Role Summary
We are looking for a technically strong Snowflake Database Administrator to own end-to-end administration, performance engineering, security governance, and cost optimization of our Snowflake cloud data platform. This role requires deep hands-on expertise across account/object administration, RBAC and security architecture, warehouse and query performance tuning, Python-based automation, and Snowflake's native AI stack (Cortex AI, Streamlit-in-Snowflake). The candidate will act as the platform SME, partnering with data engineering, BI, security, and application teams to keep the platform performant, secure, cost-efficient, and audit ready.
Key Responsibilities
Platform Administration & Operations
- Administer Snowflake accounts, databases, schemas, warehouses, resource monitors, and integrations across DEV/QA/UAT/PROD environments.
- Manage account-level and object-level parameters, network policies, and multi-region / multi-account topology.
- Configure and maintain storage integrations, external stages, external tables,



and Snowpipe / Snowpipe Streaming for continuous data ingestion.
- Manage Time Travel, Fail-safe, zero-copy cloning, and data retention policies; validate and troubleshoot storage vs. Fail-secure billing anomalies.

Security, RBAC & Governance
- Design and maintain a hierarchical RBAC model (functional roles → technical roles → system roles) aligned to least-privilege principles.
- Own object ownership, grants management, future grants, and role inheritance across databases, schemas, and warehouses.
- Configure authentication mechanisms — SSO/SAML, RSA key-pair, MFA — and manage service account lifecycle and key rotation.
- Implement data governance controls: row access policies, column-level masking policies, tags/tag-based masking, and object tagging for classification.
- Maintain audit readiness via ACCESS_HISTORY, QUERY_HISTORY, LOGIN_HISTORY, and GRANTS_TO_ROLES monitoring, and support SOX/compliance audits.

Performance Engineering

📌 Snowflake DBA (Hyderabad)
🏢 Quess Corp
📍 Hyderabad