Platform Engineer (Snowflake)
About The Position
The Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer provides hands-on technical leadership for the administration, reliability, security, performance, and cost optimization of an enterprise Snowflake platform. The role partners with Data Engineering, Architecture, Security, and business teams to support a secure, scalable, and efficient data platform for critical enterprise workloads. The ideal candidate brings practical Snowflake administration experience, strong SQL and performance-tuning skills, and the ability to independently troubleshoot complex production issues and implement platform improvements. This is a contract-to-hire position based fully onsite in Cincinnati, Ohio. The listed pay range is $75.00–$118.00 per hour. Benefits may be available to eligible employees and may include medical, dental and vision coverage; critical illness, accident and hospital coverage; a 401(k) retirement plan; life insurance; short- and long-term disability; a health spending account; transportation benefits; an employee assistance program; and time off or leave. Eligibility and availability may depend on job classification, length of employment, elections, and applicable plan terms.
Requirements
- Extensive hands-on experience administering and supporting Snowflake in a production enterprise environment.
- Strong knowledge of Snowflake architecture, virtual warehouses, micro-partitions, caching, query execution, and resource consumption.
- Advanced SQL skills and demonstrated experience diagnosing and resolving query performance issues.
- Practical experience implementing Snowflake RBAC, role hierarchies, grants, access policies, and secure access patterns.
- Experience with warehouse sizing, workload management, cost monitoring, and compute optimization.
- Experience troubleshooting production incidents and improving platform reliability.
- Strong understanding of database administration, data governance, and enterprise security practices.
- Ability to work independently, communicate effectively, and provide clear technical documentation.
Nice To Haves
- Experience integrating Snowflake with AWS S3, IAM, Glue, and enterprise data pipelines.
- Python or shell scripting for automation and administrative tasks.
- Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools.
- Familiarity with Snowflake resource monitors, ACCOUNT_USAGE views, ORGANIZATION_USAGE views, and query history analysis.
- Experience with Snowflake security features such as masking policies, row access policies, network policies, and authentication integrations.
- Experience with Snowflake workload management, multi-cluster warehouses, replication, failover, and business continuity.
- SnowPro Core or Advanced certification.
- Experience in financial services or another regulated enterprise environment.
Responsibilities
- Administer the Snowflake platform, including user and role management, access controls, warehouse configuration, resource monitoring, and operational support.
- Analyze and optimize query performance, warehouse utilization, concurrency, and compute costs using Snowflake monitoring and account usage capabilities.
- Implement and maintain role-based access control, least-privilege access, service accounts, authentication integrations, and data protection controls.
- Establish platform standards for warehouse sizing, auto-suspend and auto-resume, resource monitors, workload isolation, and cost management.
- Monitor platform health, investigate incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventative reliability measures.
- Manage database objects and platform hygiene, including schemas, tables, views, retention settings, and obsolete resource cleanup.
- Support data integration and connectivity with AWS services, including S3, IAM, and relevant ingestion and processing tools.
- Automate administrative tasks and operational processes using SQL, Python, scripting, and APIs.
- Develop operational dashboards, documentation, and procedures for monitoring, incident response, access reviews, and cost reporting.
- Collaborate with engineering teams on platform architecture, upgrades, new capabilities, and enterprise data initiatives.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Critical illness, accident, and hospital coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan with pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
- Life insurance, including voluntary Life and AD&D coverage for employees and dependents
- Short- and long-term disability
- Health Spending Account (HSA)
- Transportation benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Time off/leave, including PTO, vacation, or sick leave
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Senior
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