Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer
About The Position
The Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer will manage, secure, optimize, and maintain an enterprise Snowflake data platform. The role focuses on platform reliability, compute cost optimization, security best practices, production support, and integrations with AWS services. The engineer will work with Data Engineering, Architecture, Security, and business teams to keep the platform secure, scalable, efficient, and aligned with enterprise standards. The position includes administering Snowflake accounts and database objects, optimizing SQL and warehouse workloads, implementing access controls, monitoring platform health, troubleshooting production issues, and automating operational tasks. It also involves developing monitoring dashboards, documentation, incident response procedures, and cost reports, as well as supporting enterprise data initiatives and compliance requirements.
Requirements
- Extensive hands-on experience administering Snowflake in a production enterprise environment.
- Strong understanding of Snowflake architecture, virtual warehouses, micro-partitions, caching, and query execution.
- Advanced SQL skills and demonstrated experience in query performance tuning and troubleshooting.
- Practical experience implementing Snowflake RBAC, role hierarchies, grants, and access policies.
- Experience with warehouse sizing, resource utilization, workload management, and cost optimization.
- Strong production support and troubleshooting skills, including root cause analysis.
- Knowledge of database administration, data governance, and enterprise security practices.
- Experience monitoring platform performance and improving operational reliability.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and technical documentation skills.
- Hands-on Snowflake administration in production, advanced SQL and query tuning, warehouse management and cost optimization, security and access management, and production troubleshooting and platform operations.
Nice To Haves
- Experience integrating Snowflake with AWS S3, IAM, AWS Glue, and enterprise data pipelines.
- Experience automating administrative tasks using Python or shell scripting.
- Familiarity with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools.
- Knowledge of Snowflake replication, failover, multi-cluster warehouses, and business continuity.
- Experience with advanced Snowflake security features and authentication mechanisms.
- SnowPro Core or SnowPro Advanced certification.
- Experience in financial services, banking, or other regulated enterprise environments.
Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day Snowflake administration, including users, roles, permissions, virtual warehouses, and resource monitoring.
- Analyze and optimize SQL queries, warehouse utilization, concurrency, and compute costs.
- Implement RBAC, least-privilege access, service accounts, and authentication integrations.
- Establish standards for warehouse sizing, auto-suspend, auto-resume, resource monitors, and workload management.
- Monitor platform health, troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.
- Manage Snowflake databases, schemas, tables, and views.
- Support data integration between Snowflake and AWS services, including S3 and IAM.
- Automate platform administration and operational tasks using SQL, Python, scripting, and APIs.
- Develop monitoring dashboards, operational documentation, incident response procedures, and cost reports.
- Implement security controls, data protection policies, and access reviews.
- Collaborate with engineering and architecture teams on platform improvements and enterprise data initiatives.
- Maintain platform reliability, operational efficiency, security, and compliance with enterprise standards.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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