Sr. Azure Databricks Admin (Onsite)
Cognizant · Buffalo, NY · 1 wk ago
HybridAdministrative$90k–$145k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Administer and maintain Azure Databricks workspaces, clusters, and Unity Catalog across dev, staging, and production environments.
- Design and enforce cluster policies, access controls, and workspace configurations aligned with enterprise security standards.
- Manage Unity Catalog — including metastores, catalogs, schemas, and fine-grained data access policies.
- Monitor platform health, cluster utilization, job performance, and implement auto-scaling and cost optimization strategies.
- Integrate Databricks with Azure services including ADLS Gen2, Azure Key Vault, Azure Active Directory, Event Hubs, and Synapse Analytics.
- Implement secrets management, service principals, and managed identity configurations using Azure AD and Databricks Secrets.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, ARM/Bicep templates, or Databricks Terraform provider.
- Establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Databricks workflows using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
- Collaborate with security teams to ensure compliance with data governance, audit logging, and lineage tracking.
- Troubleshoot cluster failures, job bottlenecks, Spark performance issues, and data pipeline errors.
- Maintain runbooks, platform documentation, and administer change management processes.
Requirements
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Pay
The annual salary for this position is between $ 90,000 - $ 145,000 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
Schedule
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