Job details :

About the Role :

- We are seeking an experienced Senior Snowflake Administrator with strong expertise in managing, securing, and optimizing enterprise Snowflake environments.

- The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in Snowflake administration, security, performance tuning, cost optimization, disaster recovery, and cloud integrations.

- This role requires collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure platform stability, governance, security, and high availability while supporting mission-critical data workloads.

Job Responsibilities :

- Administer and support Snowflake environments across Development, QA, UAT, and Production.

- Manage Snowflake accounts, databases, schemas, warehouses, resource monitors, storage integrations, and external stages.

- Configure and optimize virtual warehouses, auto-scaling, auto-suspend, and resource utilization.

- Perform environment cloning and data refresh activities using Zero-Copy Cloning.

- Design and implement Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), user provisioning, and access management.

- Configure Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and identity provider integrations such as Okta and Azure AD.

- Implement security controls including masking policies, row access policies, and network policies.

- Monitor Snowflake usage, query performance, warehouse utilization, and optimize credit consumption.

- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues while supporting incident management and on-call operations.

- Manage Time Travel, Fail-safe, replication, failover, and disaster recovery processes.

- Configure and support Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks, and cloud-based data ingestion frameworks.

- Collaborate with AWS, Azure, or GCP teams to implement secure cloud integrations.

- Automate administrative tasks using Python, Shell scripting, Terraform, or Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

- Develop operational documentation, governance standards, and technical runbooks.

Required Skills :

- 7+ years of overall IT experience with 4+ years of hands-on Snowflake Administration experience.

- Strong expertise in Snowflake Administration, Security, and RBAC implementation.

- Hands-on experience with warehouse management, query performance tuning, and cost optimization.

- Experience with Snowflake Time Travel, Zero-Copy Cloning, Replication, and Failover.

- Strong SQL skills for administration, troubleshooting, and performance analysis.

- Experience integrating Snowflake with AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud services.

- Experience with monitoring, alerting, production support, and incident management.

- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Skills :

- SnowPro Core Certification and/or SnowPro Advanced Administrator Certification.

- Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.

- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.

- Knowledge of Snowflake data sharing and marketplace features.