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Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer

Veriday Inc.
Cincinnati, USA
Senior
Hybrid
Discovered 2 days ago
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Key Responsibilities

  • Own day-to-day Snowflake administration, including user and role management, warehouse configuration, resource monitoring, and operational support.
  • Analyze and optimize query performance, warehouse utilization, concurrency, and compute costs using Snowflake monitoring and account usage capabilities.
  • Implement and maintain RBAC, least-privilege access, service accounts, authentication integrations, and data protection controls.
  • Establish platform standards for warehouse sizing, auto-suspend/resume, resource monitors, workload isolation, and cost management.
  • Monitor platform health, investigate incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventative measures.
  • Manage database objects and platform hygiene, including schemas, tables, views, retention settings, and cleanup of obsolete resources.
  • Support data integration and connectivity with AWS services (S3, IAM) and related ingestion and processing tools.
  • Automate administrative and operational tasks using SQL, Python, scripting, and APIs.
  • Develop operational dashboards and documentation for monitoring, incident response, access reviews, and cost reporting.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams on platform architecture, upgrades, new capabilities, and enterprise data initiatives.

Required Skills

  • Extensive hands-on experience administering and supporting Snowflake in a production enterprise environment.
  • Strong knowledge of Snowflake architecture, including virtual warehouses, micro-partitions, caching, and query execution.
  • Advanced SQL skills with proven experience diagnosing and resolving query performance issues.
  • Practical experience implementing Snowflake RBAC, role hierarchies, grants, access policies, and secure access patterns.
  • Experience with warehouse sizing, workload management, cost monitoring, and compute optimization.
  • Experience troubleshooting production incidents and improving platform reliability.
  • Solid understanding of database administration, data governance, and enterprise security practices.
  • Ability to work independently, communicate effectively, and produce clear technical documentation.
  • Experience integrating Snowflake with AWS S3, IAM, Glue, and enterprise data pipelines
  • Python or shell scripting for automation; Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools
  • Snowflake security features: masking policies, row access policies, network policies, authentication integrations
  • Experience with multi-cluster warehouses, replication, failover, and business continuity
  • SnowPro Core or Advanced certification
  • Experience in financial services or another regulated enterprise environment

Qualifications

  • Extensive hands-on experience administering and supporting Snowflake in a production enterprise environment.
  • Strong knowledge of Snowflake architecture, including virtual warehouses, micro-partitions, caching, and query execution.
  • Advanced SQL skills with proven experience diagnosing and resolving query performance issues.
  • Practical experience implementing Snowflake RBAC, role hierarchies, grants, access policies, and secure access patterns.
  • Experience with warehouse sizing, workload management, cost monitoring, and compute optimization.
  • Experience troubleshooting production incidents and improving platform reliability.
  • Solid understanding of database administration, data governance, and enterprise security practices.
  • Ability to work independently, communicate effectively, and produce clear technical documentation.
  • Experience integrating Snowflake with AWS S3, IAM, Glue, and enterprise data pipelines
  • Python or shell scripting for automation; Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools
  • Snowflake security features: masking policies, row access policies, network policies, authentication integrations
  • Experience with multi-cluster warehouses, replication, failover, and business continuity
  • SnowPro Core or Advanced certification
  • Experience in financial services or another regulated enterprise environment

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