Databricks DBA/Administrator

Overview

Edgewater Federal Solutions is seeking an experienced Databricks DBA/Administrator. The Databricks DBA/Administrator serves as the senior technical authority for administration, security, governance, performance, and reliability of an enterprise Databricks environment supporting federal analytics workloads. The role combines hands-on platform administration with technical leadership, automation, operational support, and cloud/data governance expertise.

• Due to the nature of the work and contract - US Citizenship is required.
• This is a remote role.

Responsibilities

• Administer Databricks workspaces, compute, SQL warehouses, jobs/workflows, users, groups, service principals, policies, and platform configurations.
• Administer Databricks SQL, Delta Lake objects, catalogs, schemas, tables, views, permissions, and performance tuning for large analytical workloads.
• Implement and manage Unity Catalog governance, lineage, metadata, access controls, secure data sharing, and least-privilege permissions.
• Automate platform provisioning and administration using Terraform, Databricks APIs/CLI, Python, Git, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Integrate Databricks with AWS networking, IAM, storage, secrets, logging, monitoring, and enterprise security services.
• Monitor platform health and cost, troubleshoot complex production issues, lead root-cause analysis, and establish operational standards and runbooks.

Qualifications: * US Citizenship Required * Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Database Administration, or a related technical field. * 10+ years of database, data platform, cloud, or infrastructure experience, including significant hands-on Databricks administration experience. * Expert knowledge of Databricks administration, Databricks SQL, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, advanced SQL, and performance optimization. * Strong AWS, IAM