Snowflake Administrator
- Markham, ON, Canada
Full-time
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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.
- Working knowledge of AWS data services such as S3, IAM, Glue, Lambda, KMS, Secrets Manager, Event Bridge, SNS, SQS, RDS, and Private Link.
- 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.
- 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 configurations. Monitor workloads, troubleshoot and tune queries, optimize costs, support production operations, and maintain change, incident, and audit processes.
Requirements
Requires at least seven years of hands-on experience in Snowflake administration, platform engineering, or cloud data platform operations, with strong SQL, Snowflake security, and AWS knowledge. Candidates should also have experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code practices, CI/CD, production support, and operational controls in enterprise or regulated environments.
Skills
- Snowflake Administration
- Snowflake Architecture
- Role-Based Access Control
- Access Management
- AWS Data Services
- Warehouse Management
- Query Troubleshooting
- Performance Tuning
- Cost Optimization
- Snowflake Security
- Identity Integration
- Terraform
- Infrastructure as Code
- CI/CD
- SQL
- Incident Management
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Categories
- Technology
- Data & Analytics
- Software
- Security & Safety
Keywords
- Snowflake
- Snowflake Administration
- Platform Engineering
- Cloud Data Platforms
- Snowflake Architecture
- Snowflake RBAC
- Role Hierarchy
- AWS
- Amazon S3
- AWS IAM
- AWS Glue
- AWS Lambda
- AWS KMS
- AWS Secrets Manager
- Amazon EventBridge
- Amazon SNS
- Amazon SQS
- Amazon RDS
- AWS PrivateLink
- Warehouse Management
- Workload Monitoring
- Query History
- Access History
- Performance Tuning
- Cost Optimization
- Network Policies
- Masking Policies
- Row Access Policies
- Terraform
- CI/CD