Snowflake Administration

About the job

Join a team where data platforms are treated as mission-critical products and reliability is a shared responsibility. In this role, you will help operate and optimize a Snowflake environment that powers analytics and business decision-making across teams. You’ll work closely with data engineers, analysts, and platform stakeholders to keep workloads running smoothly, ensure secure access, and maintain strong performance as usage grows. If you enjoy solving operational challenges, improving system efficiency, and building dependable processes around monitoring, governance, and cost control, this is a great opportunity to make a visible impact. You’ll contribute to a collaborative culture that values ownership, continuous improvement, and clear communication—while strengthening your expertise in modern cloud data warehousing and administration.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and support Snowflake environments, including warehouses, databases, schemas, roles, and resource monitors. • Manage user access and security using RBAC, ensuring least-privilege access and consistent governance practices. • Monitor platform health, performance, and query behavior; identify bottlenecks and recommend tuning actions. • Perform routine operational tasks such as usage tracking, cost monitoring, and warehouse sizing/auto-suspend optimization. • Support data onboarding activities, including object setup, permissions, and coordination with engineering/analytics teams. • Troubleshoot incidents related to access, performance, and workload failures; provide timely resolution and clear updates. • Maintain documentation for administration procedures, runbooks, and standard operating processes. • Assist with implementing and maintaining best practices for environment hygiene, naming standards, and change management.

Minimum Qualifications

• BTECH, MTECH, MCA, or MSC. • 2–3 years of hands-on experience in Snowflake administration and Snowflake platform operations. • Working knowledge of Snowflake security concepts (users, roles, grants) and administrative controls. • Ability to monitor and troubleshoot Snowflake performance and operational issues using platform tools and query history. • Strong communication skills to collaborate with data engineering and analytics stakeholders on operational needs.

Requirements

Technology-Snowflake administration, RBAC

Additional:

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Snowflake Cloud deployments and understanding of cloud-based operational considerations. • Exposure to workload management practices such as warehouse sizing strategies, resource monitoring, and cost optimization. • Familiarity with data platform governance practices, including access reviews, audit readiness, and policy-driven controls. • Experience creating operational dashboards/alerts and contributing to incident response and post-incident improvements. • Proven ability to improve reliability through documentation, automation of repeatable tasks, and process standardization.