Sr Platform Engineer

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer for Databricks to own and improve the enterprise data platform’s reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness. The role leads platform standards, automation, modernization, monitoring, and responsible AI enablement while partnering with and mentoring teams.

Responsibilities:

• Own the platform: Lead the technical direction, health, reliability, and lifecycle of the enterprise Databricks platform, including workspace configuration, compute, jobs, and SQL warehouses
• Set the guardrails: Define and enforce standards for identity, access, networking, Unity Catalog, and sensitive-data controls, with clear ownership boundaries between platform and workload teams
• Automate and enable self-service: Build Terraform-based Infrastructure-as-Code and automation using GitHub, the Databricks CLI, REST APIs, Python, or PowerShell, and publish golden paths for data, analytics, and AI workloads
• Advance responsible AI: Apply AI-assisted engineering to platform support and enable governed adoption of Databricks AI capabilities such as Genie, agents, and model serving
• Lead modernization: Drive upgrades, migrations, integrations, and security remediations, and prioritize enhancements based on risk, customer feedback, and adoption
• Run it well and cost-effectively: Own monitoring, incident response, and root-cause analysis, and optimize utilization through compute policies, budgets, tagging, and chargeback or showback
• Partner and mentor: Work with security, architecture, compliance, and data teams, mentor engineers, and serve as the backup for one other Platform Engineering platform

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field; an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered
• Seven (7) years of experience in information technology, data engineering, cloud operations, platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure support, or a related technical field
• Hands-on production experience administering, securing, and troubleshooting an enterprise cloud data platform such as Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, or a comparable platform, including workspace or account configuration, compute, jobs, SQL warehouses, permissions, and usage policies
• Experience delivering reusable data platform capabilities, guardrails, or deployment patterns adopted by multiple teams
• Experience building Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform or comparable tools and automating with Python, PowerShell, platform CLIs, or REST APIs
• Advanced knowledge of cloud identity, networking, storage, security, and monitoring as they relate to enterprise data platforms, preferably in Microsoft Azure
• An equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted for this requirement
• The ability to work well in a team environment and be capable of building and maintaining positive relationships with other staff, departments, and customers
• We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time
• Direct production experience with Databricks, or a demonstrated ability to quickly transfer comparable data platform experience to Databricks
• Experience operating enterprise data platforms in regulated or security-conscious environments such as healthcare or financial services
• Data platform or cloud certifications (such as Databricks, Snowflake, or Microsoft Azure) in platform administration, data engineering, security, or architecture
• Experience leading data platform migrations, data governance or catalog adoption (such as Unity Catalog), disaster recovery planning, or other major modernization efforts
• Experience with GitHub Enterprise or Azure API Management, or a track record of quickly ramping up on new platforms
• A track record of mentoring engineers, influencing technical strategy, and delivering measurable platform outcomes