Dbt Engineer

Job Title : Senior DBT / Databricks Infrastructure Administrator (Looking for W2 Position)

Experience: 15+ Years

Location: Nashville / Tennessee

We are looking for a highly experienced DBT / Databricks Infrastructure Administrator with strong expertise in enterprise-scale Databricks platform administration, DBT infrastructure, security, governance, performance, and production operations .

Job Description:

• Administer and support enterprise Databricks environments, including workspaces, clusters, compute policies, jobs, and platform configurations.
• Manage DBT infrastructure, environments, deployments, configurations, access, and production support.
• Configure and administer Databricks Unity Catalog, including catalogs, schemas, permissions, RBAC, and data governance.
• Manage IAM, SSO, service principals, secrets, tokens, and access controls across Databricks environments.
• Establish and maintain DEV, QA/UAT, and PROD environments with appropriate security and deployment controls.
• Support CI/CD pipelines for DBT and Databricks deployments using Git-based development and automated release processes.
• Monitor cluster utilization, workloads, job performance, failures, and infrastructure health.
• Perform Databricks performance tuning and cost optimization, including cluster sizing, autoscaling, job optimization, and compute governance.
• Troubleshoot complex DBT/Databricks production issues and perform root-cause analysis.
• Implement enterprise standards for security, governance, audit logging, monitoring, disaster recovery, and platform reliability.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Security, and Architecture teams.

Required Skills

• 15+ years of overall IT/Data Engineering experience
• Strong hands-on Databricks Administration / Infrastructure experience
• Strong DBT administration and deployment experience
• Databricks Unity Catalog
• Databricks clusters, jobs, workflows, compute policies, and workspace administration
• DBT Core / DBT Cloud
• CI/CD and Git
• IAM, RBAC, SSO, secrets and security administration
• Cloud infrastructure experience with Azure or AWS
• Production monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and cost optimization
• Strong scripting/automation skills using Python, Shell, Terraform, or equivalent IaC tools

Candidates with strong hands-on infrastructure/platform administration experience are preferred over purely development-focused profiles.

Regards OpenKyber

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