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This role is not solely focused on monitoring and operational support. In this role, you will actively develop automation, platform tooling, deployment pipelines, observability capabilities, and reliability solutions that reduce operational toil and improve the scalability of Databricks-hosted applications and data products.This role sits within Data & Analytics and partners closely with Architecture, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Manufacturing IT/OT, Enterprise Applications, citizen developers, and business teams. As the Databricks Site Reliability Engineer, you will support production reliability for Databricks-hosted applications (pattern B), analytics products, workflows, and AI-enabled solutions.\nIn this role, you will help CoorsTek move quickly without creating unmanaged technical debt by contributing to and improving support patterns, monitoring standards, deployment practices, runbooks, incident response, and operational guardrails for Databricks solutions created by both business-enabled citizen development and IT delivery teams.\nRoles and Responsibilities\nSupport production reliability, operational readiness, and lifecycle support for Databricks-hosted applications, data products, dashboards, notebooks, jobs, workflows, APIs, and AI-enabled solutions.\n\nSupport applications migrated to Databricks, built directly in Databricks, or promoted from citizen development and IT development into governed production patterns.\n\nExecute intake, review, handoff, support, and release practices 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permissions, SQL warehouses, jobs, clusters, serverless capabilities, and performance tuning.\n\nPartner with Cybersecurity and Architecture to ensure Databricks solutions meet standards for identity, access, secrets management, logging, data classification, responsible AI, and least-privilege access.\n\nSupport CI/CD, testing, environment promotion, release controls, rollback procedures, and change management for Databricks applications and related Azure or integration components.\n\nIdentify recurring failure patterns and assist with automating manual support work, reducing operational toil, and creating reusable templates and standards.\n\nAdvise teams on production-ready design, including resiliency, scalability, maintainability, cost control, data quality checks, monitoring hooks, and clear ownership.\n\nCollaborate with manufacturing, finance, supply chain, quality, and other business teams to understand impact, prioritize recovery, and maintain trust in critical Databricks-supported solutions.\n\nSupport governance for citizen-built solutions by ensuring business-created applications have appropriate documentation, testing evidence, security review, support model, and IT transition plan before broad use.\n\nMonitor and problem solve service health, support metrics, incidents, problem records, platform risks, and improvement backlog items for Databricks applications and data products.\n\nDesign and develop automation, self-healing workflows, monitoring integrations, and operational tooling using Python and cloud-native technologies.\n\nJob Requirements\nEducation:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field required.\n\nMaster's degree preferred.\n\nExperience:\n5 or more years of progressive experience in site reliability engineering, data platform engineering, cloud operations, DevOps, software engineering, data engineering, or production application support.\n\n3 or more years supporting cloud, data, analytics, application, or platform services in production environments preferred.\n\nExperience with Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, SQL, Python, PySpark, notebooks, jobs/workflows, SQL warehouses, clusters, or lakehouse architecture.\n\nExperience operating applications through incident management, problem management, change management, monitoring, release management, and production readiness practices.\n\nPreferred experience with Azure, CI/CD pipelines, Git-based development, infrastructure patterns, logging, alerting, automation, and support runbooks.\n\nPreferred experience supporting data pipelines, analytics products, dashboards, APIs, AI-enabled applications, or business-critical reporting environments.\n\nFunctional / Technical Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:\nStrong understanding of SRE, DevOps, IT operations, and production support practices, including reliability, observability, automation, incident 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