AAA Western and Central New York · 13 hours ago
Cloud & Data Systems Administrator
Williamsville, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$79K/yr - $93K/yr
5+ years expAAA Western and Central New York is dedicated to providing a satisfying experience for its members and is recognized as one of the best places to work in the WNY & CNY area. The Cloud & Data Systems Administrator will be responsible for administering Azure Databricks workspaces, ensuring data infrastructure reliability, implementing security standards, and providing operational support for database-related issues.
Consumer Services
Responsibilities
Administer Azure Databricks workspaces, clusters, pools, permissions, and configurations
Implement governance, access controls, secrets management, and workspace policies
Ensure cost-efficient compute usage through autoscaling, cluster policies, and monitoring
Monitor performance of Databricks jobs, SQL warehouses, and underlying storage
Proactively tune clusters, SQL environments, and pipelines to ensure high availability
Maintain observability through monitoring platforms, SQL Server, Databricks Metrics, and alerting
Resolve data platform issues related to cluster performance, job failures, permissions, or integration points
Collaborate with data engineering and development teams to troubleshoot environment-level issues
Implement platform-wide security standards: SQL roles, Azure RBAC, network rules, Unity Catalog privileges
Support compliance and governance across cloud data services and SQL Server environments
Diagnose and resolve database-related issues, working closely with the IT team to troubleshoot and minimize disruptions
Maintain documentation of environments, policies, network architecture, data access patterns, and cluster standards
Qualification
Required
5+ years administering SQL Server or other enterprise databases
2-4 years managing cloud data platforms (Azure Databricks preferred)
1-3 year of experience with cloud-based data warehousing, business intelligence tools, data science, and data analytics environments in an Azure environment preferred
Experience with cloud-based compute cluster configuration, scaling, and optimization
Hands-on experience with monitoring and observabilities tools such as SolarWinds, Azure Monitor, and Databricks native tools
Preferred
Experience with Unity Catalog
Experience with Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Datafactory, & Delta Lake
Experience with DevOps for data platforms (CI/CD for Databricks, Infrastructure-as-code for data services)
Familiarity with Power BI or Analytics integration
Benefits
Medical, Dental, Life and AD&D Insurance
Flexible work schedules
Pre-Tax & Roth 401(k) plan with company match
Health Spending Accounts with company contribution & Flexible Spending Accounts
Company Paid Short-term & Long-term disability
Paid time off
Tuition reimbursement & company-paid training programs
FREE AAA membership & travel / product discounts
Paid Volunteer Time Off
Company
AAA Western and Central New York
We are an iconic American organization that’s been around since before you can remember.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Tony Spada
President and CEO
Adam Winkworth, MBA, SHRM-CP, FPC
Senior Human Resources Business Partner
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