Snowflake Admin
- Toronto, ON, Canada
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Job Title - Snowflake Admin
Markham, ON (Mon, Wed, Friday)
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, Event Bridge, SNS, SQS, RDS, and Private Link.
- 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, integrations, and platform configuration. Monitor workloads, troubleshoot and tune queries, optimize costs, and support production operations, deployments, incidents, and audit requirements.
Requirements
Requires at least seven years of hands-on experience in Snowflake administration, platform engineering, or cloud data platform operations, with strong Snowflake, security, and SQL expertise. Candidates should also have experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code practices, CI/CD, identity integrations, AWS data services, and enterprise production operations.
Skills
- Snowflake Administration
- Snowflake Architecture
- Role-Based Access Control
- Security Administration
- Warehouse Management
- Performance Tuning
- Cost Optimization
- Terraform
- Infrastructure as Code
- CI/CD
- SQL
- AWS
- Identity Integration
- Production Support
- Incident Management
- Change Management
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Categories
- Technology
- Data & Analytics
- Software
- Security & Safety
Keywords
- Snowflake
- Snowflake Administration
- Platform Engineering
- Cloud Data Platforms
- Snowflake Architecture
- Role-Based Access Control
- Least-Privilege Access
- Warehouses
- Streams
- Tasks
- Data Sharing
- Network Policies
- Masking Policies
- Row Access Policies
- Single Sign-On
- SCIM
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Multi-Factor Authentication
- Key-Pair Authentication
- Terraform
- Infrastructure as Code
- CI/CD
- Azure DevOps
- Jenkins
- Bitbucket
- GitHub
- SQL
- AWS
- Amazon S3
- AWS IAM