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Azure Data Platform Engineer

eTeam, Phila, PA, United States


Job Title: Azure Data Platform Engineer
Work Location: Philadelphia PA19103
Contract duration: 6 months

Must Have Skills:
8-10 years of experience in data platform or cloud administration, with strong focus on Azure Databricks.
Hands on experience with Azure services including ADLS Gen2, Azure Networking, Azure Monitor, and ADF.
Nice to have skills:

Databricks
ADF
Detailed Job Description:

Lead onshore platform operations and administration for the Azure data platform, accountable for platform stability, security, and compliance, and serving as the escalation owner for P1/P2 platform incidents and change coordination
Manage access and governance controls across Azure Portal, Entra ID/AD groups, RBAC, Key Vault/secret scopes, and platform components including Databricks workspaces/cluster policies, ADF/SHIR, ADLS ACLs/zones, and integration touchpoints such as Power BI gateway topology
Establish and run platform observability and alert hygiene using Azure Monitor/Log Analytics/App Insights, Splunk, and operational scheduling visibility from Tidal, ensuring thresholds, alert taxonomy, and response playbooks are standardized and continuously improved
Own CI/CD operational readiness and release governance through Azure DevOps (pipelines/repos/boards), support CAB/RFC execution in Ivanti, and drive secure, repeatable platform changes (patching, certificate/secret rotation, rollback plans, audit evidence)
Collaborate with Data Ops and FinOps to implement cost/stability guardrails (tagging/limits, capacity controls, policy-as-code) and to reduce operational toil through automation and self-service patterns.
Monitor Azure Databricks usage and implement cost optimization strategies, including: Cluster right sizing
Autoscaling and auto termination
Instance pool configuration
Install, configure, and administer HVR Hub and agents in Azure and on prem environments. Configure and manage Fivetran connectors for SaaS, databases, and event sources

Minimum years of experience
8-10 years