Nitka Technologies
Platform Administrator (Databricks)
3 нед. назад
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Nitka Technologies is an international IT company specializing in custom software development and IT consulting, looking for an experienced Platform Administrator (Databricks) for a long-term project with a customer in California, leader in ticket sales for events in Europe and the USA, offering 100% remote, full-time work.
About the company
- Nitka Technologies develops software for customers in the US and Europe and brings together about 300 professionals from Eastern Europe, North and South America, Armenia, Georgia and Kazakhstan.
About the product
- The customer is a company in California, an industry leader in the sale of tickets to events in Europe and the USA.
Responsibilities
- Manage multiple Databricks workspaces (dev/qa/prod)
- Configure cluster policies, governance & compliance
- Create & maintain unity catalog objects: catalogs, schemas, grants, service principals, external storage etc
- Monitor and debug failed / long-running jobs using system tables (job_run_timeline, node_timeline, workflow_run)
- Troubleshoot cluster crashes, driver OOM, executor failures, memory leaks
- Investigate Python / Spark errors, dependency conflicts (PyPI, WHL, Maven)
- Assist users with cluster/job configuration, notebook errors, unity catalog permissions
- Explain platform limitations and best practices to Data engineers
- Maintain confluence pages with platform rules & troubleshooting guides
Requirements
- Experience in implementation, integration or technical support
- Experience with Linux, Bash
- Confident SQL skills
- Strong experience of working with AWS Infrastructure (ec2, s3, iam, vpc, secret management, sqs)
- Experience with Python sufficient for writing small scripts or applications
- Experience of maintaining Databricks jobs & environments
- Experience with REST API/SDK
- Understanding of file-based databases (DeltaLake, Parquet, Hive)
- Understanding of cluster types & node families
- Spoken English at Intermediate level or higher
Nice to have
- Databricks REST API / Databricks SDK
- Working with schema evolution, time travel, vacuum, compaction, z-order
- Debugging corrupted delta tables (conflicting commits, tombstones, missing checkpoints)
- Understanding of acid implementation on top of object storage
- Spark knowledge (jobs, partitions, queries), experience in Kafka or similar technology, familiarity with Terraform / Gitlab CI
- Cost monitoring for platform services and objects
- Experience in enterprise Data platforms
Conditions
- Remote work
- Full-time (8 hours/day)
- Attractive USD compensation
- Paid vacation, holidays