Role description
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Databricks & Terraform Platform Engineer with 7 to 12 years of experience in data platform engineering, DataOps, platform engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), platform automation, cloud-based data platforms, and CI/CD practices, with a focus on building reliable, scalable, and governed data platform capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Provision, configure, and manage platform resources using reusable Terraform modules and Infrastructure as Code practices.
- Develop and maintain automation tooling, APIs, testing frameworks, structured logging, and reusable utilities using Python.
- Operate and administer Databricks environments, including workspaces, identities, groups, service principals, entitlements, compute policies, clusters, SQL warehouses, and Jobs/Workflows.
- Configure and manage Unity Catalog components including metastores, catalogs, schemas, external locations, storage credentials, workspace bindings, ownership models, and access controls.
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting infrastructure, platform configurations, and deployment workflows.
- Implement environment promotion, deployment controls, approval workflows, rollback processes, and deployment traceability.
- Integrate platform services and workflows through APIs and automation frameworks.
- Establish monitoring, reliability, operational governance, and cost-management practices across platform services.
- Troubleshoot production incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and automate recurring operational tasks.
- Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, configuration inventories, access records, and recovery procedures.
Required Skills
Proficient
- CI/CD
- Python
- Terraform
- Databricks
Experience
- 7 to 12 years of experience in Data Platform Engineering, DataOps, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
- Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience with Terraform, including modules, state management, imports, plans, provider/version management, environment separation, drift detection, and CI/CD integration.
- Strong production experience working with Databricks platforms and automation.
- Strong software engineering experience using Python for automation and platform tooling.
Why Join UST
- Work on enterprise-scale digital transformation and modern cloud data platforms.
- Collaborate with globally distributed teams delivering innovative technology solutions.
- Gain exposure to cutting-edge platform engineering, automation, and cloud technologies.
- Benefit from continuous learning, professional growth, and career advancement opportunities within a technology-driven organization.
Skills
CI/CD, Python, Terraform, Databricks, SCIM, SQL
About UST
UST is a global digital transformation solutions provider. For more than 20 years, UST has worked side by side with the world’s best companies to make a real impact through transformation. Powered by technology, inspired by people and led by purpose, UST partners with their clients from design to operation. With deep domain expertise and a future-proof philosophy, UST embeds innovation and agility into their clients’ organizations. With over 30,000 employees in 30 countries, UST builds for boundless impact—touching billions of lives in the process.
