Senior Specialist Solutions Engineer – Platform Security & Cloud Infrastructure

About the role

As a Senior Specialist Solutions Engineer you will guide customers in building big‑data solutions on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform, focusing on platform security and cloud infrastructure. The role is customer‑facing, supports Field Engineering pre‑sales teams and involves hands‑on production experience with cloud services.

Key responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to guide strategic customers through architectural, security, and deployment best practices, including automation.
• Architect production‑level cloud‑native governed workloads and advise on security for the Databricks Lakehouse Platform.
• Enable adoption by leading workshops, hackathons, and conference presentations while contributing to the broader Databricks community.

Required profile

• Pre‑sales or post‑sales experience working with external customers across industries.
• 4+ years designing cloud infrastructure and security on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including VPC/VNet design, routing, segmentation, and private connectivity.
• Experience supporting customers in designing and implementing a security lakehouse/security data platform on Databricks.
• Hands‑on experience with prompt engineering, vibe coding, and agentic tools.
• Foundational knowledge of large‑scale processing/analytical engines for data pipeline architecture.
• Databricks certifications are advantageous.

Required skills

• AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform
• VPC, VNet, routing, network segmentation, private connectivity
• Identity and Access Management (RBAC, least‑privilege, IdP integration)
• Terraform, ARM, CloudFormation
• Databricks Lakehouse Platform
• Prompt engineering
• Vibe coding
• Agentic tools
• Large‑scale data processing engines