Database Administrator II / Senior (Snowflake / Cloud / On-Prem)

Position Summary:

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.

Key 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, dynamic 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, and SQL Agent/SSIS jobs.
- Own and regularly test backup and recovery procedures against defined RTO/RPO targets across all

environments.




- Enforce database security and auditing controls sufficient to satisfy internal audit and regulatory

examination.
- Automate routine administration using Python, PowerShell, and/or Terraform to eliminate manual

toil.
- Manage database objects and permissions through source-controlled, peer-reviewed CI/CD

deployment.
- Support secure authentication and credential management, including key-pair authentication and

related configuration changes.
- Build monitoring, alerting, and observability for availability, performance, capacity, and cost.
- Participate in on-call rotation; lead incident response and root cause analysis for database-related

outages.
- Maintain runbooks, architecture documentation, and operational procedures so the team is not

dependent on any single person.
- Serve as the escalation point for complex database issues and mentor engineers on tuning and best

practices.
- Support onboarding and integration of current data and AI technologies, ensuring appropriate security,

access, and operational controls are in place.
- Partner with data engineering, architects, analytics, application development, security, accounting,

and business teams on architecture and operational decisions. Core Competencies and Educational Qualifications:

- Bachelor's or Masters degree in CS, Engineering, or related technical field.
- 3 to 6 years of database administration experience, including 2+ years administering Snowflake in

production.
- Demonstrated expertise in Snowflake performance tuning and credit/cost optimization at enterprise

scale.
- Experience working across multiple cloud technologies and data platforms, with the ability to quickly

learn and adopt new technologies.
- Deep, hands-on SQL Server administration experience across on-premises and Azure (SQL Database





and/or Managed Instance).
- Expert-level SQL, including complex query authoring, execution plan analysis, and optimization.
- Proven experience designing and implementing RBAC and data security controls.
- Experience managing database/data-platform access and partnering with security teams to remediate

security findings.
- Hands-on high availability and disaster recovery experience with tested, documented recovery

procedures.
- Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, PowerShell, or equivalent.
- Familiarity with CI/CD workflow, source-controlled database change management, and deployment

processes.
- Strong incident response skills and comfort operating under production pressure.
- Write clean, well-documented code and procedures that can be easily maintained and extended by

the team.
- Provide support for critical production systems as needed.
- Strong problem-solving skills , Exceptional attention to detail and strong ownership of operational

accuracy and quality.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain technical trade-offs

to non-technical stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to build trusted partnerships across technical and business teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

- SnowPro Advanced: Administrator or SnowPro Advanced: Architect certification.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate.
- Familiarity in Mortgage Space or another regulated financial services environment.
- Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform) for database and warehouse provisioning.
- Familiarity with Airflow, or comparable transformation and orchestration tooling.
- Experience supporting analytics and machine learning workloads, not only transactional systems.
- Prior experience leading a database platform migration or major version upgrade.
- Experience with Databricks or other modern cloud data platforms.
- Experience supporting AI/ML platforms, tools, or integrations.
- Experience with cloud security, authentication, key management, and access governance.
- Experience supporting US-based stakeholders across multiple business and technology functions

📌 Database Administrator II / Senior (Snowflake / Cloud / On-Prem) (Chennai)
🏢 Mgtechnosolutions
📍 Chennai