Ellis Group
Databricks Platform Engineer
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Databricks Platform Engineer (Contract)
Location: London
Hybrid: 2 days onsite per week
Rate: DOE - Inside IR35
Duration: 6 months, extension likely
Start: 16th November
The role
Our client needs a specialist Databricks Platform Engineer to own the foundations of their enterprise Lakehouse. You’ll be responsible for deploying, securing, automating and governing the platform at scale. This is a core platform role, not a data engineering one.
Responsibilities
- Deploy Databricks workspaces on Azure and AWS with private networking (Private Link, VNet/VPC injection, serverless NCCs)
- Build and manage the platform as code with the Databricks Terraform provider and Asset Bundles
- Set up Unity Catalog at account level, plus identity integration (SCIM, Entra ID / IAM, service principals)
- Apply security controls (customer managed keys, IP access lists, audit logging) and compute governance (cluster policies, budget policies, DBU cost tracking)
- Monitor the platform using system tables and lead incident response
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Essential
- 3+ years hands on Databricks platform engineering or administration in production, enterprise scale environments
- Workspace deployment with private networking, built from scratch
- Advanced Terraform with the Databricks provider, at account and workspace level
- Account level Unity Catalog administration
- Python or Bash for automation
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Desirable
- Databricks Platform Administrator or Platform Architect accreditation
- Serverless governance, multi region or disaster recovery deployments
- Experience provisioning and securing Lakebase (Databricks managed Postgres) or similar cloud managed Postgres services
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