Job Description Snowflake Administrator

Role: Snowflake Administrator / Senior Snowflake Administrator

Job Summary:
We are looking for an experienced Snowflake Administrator with strong expertise in enterprise Snowflake platform administration, security, performance optimization, automation, and integration with contemporary data platforms such as Databricks. The candidate will be responsible for managing Snowflake environments, implementing security and governance standards, optimizing platform performance and cost, and supporting data engineering and analytics workloads.

Key Responsibilities
Administer and manage Snowflake databases, schemas, warehouses, roles, users, integrations, and accounts.
Implement and maintain RBAC, security roles, access controls, masking policies, and data-sharing standards.
Manage Snowflake security, authentication, authorization, and governance requirements.
Perform query performance tuning, warehouse optimization, clustering, and micro-partitioning.
Monitor Snowflake workloads, resource utilization, storage, and credit consumption.
Identify and implement Snowflake cost optimization / FinOps strategies.
Automate Snowflake provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and operational activities using SQL, Snowflake APIs, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.




Troubleshoot Snowflake platform, connectivity, performance, and integration issues.
Manage Snowflake integrations with Databricks for ETL/ELT and ML workloads.
Support external tables, Iceberg tables, hybrid storage, and interoperability between Snowflake and Databricks.
Implement monitoring, alerting, incident handling, and operational best practices.
Support backup, recovery, replication, and business continuity requirements.
Collaborate with Data Engineering, DevOps, Security, Cloud, and Application teams.
Maintain platform documentation, standards, and operational procedures.
Support Snowflake upgrades, migrations, enhancements, and recent workplace provisioning.

Mandatory Skills
Snowflake Administration
Snowflake Database / Schema / Warehouse Administration
RBAC & Security
Masking Policies & Data Sharing
Performance Tuning & Query Optimization
Clustering & Micro-partitioning
SQL
Python / Shell Scripting
Terraform
CI/CD
Snowflake monitoring and cost optimization

Good to Have Skills
Databricks
Snowflake–Databricks integration
ETL / ELT
Iceberg
External Tables
Hybrid Storage
Snowflake APIs
Data Governance
Cloud platforms – AWS / Azure / GCP

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