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Data Platform Administrator
guardianlife · Chennai, India
About The Role
Job Requirement – Data Platform Administrator
Position Summary
We are seeking an Data Platform Administrator to support and manage Data & Analytics platforms with primary focus on Databricks and Fivetran . The role will be responsible for platform administration, production support, user onboarding, security administration, monitoring, incident management, and platform reliability.
Key Responsibilities
Databricks Platform Administration
- Administer Databricks workspaces across Development, Non-Production, Pre-Production, and Production environments.
- Manage cluster policies, SQL Warehouses, Jobs, Workflows, and workspace configurations.
- Administer Unity Catalog, catalogs, schemas, tables, external locations, and storage credentials.
- Manage user provisioning, group administration, and role-based access control.
- Support platform upgrades, and environment configuration.
- Monitor platform health, performance, utilization, and cost optimization.
Fivetran Administration
- Administer Fivetran SaaS and HVR environments.
- Configure and manage connectors, destinations, schedules, and transformations.
- Monitor connector health, pipeline failures, replication latency, and data freshness.
- Troubleshoot ingestion failures and coordinate resolution with source system teams.
- Support onboarding of new data sources and destinations.
Platform Operations & Support
- Provide L2/L3 support for production incidents and service requests.
- Participate in on-call support and incident management processes.
- Perform root cause analysis and implement preventive measures.
- Monitor platform SLAs, job failures, infrastructure alerts, and service health.
- Manage operational runbooks, SOPs, and knowledge articles.
- Coordinate maintenance activities and release deployments.
Security & Governance
- Ensure compliance with organizational security standards.
- Support audit requests and evidence collection.
- Monitor and remediate access and security-related issues.
Automation & Continuous Improvement
- Develop operational automation using Python, SQL, APIs, or scripting tools.
- Automate platform monitoring and alerting.
- Identify opportunities to improve platform stability, operational efficiency, and user experience.
- Contribute to documentation and operational best practices.
Required Technical Skills
Databricks
- Databricks Workspace Administration
- Unity Catalog Administration
- SQL Warehouses
- Workflows / Jobs
- Cluster Management
- Databricks Security & Access Controls
- Monitoring & Troubleshooting
- Cost Management & Optimization
Fivetran
- Fivetran SaaS Administration
- HVR Administration
- Connector Configuration & Management
- Connector Monitoring & Troubleshooting
- Pipeline Support & Operations
C loud & Data Technologies
- A WS Services
- S3
- IAM
- VPC Networking Concepts
- SQL
- Python
- Git
Required Experience
- 5 + years of Data Platform Administration & Operations experience.
- 2 + years of hands-on Databricks administration and support .
- 2+ years of hands-on Fivetran administration and support.
- Experience managing platform access, onboarding, and operational support.
- Strong troubleshooting and incident management skills.
Location
This position can be based in any of the following locations
Chennai Current Guardian Colleagues: Please apply through the internal Jobs Hub in Workday
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