snowflake admin

Job Description Snowflake Administrator

Role: Snowflake Administrator / Senior Snowflake Administrator

Job Summary:
We are looking for an experienced Snowflake Administrator with strong expertise in enterprise Snowflake platform administration, security, performance optimization, automation, and integration with modern data platforms such as Databricks. The candidate will be responsible for managing Snowflake environments, implementing security and governance standards, optimizing platform performance and cost, and supporting data engineering and analytics workloads.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and manage Snowflake databases, schemas, warehouses, roles, users, integrations, and accounts.
• Implement and maintain RBAC, security roles, access controls, masking policies, and data-sharing standards.
• Manage Snowflake security, authentication, authorization, and governance requirements.
• Perform query performance tuning, warehouse optimization, clustering, and micro-partitioning.
• Monitor Snowflake workloads, resource utilization, storage, and credit consumption.
• Identify and implement Snowflake cost optimization / FinOps strategies.
• Automate Snowflake provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and operational activities using SQL, Snowflake APIs, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Troubleshoot Snowflake platform, connectivity, performance, and integration issues.
• Manage Snowflake integrations with Databricks for ETL/ELT and ML workloads.
• Support external tables, Iceberg tables, hybrid storage, and interoperability between Snowflake and Databricks.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, incident handling, and operational best practices.
• Support backup, recovery, replication, and business continuity requirements.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering, DevOps, Security, Cloud, and Application teams.
• Maintain platform documentation, standards, and operational procedures.
• Support Snowflake upgrades, migrations, enhancements, and new environment provisioning.

Mandatory Skills

• Snowflake Administration
• Snowflake Database / Schema / Warehouse Administration
• RBAC & Security
• Masking Policies & Data Sharing
• Performance Tuning & Query Optimization
• Clustering & Micro-partitioning
• SQL
• Python / Shell Scripting
• Terraform
• CI/CD
• Snowflake monitoring and cost optimization

Good to Have Skills

• Databricks
• Snowflake–Databricks integration
• ETL / ELT
• Iceberg
• External Tables
• Hybrid Storage
• Snowflake APIs
• Data Governance
• Cloud platforms – AWS / Azure / GCP