Data Platform Engineer

**Data Engineer / Databricks Platform Admin** **Permanent | Canberra or Melbourne | Up to $120k incl. super | Baseline clearance | December start** One of Australia's most active Data & AI practices is growing its sovereign delivery team and needs a hybrid platform and data engineer for secure, cleared work. The job is to stand up a Databricks workspace on AWS from the ground up, properly, then help engineer on top of it. **The role** On the platform side, you'll design and implement the workspace to current best practice: Unity Catalog setup, private link, VPC and network isolation, IAM roles and instance profiles. Everything goes through infrastructure as code and proper DevOps practice, not console clicks. Ongoing, you'll own cluster policies, access controls, compute cost management and performance monitoring. On the engineering side, you'll contribute to pipeline development, support the Unity Catalog migration and take part in code reviews. **What you'll bring** * Hands-on Databricks workspace administration * Unity Catalog and metastore configuration * AWS networking and security: VPC, private link, S3, IAM * Terraform or equivalent infrastructure as code * CI/CD for platform configuration * Python and SQL * Git, JIRA and Confluence * Australian citizen with active Baseline clearance (NV1 also welcome) **Good to have** * Hive metastore to Unity Catalog migration experience * Databricks cost management and cluster policy design **What's on offer** * Up to $120k including super, CL10 level * Permanent role, starting 1 December * Canberra or Melbourne * Structured career development, local and international career paths, and flexible work arrangements