Snowflake Admin

Step into a role where your Snowflake expertise directly powers reliable, secure, and high-performing data platforms. As a Snowflake Admin, you’ll be the trusted owner of day-to-day administration, governance, and operational excellence—ensuring teams can confidently build, query, and scale analytics workloads. You’ll collaborate closely with data engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to keep environments stable, costs optimized, and access tightly controlled. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys combining hands-on platform administration with leadership-level ownership, proactive monitoring, and continuous improvement. If you’re motivated by solving complex operational challenges, enabling self-service analytics, and building a culture of reliability and accountability, you’ll feel right at home here.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Administer Snowflake environments including account configuration, warehouses, databases, schemas, roles, and users. • Implement and manage role-based access control (RBAC), security policies, and governance standards. • Monitor platform health, query performance, and warehouse utilization; troubleshoot incidents and drive root-cause resolution. • Manage resource provisioning, scaling strategies, and cost optimization using usage metrics and best practices. • Configure and maintain data sharing, replication, and environment promotions aligned to operational needs. • Establish operational runbooks, alerting, and support processes to meet reliability and availability expectations. • Partner with engineering teams to review workloads, improve performance, and enforce platform standards. • Drive platform hygiene activities such as auditing, access reviews, and lifecycle management of objects and users.

Minimum Qualifications

• 6–8 years of overall experience with strong hands-on experience in Snowflake administration. • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering/Computer Applications/Science (BTECH, MTECH, MCA, MSC). • Strong understanding of Snowflake security, RBAC, object privileges, and governance practices. • Experience with monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance tuning in Snowflake environments. • Proven ability to manage operational tasks, incident handling, and stakeholder communication effectively.

Requirements

Technology->Snowflake administration

Additional:

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading administration practices across multiple environments (dev/test/prod) with clear operational controls. • Strong knowledge of cost management techniques such as warehouse sizing, auto-suspend/auto-resume, and usage analysis. • Experience implementing auditing, access certification, and compliance-aligned controls for data platforms. • Ability to create standards, documentation, and automation-friendly processes to improve admin efficiency. • Demonstrated collaboration with data engineering teams to align platform administration with delivery timelines and SLAs.