SnowFlake Admin
- Markham, ON, Canada
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Job Title: Snowflake Administrator
Location: Markham, ON (Hybrid)
Type: Contract
Job Description:
Job Details:
- 7 or more years of hands-on experience with Snowflake administration, platform engineering, or cloud data platform operations.
- Strong understanding of Snowflake architecture, including accounts, organizations, databases, schemas, warehouses, stages, tasks, streams, shares, integrations, and account usage views.
- Strong experience with Snowflake RBAC, role hierarchy design, access management, security administration, and least privilege access patterns.
- Experience administering production Snowflake environments in an enterprise or regulated environment.
- Experience with Snowflake warehouse management, workload monitoring, query troubleshooting, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
- Experience with Snowflake security features such as network policies, authentication policies, masking policies, row access policies, object tagging, auditing, and service account controls.
- Working knowledge of identity integration patterns such as SSO, SCIM, Entra ID groups, MFA, service accounts, and key pair authentication.
Experience with Terraform or infrastructure as code practices for platform configuration and automated deployments.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees
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Responsibilities
Administer and secure enterprise Snowflake environments, including access controls, identity integrations, and platform configuration. Monitor and troubleshoot workloads, tune performance, and optimize warehouse usage and costs.
Requirements
Requires at least 7 years of hands-on experience in Snowflake administration, platform engineering, or cloud data platform operations, including production environments. Candidates should have strong knowledge of Snowflake security and RBAC, identity integration patterns, workload and cost management, and Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code practices.
Skills
- Snowflake Administration
- Snowflake Architecture
- Platform Engineering
- Role-Based Access Control
- Access Management
- Security Administration
- Warehouse Management
- Workload Monitoring
- Query Troubleshooting
- Performance Tuning
- Cost Optimization
- Identity Integration
- Terraform
- Infrastructure as Code
- Automated Deployments
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Categories
- Technology
- Data & Analytics
- Software
- Security & Safety
Keywords
- Snowflake
- Snowflake Administration
- Platform Engineering
- Snowflake Architecture
- Accounts
- Organizations
- Databases
- Schemas
- Virtual Warehouses
- Stages
- Tasks
- Streams
- Data Sharing
- Integrations
- Account Usage Views
- Role-Based Access Control
- Role Hierarchy
- Least Privilege
- Network Policies
- Authentication Policies
- Masking Policies
- Row Access Policies
- Object Tagging
- Auditing
- Single Sign-On
- SCIM
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Multi-Factor Authentication
- Key Pair Authentication