contribute to transformative projects that shape the future of business. We are committed to fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth, ensuring that our team members thrive in a dynamic and supportive environment.

Area of Responsibility

• Develop project timelines, proactively identify and address resource discrepancies, to ensure timely project completion
• Act as a liaison between technical teams and clients, facilitating effective communication through regular meetings and milestone reviews
• Support functional teams in managing advisory and consulting initiatives focusing on domain specific product evaluation, benchmarking studies and domain specific system configurations
• Monitor project deliverables across all phases, to meet established quality benchmarks and stakeholder expectations

Your Contribution to the Team

• Proactive risk management to ensure project delivery
• An ability to build collaborative relationships with stakeholders through effective communication
• Focused governance over project scope and identification of additional project opportunities
• Focus to anticipate challenges and deliver innovative solutions
• Commitment to balance project economics with adherence to strategic priorities

Required Skills and Experience

• Architecture and administration experience with Microsoft Azure Databricks
• Experience with platform automation, DevOps, and CI/CD pipelines
• Knowledge of cloud security, networking, and identity management
• Establish platform monitoring, observability, and automated alerting frameworks for Azure Databricks platform components
• Platform automation through Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, DevOps, and CI/CD pipelines
• Implement capacity planning, disaster recovery, and high availability strategies
• Expertise in managing Unity Catalog, and data access control mechanisms
• Experience of managing Databricks cluster policies, instance pools, autoscaling, auto-termination, and compute governance
• Support platform upgrades, runtime migrations, and feature enablement
• Administer Azure Databricks workspaces across Development, QA, Production & DR environments
• Integrate Azure Databricks with Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD)
• Manage RBAC, SCIM provisioning, user lifecycle management, and group synchronization
• Implement and maintain Unity Catalog permissions and governance policies
• Configure Key Vault-backed secret scopes and credential management
• Support secure networking using:
  • Private Endpoints
  • VNET Injection
  • NSGs
  • Firewall Rules
  • Managed Identities
• Implement enterprise governance standards using Unity Catalog
• Maintain audit logging and compliance reporting
• Troubleshoot platform, cluster, notebook, and job execution issues
• Establish operational runbooks, incident management procedures, and SLA monitoring
• Implement cluster policies to control costs and prevent resource overprovisioning

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Manage platform operations, incident management, and change governance
• Design scalable, resilient, and secure platform solutions aligned with enterprise architecture standards
• Establish best practices for platform architecture, governance, and security
• Certifications in cloud architecture (Azure, Databricks) preferred
• ITIL knowledge for service management and operations governance
• Deliver platform health metrics, risk assessments, and operational reports
• Ensure adherence to SLA, compliance, and operational standards
• Experience of supporting migration of legacy systems (like HMS) to Databricks on cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, or GCP
• Skillset of integrating guidelines to configure and integrate Databricks with other existing security tools relevant to data access control
• Experience in Azure Databricks, real time data ingestion, data warehouses, serverless ETL, No SQL databases, DevOps, Kubernetes, virtual machines, web/function apps, monitoring, and security tools
• Optimize cluster utilization and DBU consumption
• Utilize autoscaling, instance pools, spot instances, and workload optimization techniques
• Produce usage, cost, and governance dashboards for stakeholders
• Provide guidance on Databricks best practices and platform standards
• Support onboarding of new projects and workloads onto the platform
• Managed Kubernetes cluster and workload including network architecture

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education. This position may require relocation and/or travel to work/project location. All applicants authorized to work in the United States are encouraged to apply.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts
• Insurance (Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Legal)
• 401(k) plan and contributions dependent on salary level
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

About Us

Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in more than 50 countries to navigate their digital transformation. With over four decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer our clients through their digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer delight. Our always-on learning agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem.