- Administer and maintain Azure Databricks workspaces, clusters, and Unity Catalog across dev, staging, and production environments.
- Design and enforce cluster policies, access controls, and workspace configurations aligned with enterprise security standards.
- Manage Unity Catalog — including metastores, catalogs, schemas, and fine-grained data access policies.
- Monitor platform health, cluster utilization, job performance, and implement auto-scaling and cost optimization strategies.
- Integrate Databricks with Azure services including ADLS Gen2, Azure Key Vault, Azure Active Directory, Event Hubs, and Synapse Analytics.
- Implement secrets management, service principals, and managed identity configurations using Azure AD and Databricks Secrets.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, ARM/Bicep templates, or Databricks Terraform provider.
- Establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Databricks workflows using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
- Collaborate with security teams to ensure compliance with data governance, audit logging, and lineage tracking.
- Troubleshoot cluster failures, job bottlenecks, Spark performance issues, and data pipeline errors.
- Maintain runbooks, platform documentation, and administer change management processe
- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
- Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
- 401(k) plan and contributions
- Long-term/Short-term Disability
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
About us
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, building the bridge between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, realize tangible returns and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at www.cognizant.com or @cognizant.
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