Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Specialist (Databricks + AWS + Azure) (Mid-Level

Irth Solutions is a leading provider of cloud-based SaaS software for damage prevention, asset integrity, stakeholder engagement and land management, helping energy, utility, telecom, and infrastructure companies protect their critical network infrastructure. With nearly three decades of industry experience, Irth serves customers across North America and continues to expand its platform with new data-driven and AI-powered capabilities.

Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Specialist – Insights (AI/ML)

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, cloud administration, or a closely related role.
• Hands-on experience working with both AWS and Microsoft Azure, including:
• IAM and role provisioning
• Cloud networking
• Storage services
• Compute and platform resources
• Hands-on experience administering Databricks, including:
• Workspace provisioning and configuration
• Unity Catalog
• Catalogs and schemas
• Metastores
• Cluster policies
• Workspace and data-access controls
• Working knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools, with Terraform preferred. Experience with Azure ARM/Bicep or AWS CloudFormation is also valuable.
• Strong understanding of Identity and Access Management (IAM) concepts, including:
• RBAC
• Least-privilege access
• Service principals
• Managed identities
• SSO
• SCIM
• SAML
• Familiarity with cloud networking and security fundamentals, including:
• VPC/VNet architecture
• Subnets and routing
• Private connectivity
• Network segmentation
• Secrets management
• Encryption
• Key management
• Ability to quickly troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, identity, permission, and platform-access issues that may block engineering teams.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain infrastructure and access issues clearly to Data Engineering, Data Science, MLOps, and other technical teams.
• Familiarity with enterprise compliance and security frameworks, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR.
• Understanding of audit logging, access reviews, administrative activity tracking, and evidence collection.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting multiple engineering teams—including Data Engineering, Data Science, and MLOps—with workspace, catalog, schema, compute, and access provisioning.
• Experience with infrastructure and platform CI/CD, including:
• GitHub Actions
• Databricks Asset Bundles (DABs)
• Infrastructure deployment automation
• DEV → QA → PROD environment promotion
• Knowledge of FinOps and cloud cost-management practices, including:
• Resource tagging
• Budgets
• Cost monitoring
• Showback/chargeback
• Cost anomaly detection and alerting
• Experience implementing cloud and Databricks policies that balance security, reliability, developer productivity, and cost efficiency.
• Relevant industry certifications, such as:
• AWS Solutions Architect
• Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect
• Azure Administrator
• Databricks Platform Administrator
• Equivalent cloud or platform certifications

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Experience onboarding Asset Integrity Pipeline data, including inspection, risk, maintenance, and compliance datasets, into a governed enterprise data estate.
• Experience designing catalogs, schemas, storage structures, and access controls for asset-integrity or infrastructure datasets.
• Experience provisioning infrastructure and access for utility, energy, oil & gas, pipeline, or asset-integrity data sources with elevated security or compliance requirements.
• Familiarity with GIS and geospatial data storage, networking, access, and platform-integration patterns relevant to pipeline and infrastructure datasets.
• Understanding of regulatory and compliance reporting requirements associated with pipeline, utility, energy, or asset-integrity data.
• Experience working with infrastructure and data platforms where data residency, auditability, security, and controlled access are critical requirements.