Snowflake Administrator

What You’ll Do

- Observability: Monitor Snowflake queries, virtual warehouses, tasks, data loads, and overall account health. Identify and resolve operational issues.
- FinOps & Cost Optimization: Monitor credit consumption, storage, and warehouse costs. Optimize warehouse sizing, auto-suspend settings, and resource monitors.
- User Management: Manage Snowflake users, roles, onboarding, offboarding, and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).
- Privilege Access Management: Review grants, privileged roles, access policies, and audit logs to enforce the principle of least privilege.
- Platform Maintenance: Maintain Snowflake account settings, integrations, and routine operational health checks.
- Service Desk Management: Triage incidents and service requests, investigating query failures, access issues, and platform-related problems.
- Enhancements & Automation: Improve Snowflake configurations, automate operational tasks, and streamline support processes.
- Business Continuity & Recovery: Support backup and retention policies, Time Travel, Fail-secure, and data recovery procedures.
- Deployment & CI/CD: Support controlled releases of Snowflake objects, roles, scripts, and configurations through CI/CD pipelines.
- Data Load Troubleshooting: Resolve issues related to Snowpipe, COPY commands, stages, file formats, connectivity,



and scheduled data loads.
- Transformation & Data Model Support: Perform first-line troubleshooting of failed tasks, SQL errors, and schema changes.
- Functional Data Support: Investigate initial data availability and quality issues, coordinating with data owners for resolution.
- Project Support: Assist engineering teams with Snowflake environments, integrations, and migrations.
- Documentation: Maintain runbooks, access management procedures, operational guides, and knowledge base articles.

What We’re Looking For

- 5+ years of experience in data platform administration, operations, or production support, including hands-on Snowflake experience.
- Strong knowledge of Snowflake administration, including RBAC, virtual warehouses, query history, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake data loading, stages, tasks, Snowpipe, and cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.
- Proficiency in SQL and familiarity with Python for scripting and automation.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Jira, ITSM processes, and monitoring or automation tools.
- Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Skills:- Python, SQL server, Snow flake schema, CI/CD and Data Warehouse (DWH)

📌 Snowflake Administrator (Bengaluru)
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