Snowflake Platform Administrator

Markham, ON, Canada

Full-time

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Job type: Full-time
Apply by: May 11, 2027
Experience: Experience:** 8+ Years overall IT experience(must have)
Posting language: English
Posted: Nov 12, 2026

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# Snowflake Platform Administrator

Location:** Markham, ON
Work Mode:** Hybrid – 3 Days Onsite (Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday)
Employment:** Full-Time
Experience:** 8+ Years overall IT experience(must have)

### Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Snowflake platform professional to manage and support enterprise cloud data environments. The role will focus on platform administration, access and security management, environment reliability, performance monitoring, and automation of Snowflake infrastructure.

The candidate should have strong hands-on experience operating Snowflake in production and be comfortable working across security, identity, infrastructure automation, and platform optimization.

### Key Responsibilities

Administer and maintain enterprise Snowflake environments across databases, schemas, warehouses, stages, tasks, streams, shares, and integrations.
Manage user access, roles, permissions, and security configurations in accordance with least-privilege principles.
Monitor Snowflake workloads and investigate performance, query, warehouse, and resource-related issues.
Identify opportunities for warehouse optimization and cloud cost reduction.
Support production environments and ensure platform configurations meet enterprise and regulatory requirements.
Manage platform configuration and deployment processes using infrastructure-as-code practices.
Work with engineering and security teams on authentication, identity integration, access controls, and platform governance.
Maintain appropriate monitoring, auditing, and operational controls across the Snowflake environment.

### Snowflake Platform Expertise

Strong hands-on experience with **Snowflake administration, platform engineering, or cloud data platform operations**.
Good understanding of Snowflake's core architecture, including:
Accounts and organizations
Databases and schemas
Virtual warehouses
Stages
Tasks and streams
Shares
Integrations
Account usage and monitoring views
Strong knowledge of **Snowflake RBAC**, role hierarchy, access provisioning, and least-privilege security models.
Experience supporting production Snowflake environments within enterprise or regulated organizations.

### Security & Identity Management

Practical experience with Snowflake security capabilities such as:
Network policies
Authentication policies
Masking policies
Row access policies
Object tagging
Auditing
Service account controls
Understanding of enterprise identity and authentication mechanisms including:
SSO
SCIM
Microsoft Entra ID groups
MFA
Service accounts
Key-pair authentication

### Performance & Cost Management

Experience monitoring Snowflake workloads and warehouse utilization.
Ability to troubleshoot slow or inefficient queries.
Experience with performance tuning and workload optimization.
Understanding of warehouse sizing, utilization patterns, and cost-control practices.
Ability to investigate platform-level issues and recommend appropriate technical improvements.

### Automation & Infrastructure

Hands-on experience with **Terraform or similar Infrastructure-as-Code approaches**.
Ability to automate Snowflake configuration and platform deployments.
Understanding of version-controlled infrastructure and repeatable deployment practices.
Experience integrating platform administration with modern cloud engineering workflows.

### Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate should be a technically strong Snowflake administrator who has worked directly with production environments rather than only performing reporting or data-development activities.

Strong platform administration, security/RBAC, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and infrastructure automation experience will be important for this position.

Skills: integration patterns,snowflake administration,cloud data platform,security administration,role hierarchy design,platform engineering,snowflake rbac,snowflake security,iac,access management,production snowflake,snowflake architecture,terraform

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Responsibilities

Administer and secure enterprise Snowflake environments, managing platform objects, access controls, monitoring, and production reliability. Troubleshoot performance issues, optimize warehouse utilization and costs, and automate platform configuration and deployments using infrastructure-as-code practices.

Requirements

Requires at least 8 years of overall IT experience and hands-on experience administering production Snowflake environments. Candidates should have strong knowledge of Snowflake architecture, RBAC and security, identity and authentication, performance and cost optimization, and Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.

Skills

Snowflake Administration
Cloud Data Platforms
Security Administration
Role Hierarchy Design
Platform Engineering
Snowflake RBAC
Snowflake Security
Infrastructure as Code
Access Management
Snowflake Architecture
Terraform
Performance Optimization
Cost Management
Identity Integration
Workload Monitoring

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Keywords

Snowflake
Snowflake Administration
Cloud Data Platforms
Platform Engineering
Snowflake Architecture
Accounts and Organizations
Databases
Schemas
Virtual Warehouses
Stages
Tasks
Streams
Shares
Integrations
Snowflake RBAC
Role Hierarchy
Least-Privilege Security
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
Performance Tuning
Cost Optimization

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