Key Responsibilities
- Administer and support Snowflake environments across development, testing, and production
- Manage user access, service accounts, roles, and permissions using Snowflake RBAC best practices
- Configure, maintain, and optimize Snowflake warehouses for performance and cost efficiency
- Monitor platform health, query performance, and resource utilization
- Troubleshoot and resolve Snowflake performance, access, and operational issues
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
- Support CI/CD processes utilizing GitHub and GitHub Actions
- Implement cost-monitoring strategies and provide recommendations to optimize Snowflake consumption
- Partner with engineering and analytics teams to support data pipeline integration and operational needs
- Assist with data platform migrations, including Snowflake on Google Cloud Platform and BigQuery migration initiatives
- Maintain platform documentation, governance standards, and operational procedures
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in database administration, data platform engineering, or cloud data warehouse administration
- Strong hands-on experience administering Snowflake in production environments
- Deep understanding of:
- Snowflake RBAC
- User and service account provisioning
- Role and permission management
- Security and governance best practices
- Experience managing Snowflake warehouses, auto-suspend/resume configurations, multi-cluster warehouses, and resource monitors
- Advanced SQL skills with experience troubleshooting performance issues and optimizing workloads
- Experience utilizing Snowflake ACCOUNT_USAGE and INFORMATION_SCHEMA views
- Strong Terraform experience managing Snowflake resources as code
- Experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions
- Working knowledge of Linux/Unix environments and shell scripting
- Strong communication skills and ability to work independently in a remote environment
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform)
- Experience with BigQuery administration or migration projects
- Familiarity with Python and data engineering workflows
- Experience supporting dbt, Kafka, or similar data pipelines
- Knowledge of data lakehouse architectures
Rate:
Not specified
Location:
Remote
IR35 Status:
Outside
Remote Status:
Remote
Industry:
IT
Seniority Level:
Senior