Snowflake Administrator

We are seeking a skilled Snowflake Administrator to manage, secure, optimize, and support our Snowflake data platform. This role will partner with data engineering, analytics, security, and application teams to ensure a reliable, scalable, and cost-effective environment.
The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with Snowflake administration, role-based access control, performance tuning, monitoring, data security, and cloud data warehouse operations.
Key Responsibilities
Administer Snowflake accounts, databases, schemas, warehouses, users, roles, and privileges.
Implement and maintain role-based access controls, least-privilege access, and security policies.
Monitor Snowflake usage, performance, storage, and credit consumption.
Optimize virtual warehouses, queries, workloads, and resource utilization.
Configure and manage integrations with cloud platforms, ETL tools, BI tools, and data pipelines.
Support data loading, replication, cloning, time travel, fail-safe, and disaster recovery activities.
Establish monitoring, alerting, auditing, and operational procedures.
Troubleshoot access, performance, connectivity, and data processing issues.
Partner with data engineers and analysts to support development, testing, and production environments.
Assist with Snowflake upgrades, releases, migrations, and environment refreshes.
Develop and maintain administrative documentation, runbooks, and support procedures.
Promote automation using SQL, Python, Terraform, or other approved tools.
Support compliance, governance, and audit requirements related to the data platform.
Required Qualifications
3+ years of experience administering Snowflake in an enterprise environment.
Strong knowledge of Snowflake architecture, security, RBAC, warehouses, databases, schemas, and resource monitors.
Experience with SQL and Snowflake performance optimization.
Experience managing users, roles, grants, authentication, and access governance.
Knowledge of data loading and integration patterns using tools such as Fivetran, Informatica, dbt, Matillion, or similar.
Experience with at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
Familiarity with monitoring, logging, incident management, and production support processes.
Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
SnowPro Core or Snowflake Administrator certification.
Experience with Terraform, Git, CI/CD, or infrastructure-as-code practices.
Python or scripting experience for administrative automation.
Knowledge of Snowflake governance, masking policies, row access policies, tagging, and sensitive-data controls.
Experience with Snowflake replication, failover/failback, and disaster recovery.
Familiarity with tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Airflow, dbt, or cloud-native services.
Experience supporting regulated or highly controlled environments.
Success Measures
Stable and reliable Snowflake platform operations.
Timely resolution of access, performance, and data platform issues.
Effective control of Snowflake compute and storage costs.
Consistent application of security and governance standards.
Well-documented administrative processes and operational runbooks.
Successful transition from contract to long-term employment, based on business need

Work arrangement
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