Databricks Workspace Administrator

SUMMARY:
Databricks Workspace Administrator
Position Overview:
We are seeking a hands-on Databricks Workspace Administrator to own and operate our Databricks platform on scale. This role is responsible for workspace governance, catalog and identity management, and direct engagement with tenant teams to enable analytics, AI, and Generative AI workloads safely and efficiently.
This role is not a pure infrastructure or ticket-based admin role. It sits at the intersection of platform engineering, governance, and tenant enablement enabling Databricks workspaces are secure, well-structured, and easy for teams to onboard and scale.
Secondary work if the above dries up would be high level admin tasks to fine-detailed monitoring and alerting dashboards/pipelines that can benefit all tenants in the workspace.

POSITION INFO:
Job Description:
-Databricks Workspace & Platform Administration: act as Workspace Admin; manage access controls, cluster policies, and job permissions; enforce standards for environment separation, guardrails, and cost/usage controls, SQL experience and dashboard development/maintenance
-Catalog & Governance Management: design, create, and manage Unity Catalog structures; implement and maintain permission models aligned to governance standards.
-Identity & Service Principal Management: create and manage service principals, groups, and permission assignments; support non-human identities for CI/CD, automation, and integrations; partner with identity/security teams to ensure least-privilege access and auditability.
-Tenant Enablement & Engagement: onboard and support tenant teams; run enablement sessions to understand use cases and recommend workspace/catalog/access patterns; provide guidance on best practices for analytics, ML, and GenAI workloads.
-Platform Support & Continuous Improvement: troubleshoot platform configuration and access issues; maintain runbooks and documentation; identify recurring issues and drive automation and standardization.
-Development and maintenance of platform monitoring and alerting