Databricks Platform Engineer/Admin

This position requires an ACTIVE SECRET security clearance. Your application will not be reviewed if you do not have an ACTIVE security clearance at SECRET or above.

Elevate Government Solutions is a high growth Technology Services company focused on driving technological change in the government space. Our teams engage with various government agencies to develop and deploy emerging technology solutions using a tailored Agile methodology.

We are seeking a highly motivated and intellectually curious Databricks Platform Engineer/Admin to join our team working with a Federal client. The position will be a remote role open to US citizens residing in the United States with a Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities and Duties

Deploy Databricks workspaces from scratch via Terraform + Databricks SRA on AWS GovCloud/Commercial, across dev/test/prod

Design and implement networking (VPC, subnets, PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, security groups, DNS) for control plane/data plane connectivity

Administer Unity Catalog: metastores, catalogs, schemas, external locations, grants, row/column-level security

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and Databricks Asset Bundles (DABs) deployment

Own platform governance, strategy, and best practices; define workspace guardrails, tagging, and naming standards

Automate provisioning of cluster policies, secrets, service principals, SSO/SCIM integration

Monitor platform health, cost, and utilization; drive FinOps and rightsizing recommendations

Act as escalation point for platform incidents and root-cause analysis

Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications

6+ years administering/engineering Databricks platforms, ideally on AWS

Hands-on Terraform experience (networking, IAM, compute, storage)

Strong knowledge of Databricks SRA and Unity Catalog administration

Experience with DABs or equivalent deployment automation

Python and Linux systems administration

AWS services: VPC, IAM, S3, KMS, EC2, CloudWatch (GovCloud experience a plus)

Comfortable operating in regulated/compliance-heavy environments (FISMA High/FedRAMP High a plus)

Strong communication skills; able to advise stakeholders on platform decisions

Education Requirement

4 year Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Eng or related (highly preferred)

Health Insurance

Unlimited Vacation

Training

Mentoring/Coaching

Skills Self-Assessment Please share your experience with each of these skills

Databricks No Experience Some Experience Expert

Terraform No Experience Some Experience Expert

Python and Linux systems administration No Experience Some Experience Expert

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