Data Platform Administrator

Land Securities Group

Multiple Locations
Manage cloud data platforms
Strong knowledge of apache spark
Big data or related technologies
Manage and maintain workspaces, clusters, pools, and jobs in Databricks or other big data systems, monitoring performance, usage, and costs to optimize cluster configurations

Job Summary

  • Manage and maintain workspaces, clusters, pools, and jobs in Databricks or other big data systems, monitoring performance, usage, and costs to optimize cluster configurations.
  • Configure role-based access control (RBAC) and audit logging, ensuring compliance with data governance and security standards.
  • Provide support to users like data scientists, engineers, and analysts, troubleshooting job failures, performance bottlenecks, and integration issues.

Matching Summary

Manage and maintain workspaces, clusters, pools, and jobs in Databricks or other big data systems, monitoring performance, usage, and costs to optimize cluster configurations.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Manage cloud data platforms
  • Strong knowledge of Apache Spark
  • Big data or related technologies
  • CI/CD pipelines for notebooks
  • Automate cluster lifecycle management
  • Support data scientists, engineers, analysts
  • Integrate Databricks with enterprise systems

Nice-to-have

  • Passion for enabling data teams
  • Proactive approach to management
  • Collaborative and creative culture
  • Commitment to sustainability

Key Requirements

  • Proven experience administering big data platforms
  • Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred)
  • Familiarity with Unity Catalog, Delta Lake
  • Proficiency in Python, SQL, and shell scripting
  • Experience with CI/CD tools and infrastructure-as-code
  • Terraform is a plus

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