We are looking for a highly motivated, hands-on Principal Database Administrator to own the performance, availability, security, and cost efficiency of our enterprise data platform and databases across Snowflake, Azure, and on-premises SQL Server. This is a senior technical role responsible for administering our Snowflake account end to end, tuning complex workloads, enforcing least-privilege access in a regulated environment, and establishing the automation, security, documentation, and operational standards a growing data organization depends on.

Responsibilities
• Own end-to-end Snowflake administration: account, warehouse, database, schema, and role architecture.
• Design and maintain a scalable RBAC model with least-privilege enforcement and clean role inheritance.
• Manage database and platform access requests, ensuring appropriate approvals, security controls, and timely provisioning.
• Manage warehouse sizing, auto-suspend/resume, and multi-cluster configuration for workload isolation.
• Monitor and optimize Snowflake credit consumption; implement resource monitors,



cost center reporting, and proactive spend alerting.
• Tune query and pipeline performance using Query Profile, clustering keys, micro-partition pruning, materialized views, and Search Optimization.
• Administer Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks, storage integrations, Secure Data Sharing, and cross-region replication.
• Implement column-level security, energetic data masking, row access policies, and data classification tagging for sensitive data.
• Support administration, access, security, and integration patterns across Databricks and other cloud data platforms.
• Partner closely with Security to identify, remediate, and prevent database and data-platform security findings.
• Administer Azure SQL Database and Managed Instance, including geo-replication, auto-failover groups, and backup/restore strategy.
• Administer on-premises SQL Server: patching, upgrades, Always On Availability Groups, replication, a

📌 Database Administrator (Chennai)
🏢 NAF Technology India
📍 Chennai