This position requires an ACTIVE SECRET security clearance. Your application will not be reviewed if you do not have an ACTIVE security clearance at SECRET or above.

Elevate Government Solutions is a high growth Technology Services company focused on driving technological change in the government space. Our teams engage with various government agencies to develop and deploy emerging technology solutions using a tailored Agile methodology.

We are seeking a highly motivated and intellectually curious Databricks Platform Engineer/Admin to join our team working with a Federal client. The position will be a remote role open to US citizens residing in the United States with a Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities and Duties

Deploy Databricks workspaces from scratch via Terraform + Databricks SRA on AWS GovCloud/Commercial, across dev/test/prod
Design and implement networking (VPC, subnets, PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, security groups, DNS) for control plane/data plane connectivity
Administer Unity Catalog: metastores, catalogs, schemas, external locations, grants, row/column-level security
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and Databricks Asset Bundles (DABs) deployment
Own platform governance, strategy, and best practices; define workspace guardrails, tagging, and naming standards
Automate provisioning of cluster policies, secrets, service principals, SSO/SCIM integration
Monitor platform health, cost, and utilization; drive FinOps and rightsizing recommendations
Act as escalation point for platform incidents and root-cause analysis

Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications

6+ years administering/engineering Databricks platforms, ideally on AWS
Hands-on Terraform experience (networking, IAM, compute, storage)
Strong knowledge of Databricks SRA and Unity Catalog administration
Experience with DABs or equivalent deployment automation
Python and Linux systems administration
AWS services: VPC, IAM, S3, KMS, EC2, CloudWatch (GovCloud experience a plus)
Comfortable operating in regulated/compliance-heavy environments (FISMA High/FedRAMP High a plus)
Strong communication skills; able to advise stakeholders on platform decisions

Education Requirement

4 year Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Eng or related (highly preferred)

Benefits

Health Insurance
401k match
Unlimited Vacation
11 Federal Holidays
Remote work
Training
Mentoring/Coaching

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