I am a data engineer working with Databases, Data Lakes, Synapse and Databricks in Microsoft Azure. Some of the problems I encountered could not be solved with SQL or Python, but instead required the skills of an Azure Admin. And since all the real ones were busy, I had to administrate the things myself.

I will show with real world examples I encountered what parts of the Azure Admin Tool Chest can be relevant for the humble data engineer. I will explain:

- what headache could have been prevented with delete locks

- why I should have adhered to the principle of least privileged when assigning RBAC roles to access my Synapse workspace.

- what is RBAC anyway

- how to set up cost management to prevent Databricks or Azure Synapse stampeding over your budget
- where monitoring your resources and setting up basic alerts makes sense to prevent common catastrophes

In this session, we’ll look beyond the traditional tasks of the data engineer and see what’s there in the realm of Azure Administration. This knowledge can empower you to solve problems when others are too busy. The Azure Admin Tool Chest makes your skillset more well-rounded.