Job Description

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.

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The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with Snowflake administration, role-based access control, performance tuning, monitoring, data security, and cloud data warehouse operations.

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Key Responsibilities

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- Administer Snowflake accounts, databases, schemas, warehouses, users, roles, and privileges.
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- Implement and maintain role-based access controls, least-privilege access, and security policies.
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- Monitor Snowflake usage, performance, storage, and credit consumption.
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- Optimize virtual warehouses, queries, workloads, and resource utilization.
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- Configure and manage integrations with cloud platforms, ETL tools, BI tools, and data pipelines.
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- Support data loading, replication, cloning, time travel, fail-secure, and disaster recovery activities.
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- Establish monitoring, alerting, auditing, and operational procedures.
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- Troubleshoot access, performance, connectivity, and data processing issues.
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- Partner with data engineers and analysts to support development, testing, and production environments.
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- Assist with Snowflake upgrades, releases, migrations, and environment refreshes.
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- Develop and maintain administrative documentation, runbooks, and support procedures.
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- Promote automation using SQL, Python, Terraform, or other approved tools.
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- Support compliance, governance, and audit requirements related to the data platform.
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Required Qualifications

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- 3+ years of experience administering Snowflake in an enterprise environment.
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- Strong knowledge of Snowflake architecture, security, RBAC, warehouses, databases, schemas, and resource monitors.
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- Experience with SQL and Snowflake performance optimization.
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- Experience managing users, roles, grants, authentication, and access governance.
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- Knowledge of data loading and integration patterns using tools such as Fivetran, Informatica, dbt, Matillion, or similar.
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- Experience with at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
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- Familiarity with monitoring, logging, incident management, and production support processes.
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- Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
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Preferred Qualifications

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- SnowPro Core or Snowflake Administrator certification.
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- Experience with Terraform, Git, CI/CD, or infrastructure-as-code practices.
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- Python or scripting experience for administrative automation.
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- Knowledge of Snowflake governance, masking policies, row access policies, tagging, and sensitive-data controls.
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- Experience with Snowflake replication, failover/failback, and disaster recovery.
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- Familiarity with tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Airflow, dbt, or cloud-native services.
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- Experience supporting regulated or highly controlled environments.
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Success Measures

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- Stable and reliable Snowflake platform operations.
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- Timely resolution of access, performance, and data platform issues.
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- Effective control of Snowflake compute and storage costs.
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- Consistent application of security and governance standards.
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- Well-documented administrative processes and operational runbooks.
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- Successful transition from contract to long-term employment, based on business need
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