Platform and Databricks DevOps Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton1 day ago
McLean, VA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$78k - $176k/yr
Responsibilities
- Administer Databricks accounts and workspaces, including settings, features, serverless compute, previews, and account-level configurations.
- Manage identity and access using SCIM, users, groups, service principals, roles, entitlements, workspace assignments, and least-privilege controls.
- Govern Unity Catalog metastores, catalogs, schemas, tags, lineage, sharing, and fine-grained access controls.
- Manage clusters, cluster policies, instance pools, job clusters, serverless options, Photon usage, and resource limits.
- Design and maintain multi-environment infrastructure as code using Terraform and the Databricks Terraform Provider.
- Automate notebooks, Delta Live Tables pipelines, workflows, jobs, Delta Lake configurations, and administrative tasks using Python, Bash, REST APIs, and Asset Bundles.
- Monitor platform health, performance, audit logs, usage, operational metrics, and costs, including budget alerts and spending optimization.
- Enforce encryption, private networking, IP access lists, credential management, FedRAMP alignment, and DoD security standards.
- Troubleshoot complex platform issues, conduct root-cause analysis, maintain disaster recovery and backup strategies, and provide Tier-3 support.
- Mentor junior administrators, conduct platform reviews, document procedures, and evaluate new Databricks features.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience administering Databricks.
- Experience with cloud platform operations, data platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure roles.
- Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools, REST APIs, and monitoring or observability concepts.
- Experience scripting or automating platform administration with Python or Bash.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Cloud certification.
- Ability to collaborate with technical teams and stakeholders.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
- Preferred experience includes Databricks account and workspace administration, Unity Catalog, compute and cluster management, identity federation, SCIM, role-based access control, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Azure, continuous automation, and public-cloud troubleshooting.
- A master’s degree is preferred.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits are offered.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care are available.
- Recognition awards support exceptional performance and demonstration of company values.
- Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis are eligible for the company’s benefit programs; employees below that threshold receive select offerings excluding health benefits.
- The position may involve work at a Booz Allen or customer facility depending on whether the role is listed as remote, hybrid, or onsite.
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About Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton builds and integrates software, analytics, AI, cloud, and cybersecurity solutions while providing engineering and consulting services, primarily for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil government clients, with select commercial partnerships. Its business is largely government contracting and professional services delivering mission systems and cyber defense. Founded in 1914 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Booz Allen is a public company traded on the NYSE (ticker: BAH).