Platform Engineer (Data bricks) at Virtusa
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Jun 28, 2026
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Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
An offshore, Bangalore-based platform engineering role focused on administering and operating a Databricks environment that underpins enterprise analytics, data engineering, and ML/AI workloads. Day-to-day work covers managing workspaces, clusters, and streaming ingestion pipelines (Kafka, Azure messaging), enforcing Unity Catalog governance, building Terraform infrastructure-as-code, and implementing CI/CD — all within an Azure ecosystem and a follow-the-sun support model. Suited to an experienced Databricks or Spark platform administrator comfortable with both operational and infrastructure-as-code responsibilities.
Senior level · 4+ years · Bangalore, India · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $139,500 (middle half $109,370–$169,290).
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Why we read it this way (7)
This role is based in Bangalore, India (explicitly stated as an offshore role); US compensation benchmarks do not apply.
SOC classification is a genuine toss-up: the role's primary work is administering and architecting a Databricks/Delta Lake lakehouse platform (pointing to 15-1243 Database Architects), but it also involves writing Terraform IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and streaming ingestion code (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers). 15-1243 was chosen because platform governance, Unity Catalog administration, and data architecture patterns are the dominant framing.
Kafka is listed as a required skill under qualifications with 'or Azure messaging services' as the substitution qualifier; Azure Service Bus and Azure Event Hubs are captured as alternatives. Confluent is listed separately under Preferred Skills only.
Azure Monitor and Dynatrace appear in the required responsibilities section as operational tools, but are explicitly called out again under Preferred Skills as 'familiarity with' — demoted to preferred on the basis of the Preferred Skills framing, which is the more specific and secondary placement.
The Bachelor's degree requirement is stated without an 'or equivalent experience' escape clause, so it is treated as a hard requirement.
No compensation range was provided in the posting.
This role's work location reads as outside the US — the candidate pool, comp, and contention benchmarks here are US-only (BLS employment, Adzuna/USAJOBS demand, and certified H-1B wages), so treat them as a rough US reference, not a local market.
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