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, networking, security, monitoring, Terraform, Python/scripting, Git, and CI/CD experience.
• Experience with enterprise data governance, access control, audit logging, availability, incident response, and cost optimization.
• Experience supporting federal or regulated environments and familiarity with FISMA, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, and ATO processes.
• Preferred certifications include Databricks Data Engineer, AWS, Terraform, CISSP/Security+, or comparable credentials.

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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be regularly required to stand, sit, talk, hear, reach, stoop, kneel, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer, telephone, keyboard, and standard office equipment
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision requirements due to computer work
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds
• Fine hand manipulation (keyboarding)

Salary = $190,000 - $215,000

Working at Edgewater Federal Solutions:

Edgewater Federal Solutions is a privately held government contracting firm located in Frederick, MD. The company was founded in 2002 with the vision of being highly recognized and admired for supporting customer missions through employee empowerment, exceptional services, and timely delivery. Edgewater Federal Solutions is ISO 9001, 20000-1, 270001 certified, appraised at CMMI Level 3 Maturity for Development and Services, and has been named in the Top Workplaces in the Greater Washington Area Small Companies since 2018.

Edgewater Federal Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It has been and continues to be our policy to provide equal employment to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status and/or other status protected by applicable law. 

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.