Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Snowflake Administrator to manage, monitor, secure, and optimize enterprise Snowflake data warehouse environments. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring platform availability, performance, security, and cost efficiency while supporting production operations and collaborating with cross-functional teams across data engineering, analytics, and cloud platforms.

Key Responsibilities
Administer and manage Snowflake accounts, databases, schemas, virtual warehouses, resource monitors, and storage.
Configure and maintain role-based access control (RBAC), users, roles, permissions, and security policies.
Monitor Snowflake platform health, warehouse utilization, query performance, and resource consumption.
Perform query optimization, warehouse tuning, and cost optimization to improve system performance and efficiency.
Support production incidents by troubleshooting issues, performing root cause analysis (RCA), and implementing preventive measures.
Manage Snowflake features such as Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks,



Time Travel, Fail-secure, Data Sharing, and Replication.
Plan and execute backup, disaster recovery, workplace refreshes, migrations, and release management activities.
Collaborate with Data Engineering, BI, Analytics, DevOps, and Cloud teams to ensure reliable platform operations.
Automate routine administrative tasks using scripting where applicable.
Maintain operational documentation, security standards, and governance best practices.

Required Technical Skills
Solid hands-on experience with Snowflake Administration
Expertise in SQL and Query Performance Tuning
Experience with RBAC, user provisioning, security, and access management
Hands-on experience with Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks, Resource Monitors, Time Travel, and Data Sharing
Performance monitoring and cost optimization of Snowflake environments
Experience with AWS and/or Microsoft Azure cloud platforms
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📌 Snowflake Administrator Hyderabad (India)
🏢 Zorba Consulting India
📍 India