Highly valued(Desirable, but not required) knowledge, skills and experience
- Cloud platform expertise (AWS ): IAM roles/policies, object storage security patterns, networking basics (VPC concepts), logging/monitoring integration.
- SQL proficiency and data engineering fundamentals for troubleshooting query performance issues, understanding ETL/ELT workflow patterns, and debugging data pipeline failures; basic Python/Scala familiarity for notebook/code issue diagnosis.
- Experience with compliance and regulatory frameworks (FedRAMP, HIPAA, SOC2, or similar) including implementation of data residency requirements, retention policies, and audit-ready evidence collection.
- Hands-on experience with AWS security and networking services including PrivateLink, Secrets Manager/Systems Manager integration, CloudWatch/CloudTrail integration, S3 bucket policies, cross-account access patterns, and KMS encryption key management.
- Demonstrated experience in Databricks and Cloud FinOps and budget management
- SLA/SLO management, incident management, and stakeholder communication skills; ability to define platform service levels, produce operational reports, translate technical issues to business stakeholders, and manage vendor relationships (Databricks account teams).
- 5+ years of demonstrated experience administering Databricks
- Databricks Platform Administrator/Databricks AWS Platform Architect
- Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate/Professional
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or Professional
The Contractor shall deliver, but not limited to, the following:
- Administer Databricks account and workspaces across SDLC environments; standardize configuration, naming, and operational patterns.
- Configure and maintain clusters/compute, job compute, SQL warehouses, runtime versions, libraries, repos, and workspace settings.
- Implement platform monitoring/alerting, operational dashboards, and health checks; maintain runbooks and operational procedures.
- Manage change control for upgrades, feature rollouts, configuration changes, and integration changes; document impacts and rollback plans.
- Enforce least privilege across platform resources (workspaces, jobs, clusters, SQL warehouses, repos, secrets) using role/group-based access patterns.
- Enable and maintain audit logging and access/event visibility; support security reviews and evidence requests.
- Administer Unity Catalog governance: metastores, catalogs/schemas/tables, ownership, grants, and environment/domain patterns.
- Configure and manage external locations, storage credentials, and governed access to cloud object storage.
- Coordinate secure connectivity and guardrails with cloud/network teams: private connectivity patterns, egress controls, firewall/proxy needs.
- Implement cost guardrails: cluster policies, auto-termination, scheduling, workload sizing standards, and capacity planning.
- Produce usage/cost insights and optimization recommendations; address waste drivers (idle compute, oversized clusters, inefficient jobs).
- Automate administration and configuration using APIs/CLI/IaC (e.g., Terraform) to reduce manual drift and improve repeatability.
- Maintain platform documentation: configuration baselines, security/governance standards, onboarding guides, and troubleshooting references.
- Monitor and optimize platform performance, including SQL warehouse query tuning, cluster autoscaling configuration, Photon enablement, and Delta Lake optimization guidance (OPTIMIZE, VACUUM, Z-ordering strategies).
- Administer Delta Live Tables (DLT) pipelines and coordinate with data engineering teams on pipeline health, data quality monitoring, failed job remediation, and pipeline configuration best practices.
- Manage third-party integrations and ecosystem connectivity, including BI tool integrations (e.g., Power BI), and external metadata catalog integrations.
- Implement Databricks Asset Bundles (DABs) for standardized deployment patterns; automate workspace resource deployment (jobs, pipelines, dashboards) across SDLC environments using bundle-based CI/CD workflows.
- Conduct capacity planning and scalability analysis, including forecasting concurrent user/workload growth, platform scaling strategies, and proactive resource allocation during peak usage periods.
- Facilitate user onboarding and enablement, including new user/team onboarding procedures, training coordination, workspace access provisioning, and creation of selfservice documentation/guides.
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Essential Requirements:
US Citizenship is required.
In compliance with Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the annual base salary range for this position is listed . Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. I2X Technologies considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate’s work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as, market and business considerations when extending an offer.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job with or without reasonable accommodation.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee will regularly sit, walk, stand and climb stairs and steps. May require walking long distance from parking to work station. Occasionally, movement that requires twisting at the neck and/or trunk more than the average person, squatting/ stooping/kneeling, reaching above the head, and forward motion will be required. The employee will continuously be required to repeat the same hand, arm, or finger motion many times. Manual and finger dexterity are essential to this position. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close, distance, depth perception and telling differences among colors. The employee must be able to communicate through speech with clients and public. Hearing requirements include conversation in both quiet and noisy environments. Lifting may require floor to waist, waist to shoulder, or shoulder to overhead movement of up to 20 pounds. This position demands tolerance for various levels of mental stress.
I2X Technologies is an Engineering and Information Technology Company focused on providing Services to the Federal and State Government. I2X offers a competitive compensation program and comprehensive benefits package to our employees.