Snowflake Admin

We are seeking an experienced Snowflake Administrator to manage, maintain, and optimize the Snowflake Data Cloud environment. The ideal candidate will be responsible for platform administration, security, performance tuning, monitoring, and supporting data engineering and analytics teams.

We are seeking a skilled Snowflake Administrator responsible for managing, monitoring, securing, and optimizing Snowflake data platform environments. The role includes performance tuning, cost optimization, access control, and production support for enterprise data workloads.

Key Responsibilities:

Snowflake Administration

Manage Snowflake accounts, warehouses, databases, schemas, and roles
Configure and maintain virtual warehouses (compute layers)
Handle user access, RBAC, and security policies
Monitor system usage and ensure platform stability

Performance Tuning & Optimization:

Optimize Snowflake queries, warehouse sizing, and auto-scaling
Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks
Implement clustering, partitioning, and caching strategies
Monitor query performance using Query Profile and History

Cost Management

Track and optimize Snowflake credit usage
Implement cost-saving strategies:

Auto suspend/resume
Right-sizing warehouses
Query optimization

Generate usage reports and cost dashboards

Data Security & Governance:

Implement data security best practices

Role-based access control (RBAC)
Row-level and column-level security

Manage data encryption and masking policies
Ensure compliance with organizational security standards

Data Integration & Pipeline Support:

Support data loading using:

Snowpipe
Bulk loads (COPY INTO)
External stages (S3, Azure Blob)

Collaborate with ETL teams (Informatica, Airflow, dbt, etc.)
Troubleshoot data ingestion and transformation issues

Backup & Recovery:

Utilize Time Travel and Fail-safe features:

Perform data recovery and disaster recovery planning
Ensure data availability and integrity

Monitoring & Troubleshooting:

Monitor system health, workloads, and query activity
Troubleshoot:

Query failures
Data load issues
Performance degradation

Handle incident management, RCA, and SLA adherence

Primary skills: Snowflake admin

Education: Bachelor of Engineering

Preferred skills: Technology->Database Administration->Sybase Admin,Technology->Data on Cloud-Data Store->Snowflake,Domain->Healthcare->Administrative tools