What are the responsibilities and job description for the DataBricks Admin position at cloudingest inc?
Job Details
We are looking for a Databricks Administrator with 8 years of relevant experience. Work location: Dallas, TX / Los Angeles, CA.
Job duties:
- 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
Ideal Skillset:
- 8 years - Database Admin
- 5 years - Databricks Admin
- 2 years - Python, PySpark
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