Azure Platform Administrator
Etihad
Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Abu Dhabi
Contract type: Full time

Synopsis
We are seeking an experienced and self-driven Azure Platform Administrator to manage and support our Azure-based data platform infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have strong knowledge of Azure Databricks, Data Lake, and Data Factory, with a primary focus on platform administration, environment stability, access management, monitoring, and performance optimization. You will work closely with engineering and data teams to ensure secure, reliable, and scalable data platform operations across the organization.
Accountabilities
Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, was formed in 2003 and quickly went on to become one of the world’s leading airlines. From its home in Abu Dhabi, Etihad flies to passenger and cargo destinations in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia and North America. Together with Etihad’s codeshare partners, Etihad’s network offers access to hundreds of international destinations. In recent years, Etihad has received numerous awards for its superior service and products, cargo offering, loyalty programme and more. Etihad is recognised as one of the world’s leading airlines in response to COVID-19 and was the first airline in the world to fully vaccinate its crew on board.
Etihad sees tackling the climate crisis as the most important issue of our time, and through strategic partnerships with major global aviation brands and OEMs, Etihad is relentless in its pursuit of industry decarbonisation.
To learn more, visit etihad.com
We are seeking an experienced and self-driven Azure Platform Administrator to manage and support our Azure-based data platform infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have strong knowledge of Azure Databricks, Data Lake, and Data Factory, with a primary focus on platform administration, environment stability, access management, monitoring, and performance optimization. You will work closely with engineering and data teams to ensure secure, reliable, and scalable data platform operations across the organization.
Accountabilities
- Evaluate business needs and objectives
- Identify opportunities for data acquisition
- Analyze and organize raw data
- Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture, Interpret trends and patterns / Build algorithms and prototypes
- Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
- Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
- Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and ‘ big data ’ technologies.
- Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.
- Graduate degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related quantitative field.
- 4–6 years of experience in a Platform Administrator role or a similar infrastructure-focused position.
- Proven experience in Azure platform administration, including network and VPN integration, access control, and security best practices.
- Advanced knowledge of Azure Databricks, Data Factory, Data Lake, and Synapse Analytics is required.
- Strong SQL skills with experience working on both relational and non-relational databases.
- Experience building and managing processes to support data transformation, metadata management, dependency tracking, and workload orchestration.
Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, was formed in 2003 and quickly went on to become one of the world’s leading airlines. From its home in Abu Dhabi, Etihad flies to passenger and cargo destinations in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia and North America. Together with Etihad’s codeshare partners, Etihad’s network offers access to hundreds of international destinations. In recent years, Etihad has received numerous awards for its superior service and products, cargo offering, loyalty programme and more. Etihad is recognised as one of the world’s leading airlines in response to COVID-19 and was the first airline in the world to fully vaccinate its crew on board.
Etihad sees tackling the climate crisis as the most important issue of our time, and through strategic partnerships with major global aviation brands and OEMs, Etihad is relentless in its pursuit of industry decarbonisation.
To learn more, visit etihad.com
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