Job Description

Johannesburg or Cape Town | 6-Month Contract

We are looking for a hands-on Databricks Workspace Administrator to join a high-performing platform team focused on enabling secure, scalable analytics, AI, and Generative AI solutions.

This is more than a traditional admin role — you will play a key role in workspace governance, tenant enablement, identity management, and platform optimisation within a modern enterprise environment.

What You'll Be Doing

• Administer and govern Databricks workspaces, access controls, cluster policies, and permissions
• Manage Unity Catalog structures, schemas, and governance models
• Create and maintain service principals, groups, and least-privilege access controls
• Support and onboard tenant teams across analytics, ML, and GenAI workloads
• Build and maintain SQL dashboards, monitoring, and alerting pipelines
• Drive platform improvements, automation, documentation, and operational standards
• Support monitoring around usage metrics, inference workloads, LLM token/rate limits, and anomaly detection

Required Experience

• 4+ years industry experience
• 2+ years hands-on Databricks Workspace Administration
• Strong experience managing users, groups, service principals, and governance models
• Experience supporting data engineering, analytics, and AI/ML teams
• Enterprise or regulated environment experience
• Hive/Glue and JDBC pipeline setup and maintenance
• Strong SQL and dashboard development skills
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills

Nice to Have

• Experience with ML / Generative AI workloads on Databricks
• CI/CD and automation integration experience
• AWS or Azure platform exposure
• Experience building platform standards, templates, and self-service onboarding capabilities

If you enjoy working at the intersection of platform engineering, governance, AI enablement, and operational excellence, we'd love to hear from you.