We are currently looking for an experienced Application Support Engineer - Azure / Databricks to join a major financial services client as part of their Application Support Managed Services team. This is a long-term contract opportunity (12 months+), ideally Melbourne-based, although we're flexible to consider strong candidates in other Australian locations.

Duration: 12 months+
Start: ASAP
Location: Melbourne preferred - versatile for the right person
Industry: Financial Services
Engagement: Application Support / Managed Services

The Role

You'll be responsible for supporting and maintaining a production Azure/Databricks data environment, troubleshooting issues, managing deployments and infrastructure, and working closely with technical and business stakeholders.

Key Skills & Experience

- Solid hands-on experience with Azure and Databricks within production/application support environments.
- Experience across Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Azure Data Factory, Blob Storage, Key Vault and Azure DevOps.
- Strong Databricks knowledge including jobs, pipelines, notebooks, clusters, volumes, catalog/schema management and permissions.
- Good understanding of Lakehouse and Medallion Architecture,



including ELT workloads using dbt.
- Strong knowledge of Spark / PySpark / SparkSQL, including Spark internals and using Spark UI for performance troubleshooting.
- Experience with Terraform, Git/GitOps, YAML, JSON and Shell/Bash/PowerShell.
- Monitoring and troubleshooting experience using Azure Log Analytics and Splunk.
- Strong production support capability including root cause analysis, performance/resource analysis, data reconciliation and incident resolution.
- Experience managing CI/CD pipelines, deployment dependencies, secrets/credential rotation and DR/failover processes.
- Comfortable managing integrations and connections across APIs, JDBC and direct connectivity.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to provide explicit reporting and updates to business and technical stakeholders.
- If you have strong Azure + Databricks experience and enjoy working across application support, data platforms and cloud infrastructure, I'd be keen to hear from you.

Additional information

- Melbourne
- 12 Months+
- Azure and Databricks

📌 Application Support Engineer - Azure/Databricks (Melbourne)
🏢 TalentReady
📍 Melbourne