Snowflake Admin

Snowflake Admin

Technology->Snowflake administration 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. 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.