Specialist Administrator - Snowflake
- Markham, ON, Canada
Full-time
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Position Name – Specialist Administrator - Snowflake
Type of hiring – Fulltime
Location – Markham, ON - Hybrid (3 Days Onsite (Mon/ Tues/ Wed)
Job Description:
- 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.
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Responsibilities
Administer and engineer enterprise Snowflake environments, including platform configuration, access controls, security features, and identity integrations. Monitor and troubleshoot workloads, tune performance, optimize costs, and automate platform deployments using Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code practices.
Requirements
Requires at least seven years of hands-on experience in Snowflake administration, platform engineering, or cloud data platform operations, with experience supporting production environments in an enterprise or regulated setting. Candidates should have strong knowledge of Snowflake architecture, RBAC and security, workload and cost management, identity integration patterns, and Terraform or 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
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Categories
- Technology
- Data & Analytics
- Software
- Security & Safety
- Administrative
Keywords
- Snowflake
- Snowflake Administration
- Platform Engineering
- Snowflake Architecture
- Accounts
- Organizations
- Databases
- Schemas
- Virtual Warehouses
- Stages
- Tasks
- Streams
- Shares
- Integrations
- Account Usage Views
- Role-Based Access Control
- Role Hierarchy
- Least Privilege
- Warehouse Management
- Workload Monitoring
- Query Troubleshooting
- Performance Tuning
- Cost Optimization
- Network Policies
- Authentication Policies
- Masking Policies
- Row Access Policies
- Object Tagging
- Auditing