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Senior Specialist Solutions Engineer - Platform Security and Cloud Infrastructure

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Amsterdam, Netherlands

Field Engineering - Other

About the Role

At Databricks, a Most Loved Workplace® certified employer in the Technology space, Democratizing data and AI for every organization worldwide.

(FEQ427R351) Senior Specialist Solutions Engineer - Platform Security and Cloud Infrastructure

As a Senior Specialist Solutions Engineer, you will guide customers in building big data solutions on Databricks that span a large variety of use cases. This is a customer-facing role that works with and supports the Field Engineering pre-sales teams and requires hands-on production experience with cloud infrastructure and big data technologies. Specialist Solutions Engineers help customers through the design and successful implementation of essential workloads while aligning their technical roadmap to expand the use of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. As a deep go-to-expert reporting to the Specialist Field Engineering Manager, you will continue to strengthen your technical skills through mentorship, learning, and internal training programs to continuously consolidate the skills in your area of speciality.&nbsp;&nbsp;

<h3>The impact you will have:</h3>

<ul>

<li>Technical thought leader:&nbsp;</li>

<ul>

<li>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</li>

<li>Assist Solution Architects with more advanced aspects of the technical sale, including custom proof of concept content, workload sizing, and custom architectures</li>

</ul>

Cloud Infra &amp; Security Expertise

<ul>

<li>Architect production-level cloud native governed workloads</li>

<li>Provide technical expertise in cloud infrastructure and security relating to our&nbsp; Databricks Lakehouse Platform&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>

</ul>

<li>Community &amp; Adoption: Enable adoption by leading workshops, hackathons, and conference presentations, while actively contributing to the broader Databricks community.</li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li>Pre-sales or post-sales experience working with external customers (or internal clients/stakeholders) across industries</li>

<li>4+ years of experience designing Cloud infrastructure/Security and services, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, applying best practices in cloud security and networking, including:&nbsp;</li>

<ul>

<li>Architecting, designing, deploying, and maintaining cloud networks and connectivity (VPC/VNet design, routing, segmentation, private connectivity).</li>

<li>Identity &amp; Access Management (e.g. role-based access control, using the principle of least privilege, integration with IdPs, etc)</li>

<li>Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure automation (e.g. Terraform or cloud-specific resource management tools like ARM, CloudFormation, etc).&nbsp;</li>

</ul>

<li>Experience supporting customers (external or internal) 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.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>

<li>Hands-on experience with prompt engineering, vibe coding and agentic tools</li>

<li>Foundational knowledge of large-scale processing/analytical engines for data pipeline architecture design.&nbsp;</li>

<li>Databricks Certification(s) will be advantageous for the role. &nbsp;</li>

</ul>

Notes on the role:

<ul>

<li>This will be an office-based contract (Amsterdam), with a hybrid schedule, requiring up to 30% travel when needed for customer visits, events &amp; trainings.&nbsp;</li>

<li>An initial 12-month fixed-term contract is to be offered, with the expectation of extending/converting to FTE upon successful completion of the probation period. &nbsp;</li>

</ul>

#LI-hybrid<div class="content-conclusion">About Databricks

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&amp;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 <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/Databricks">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://x.com/Databricks">X</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@Databricks">YouTube</a>, and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/databricksinc/?hl=en">Instagram</a>. Benefits At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/154un3e8Xav4BceOSlcYFZRGEuQI54xMxVydRwQn54eQ/edit?usp=sharing">here</a>.

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Databricks’ CEO and Co-founder, Ali Ghodsi leads by example with a focus on truth-seeking and first principles thinking, two of Databricks’ core values that stay true to Databricks’s origins in academia. He champions the importance of data and reason to question biases and inform decisions. Ali remains hands-on with research and development and hosts company-wide weekly all hands, with a CEO “ask me anytime” session at the beginning of every agenda. His transparency and accessibility are core to the open and collaborative culture of Databricks.

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At Databricks, we cultivate an environment where all employees can bring their unique selves and are empowered to do the best work of their careers. To ensure all voices are heard and ideas are valued, we conduct annual culture and pulse surveys and host all-hands Q&As to collect feedback from all employees. We then report back to Databricks on the specific changes implemented from the feedback collected to ensure employees feel heard and that their feedback is valued. In addition, we invest in our seven Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that offer support and employee engagement events for individuals from underrepresented backgrounds and allies.

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Databricks prioritizes offering an exceptional employee experience by investing in tools, workspaces, and community-building. Our collaboration-first, hybrid model offers flexibility with in-person touchpoints like our annual employee kickoff, weekly CEO all-hands with happy hours, and monthly team building budgets. We are especially focused on maintaining a culture of transparency, honesty, and trust, with leaders actively engaging across channels like Slack and all hands while also championing inclusion efforts through ERG sponsorship. These initiatives help our team feel connected, valued, and empowered to do their best work.

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With the Data Intelligence Platform, Databricks democratizes insights to everyone in an organization. Built on an open lakehouse architecture, the Data Intelligence Platform provides a unified foundation for all data and governance, combined with AI models tuned to an organization’s unique characteristics. Now, anyone in an organization can benefit from automation and natural language to discover and use data like experts, and technical teams can easily build and deploy secure data and AI apps and products. With origins in academia and the open source community, Databricks was founded in 2013 by the original creators of the lakehouse architecture and open source projects Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, MLflow and Unity Catalog.

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