Snowflake Administrator

Snowflake Administrator

What You’ll Do

Observability: Monitor Snowflake queries, virtual warehouses, tasks, data loads, and overall account health. Identify and resolve operational issues.

FinOps & Cost Optimization: Monitor credit consumption, storage, and warehouse costs. Optimize warehouse sizing, auto-suspend settings, and resource monitors.

User Management

Manage Snowflake users, roles, onboarding, offboarding, and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).

Privilege Access Management

Review grants, privileged roles, access policies, and audit logs to enforce the principle of least privilege.

Platform Maintenance

Maintain Snowflake account settings, integrations, and routine operational health checks.

Service Desk Management

Triage incidents and service requests, investigating query failures, access issues, and platform-related problems.

Enhancements & Automation

Improve Snowflake configurations, automate operational tasks, and streamline support processes.

Business Continuity & Recovery: Support backup and retention policies, Time Travel, Fail-safe, and data recovery procedures.

Deployment & CI/CD

Support controlled releases of Snowflake objects, roles, scripts, and configurations through CI/CD pipelines.

Data Load Troubleshooting

Resolve issues related to Snowpipe, COPY commands, stages, file formats, connectivity, and scheduled data loads.

Transformation & Data Model Support: Perform first-line troubleshooting of failed tasks, SQL errors, and schema changes.

Functional Data Support

Investigate initial data availability and quality issues, coordinating with data owners for resolution.

Project Support

Assist engineering teams with Snowflake environments, integrations, and migrations.

Documentation

Maintain runbooks, access management procedures, operational guides, and knowledge base articles.

What We’re Looking For

5+ years of experience in data platform administration, operations, or production support, including hands-on Snowflake experience.

Strong knowledge of Snowflake administration, including RBAC, virtual warehouses, query history, performance tuning, and cost optimization.

Hands-on experience with Snowflake data loading, stages, tasks, Snowpipe, and cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.

Proficiency in SQL and familiarity with Python for scripting and automation.

Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Jira, ITSM processes, and monitoring or automation tools.

Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.