Database Administrator With Snowflake

Title: Snowflake DB Admin
Location: Hyderabad
Experience: 3+
Job Overview:

We are looking for an experienced Database Administrator (DBA) with strong expertise in Snowflake and cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP. The candidate will be responsible for database administration, performance optimization, security, monitoring, backup/recovery, and supporting data platforms in cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and manage Snowflake databases, warehouses, schemas, roles, users, and access controls.
• Perform database monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and optimization.
• Manage Snowflake security, including RBAC, roles, privileges, authentication, and data access policies.
• Monitor and optimize Snowflake compute and storage usage and control cloud costs.
• Configure and manage Snowflake integrations with AWS or GCP services.
• Manage database availability, backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery processes.
• Handle database upgrades, migrations, configuration changes, and production deployments.
• Monitor database health using cloud and database monitoring tools.
• Troubleshoot database performance, connectivity, and availability issues.
• Work with development and data engineering teams to optimize SQL queries and database workloads.
• Implement database standards, security best practices, and operational procedures.
• Automate routine DBA activities using Python, Shell scripting, or similar tools.
• Participate in incident management, root-cause analysis, and production support.
• Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and database architecture documentation.

Required Skills

• 4+ years of experience in Database Administration / Cloud Database Administration.
• Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake administration.
• Experience with AWS or GCP cloud environments.
• Strong SQL and database performance tuning skills.
• Experience with Snowflake RBAC, roles, users, warehouses, resource monitors, and security.
• Knowledge of database backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery.
• Experience with database monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Good understanding of cloud storage and compute concepts.
• Experience with scripting/automation using Python, Shell, or PowerShell.
• Strong problem-solving and production-support skills.