# Senior Data Platform Administrator

**Company**: London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)
**Location**: Bangalore
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a skilled and proactive Senior Data Platform Administrator to handle, monitor, and optimize our cloud data platform environment.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with cloud-based data platforms, strong knowledge of Spark, big data or related technologies, and a passion for enabling data teams to work efficiently and securely.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Administer, maintain, and optimize Databricks and cloud-based data platform environment Azure, including workspaces, clusters, jobs, and instance pools.

- Ensure platform reliability, availability, and performance through proactive monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, and operational excellence practices.

- Monitor and optimize platform utilization and cloud costs while maintaining performance and scalability.

- Implement and handle security controls, RBAC, audit logging, and compliance with enterprise governance standards.

- Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines using DevOps tools, GitHub Actions, or GitLab.

- Automate platform provisioning, cluster lifecycle management, job orchestration, and routine operational tasks.

- Provide production support for data engineers, data scientists, and analysts, ensuring timely resolution of incidents and service requests.

- Troubleshoot platform issues, Spark workloads, job failures, performance bottlenecks, and integration challenges.

- Establish and maintain SRE practices, including SLAs, SLOs, error budgets, incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous service improvement.

- Design and maintain observability solutions, including monitoring dashboards, logging, and alerting frameworks.

- Support high availability, disaster recovery, backup, patching, and platform upgrade activities.

- Integrate Databricks with enterprise systems and services, including Azure Data Lake, Power BI, Dataverse, and other cloud-native technologies.

- Collaborate with data engineering, architecture, security, and operations teams to deliver secure, scalable, and resilient data platform solutions.

- Support Lakehouse architecture capabilities, including Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, governance, and data management best practices.

**Required Qualifications:**

- Validated experience administering big data platforms in a production environment.

- Strong understanding of Apache Spark and distributed computing.

- Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred).

- Familiarity with Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, and Lakehouse architecture.

- Proficiency in Python, SQL, and shell scripting.

- Experience with CI/CD tools and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform is a must).

- Excellent problem-solving and interpersonal skills

## Skills

### Required
- Apache Spark
- Databricks
- Azure
- Terraform
- Python
- SQL
- shell scripting
- CI/CD tools

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