Specialist Administrator - Snowflake
- Markham, ON, Canada
Full-time
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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 secure enterprise Snowflake environments, including access controls, identity integrations, and platform configuration. Monitor workloads, troubleshoot and tune queries, manage warehouses, and optimize platform costs.
Requirements
Requires at least seven 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, RBAC, identity integrations, performance and cost optimization, and Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code practices.
Skills
- Snowflake Administration
- Snowflake Architecture
- Role-Based Access Control
- Access Management
- Security Administration
- Warehouse Management
- Workload Monitoring
- Query Troubleshooting
- Performance Tuning
- Cost Optimization
- Network Policies
- Masking Policies
- Row Access Policies
- Identity Integration
- Terraform
- Infrastructure as Code
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Categories
- Technology
- Data & Analytics
- Security & Safety
- Administrative
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
- Workload Monitoring
- Query Troubleshooting
- Performance Tuning
- Cost Optimization
- Network Policies
- Authentication Policies
- Masking Policies
- Row Access Policies
- Object Tagging
- Auditing
- Single Sign-On