Role: Snowflake Admin/DBA with RBAC experience & Cortex AI experience
Location:Remote
experience:8+
Responsibilities:
Implementing security controls, including role-based access control (RBAC), data masking, encryption, and related capabilities.
Building Streamlit applications within Snowflake and working with Cortex AI.
Cost & Compute Management
Warehouse Sizing: Tuning virtual warehouse clusters, adjusting auto-suspend/resume times, and setting up scaling policies to balance query speed with credit consumption.
Resource Monitors: Creating budgets and alerts to monitor account-level and warehouse-level usage, preventing unintended budget overruns.
Security & Governance
Access Control: Designing and maintaining Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) hierarchies, assigning privileges, and troubleshooting permission issues.
Data Privacy: Enforcing network policies, Row-Level Security, Column-Level Security (masking policies), and data classification tagging.
Performance Tuning
Query Optimization: Investigating sluggish workloads using tools like ACCOUNT_USAGE views and the Snowflake Query Profile.
Data Layout: Optimizing table structures by configuring clustering keys, materialized views, and the Search Optimization Service.
Backup & Disaster Recovery
Data Lifecycle: Managing Time Travel retention periods and Fail-safe configurations.
Replication: Setting up database replication and failover across multiple cloud regions or accounts to maintain high availability.
Deployment & Operations
Workplace Management: Overseeing database migration to Snowflake, object cloning, and promoting DDL changes across DEV, QA, and PROD environments.
Automation: Automating administrative tasks and alerts using Python or shell scripts.