Snowflake Administrator

Empower

1d • $105,700 - $149,275 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Snowflake Platform Administrator will own the reliability, security, and cost efficiency of our Snowflake on AWS estate. You will design and automate the platform’s day-to-day operations, environments, CI/CD, observability, access, networking, and data movement so product and analytics teams can ship governed, performant data products with confidence. You will collaborate across Data Engineering, InfoSec, and Business/Analytics to keep the platform compliant, resilient, and fast.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• At least 5 years of experience in platform or systems engineering, including designing, building, and operating large-scale applications
• 3+ years of hands-on Snowflake administration operating in cloud environments (AWS preferred)
• Snowflake expertise across RBAC design, masking and row access policies, object tags, Streams/Tasks, Snowpipe/Kafka Connector, search optimization, materialized views, and replication/failover
• Expert understanding of AWS infrastructure components, including EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, and others
• Production experience managing Infrastructure as Code frameworks such as Terraform and CloudFormation
• Proficiency with CI/CD tooling (GitHub and/or Azure DevOps), Git-based workflows, SQL, and one scripting language (Python, Go, Bash, or shell) for automation
• Strong grasp of Internet and cloud fundamentals (DNS, TLS, routing, SSH, HTTP/S), Linux/Windows administration basics, and IAM/KMS
• Expert knowledge in one or more DevOps disciplines such as code, CI, CD, operations, infrastructure, etc.
• AWS, Kubernetes, or relevant certifications

Nice To Haves

• Production experience with Kubernetes clusters, with EKS and Istio service mesh experience preferred
• Experience with observability stacks (CloudWatch, Datadog, Splunk), including Snowflake log exports and ACCOUNT_USAGE views
• Experience with BI/admin and data ecosystem integrations, including Tableau/Qlik/BOBJ, SAS/Alteryx connectivity to Snowflake, and Collibra integration for metadata/tag propagation
• Experience building high-availability and cost-efficient data platforms, including incident management and on-call rotations
• Customer-service mindset with crisp written and verbal communication, including explaining technical issues to non-technical partners
• Bias for automation and documentation, with comfort managing multiple priorities with accuracy and urgency

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of robust and secure Snowflake platforms and pipelines, spanning a wide range of technologies and complexity
• Stand up and manage Snowflake accounts/environments (dev/test/prod), databases, schemas, virtual warehouses, and resource monitors; enable auto-suspend/auto-resume and multi-cluster where needed
• Implement and operate ingestion and orchestration patterns using Streams/Tasks, Snowpipe/Kafka Connector, and external stages (S3)
• Enforce security, compliance, and access governance, including RBAC role hierarchies, tag-based masking, row access policies, network policies, and session parameters (SSO/SCIM with Okta/Entra ID)
• Manage Snowflake objects and configurations as code (Terraform Snowflake provider and/or Snowflake CLI) and build Git-based promotion workflows with pre-merge checks (grant diffs, policy linting, contract tests)
• Build observability dashboards and alerts for utilization, query performance, task/pipe health, failures, and data freshness/volume anomalies; tune performance and drive SLOs for latency, concurrency, and reliability
• Implement cost optimization guardrails including warehouse rightsizing, auto-suspend targets, query tagging, and chargeback/showback with unit-economics KPIs and variance reviews
• Operate secure integrations with AWS (S3, IAM/KMS, PrivateLink/VPC endpoints), catalogs (Collibra), and BI tools (Tableau/Qlik/BOBJ)
• Provide Level-3 support, lead incident response and postmortems with clear RCAs and fixes, and maintain/validate resiliency strategies and runbooks (including game days)
• Work independently on assignments in a GitOps-driven environment, collaborating with development teams to automate processes and increase productivity

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
• Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans
• Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year
• Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year
• Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)
• Business Resource Groups (BRGs) – BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior