Snowflake Admin
- Markham, ON, Canada
Full-time
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Original job description
Location: Markham, ON
Model: Hybrid (3 Days Onsite (Mon/ Tues/ Wed))
This is for Snowflake Admin.
Should be very good in Snowflake Platform Administration. Should have exposure to AWS Admin activities.
Required Experience and Skills:
- 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.
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Bitbucket, GitHub, or similar platforms.
- Strong SQL skills and ability to analyze account usage, query history, access history, and operational metadata.
- Working knowledge of AWS data services such as S3, IAM, Glue, Lambda, KMS, Secrets Manager, EventBridge, SNS, SQS, RDS, and PrivateLink.
- Strong understanding of change management, incident management, production support, operational readiness, and audit evidence requirements.
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Responsibilities
Administer and secure enterprise Snowflake environments, including access controls, warehouses, workloads, integrations, and platform configuration. Monitor and troubleshoot production operations, optimize performance and costs, automate deployments, and support change management, incidents, and audit evidence requirements.
Requirements
Requires at least seven years of hands-on experience in Snowflake administration, platform engineering, or cloud data platform operations, with strong knowledge of Snowflake architecture, security, RBAC, SQL, and production support. Candidates should also have Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code experience, CI/CD familiarity, identity integration knowledge, and working knowledge of AWS data services and administration.
Skills
- Snowflake Administration
- Snowflake Architecture
- Role-Based Access Control
- Access Management
- Security Administration
- Warehouse Management
- Performance Tuning
- Cost Optimization
- Terraform
- Infrastructure as Code
- CI/CD
- SQL
- AWS Administration
- Identity Integration
- Production Support
- Incident Management
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Categories
- Technology
- Data & Analytics
- Software
- Security & Safety
Keywords
- Snowflake
- Snowflake Administration
- Platform Engineering
- AWS
- Snowflake Architecture
- RBAC
- Role Hierarchy
- Least-Privilege Access
- Warehouse Management
- Workload Monitoring
- Query Troubleshooting
- Performance Tuning
- Cost Optimization
- Network Policies
- Authentication Policies
- Masking Policies
- Row Access Policies
- Object Tagging
- SSO
- SCIM
- Entra ID
- MFA
- Terraform
- Infrastructure as Code
- CI/CD
- Azure DevOps
- Jenkins
- SQL
- S3