Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect - Platform Security and Cloud Infrastructure

About the Position

Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect - Platform Security and Cloud Infrastructure

France

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Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to guide strategic customers to successful implementations on big data projects, ranging from architectural and security design to development and deployment best practices including automation.
• Architect production-level workloads, including end-to-end pipeline load performance testing and optimization.
• Provide technical expertise in cloud infrastructure and security relating to our Databricks Lakehouse Platform.
• Assist Solution Architects with more advanced aspects of the technical sale including custom proof of concept content, workload sizing, and custom architectures.
• Improve community adoption (through tutorials, training, hackathons, conference presentations).
• Contribute to the Databricks Community and act as a technical SME.

Requirements

• Pre-sales or post-sales experience working with external clients across a variety of industry markets.
• Experience as a Data Platform engineer designing, setting up, and maintaining production-grade big data systems (Spark).
• Experience designing cloud infrastructure and services, in particular in AWS and Azure, applying best practices in cloud security and networking, including:
  • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure automation (e.g. Terraform or cloud-specific resource management tools like ARM, CloudFormation, etc).
• Experience supporting customers in designing and implementing a security lakehouse/security data platform on Databricks to augment SIEM, enable security analytics and threat hunting, and build advanced detections.
• Ability to design and extend highly performant, scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud-based big data solutions.
• Deep knowledge of development tools and best practices for engineers including CI/CD, unit and integration testing, plus automation and orchestration.
• Production programming experience in one or more of the following languages - Python, Scala, SQL, or R.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• The role is located in Paris and requests travel up to 30% when needed.
• Fluency in French and English.

Nice to Have

• Databricks Certification

We Offer

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About the Company

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide - including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 - rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

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