Snowflake Platform Engineer

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• THIS IS A W2 CONTRACT (NOT C2C) 12+ MO OPPORTUNITY
• CANDIDATES MUST BE LOCAL AT THE TIME OF APPLICATION TO BE CONSIDERED
• AT THIS TIME SPONSORSHIP IS NOT AVAILABLE
• NO C2C OR W2 REFERRAL BASED SOLICITATIONS ACCEPTED

MAX RATE UP TO $110hr based on experience

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer to provide technical leadership and hands-on administration for an enterprise Snowflake environment. This role is responsible for ensuring the platform remains secure, reliable, scalable, and cost-effective while supporting critical business workloads.

The ideal candidate will possess deep Snowflake administration expertise, advanced SQL skills, strong performance tuning capabilities, and experience troubleshooting complex production environments. This individual will work closely with Data Engineering, Architecture, Security, and business stakeholders to drive platform excellence and enable enterprise data initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Snowflake Platform Administration

• Own day-to-day administration of the Snowflake platform, including:
• User and role management
• Access controls and security administration
• Warehouse configuration and optimization
• Resource monitoring and operational support

Performance & Cost Optimization

• Analyze and optimize:
• Query performance
• Warehouse utilization
• Concurrency and workload management
• Compute consumption and overall platform costs
• Leverage Snowflake monitoring tools and account usage reporting to identify optimization opportunities.

Security & Access Management

• Implement and maintain:
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
• Least-privilege security models
• Service accounts
• Authentication integrations
• Data protection controls

Platform Standards & Governance

• Establish standards and best practices for:
• Warehouse sizing
• Auto-suspend and auto-resume settings
• Resource monitors
• Cost management strategies
• Workload isolation

Reliability & Operational Excellence

• Monitor platform health and performance.
• Investigate and resolve production incidents.
• Conduct root cause analysis and implement preventative solutions.
• Improve platform availability, reliability, and operational efficiency.

Database & Object Management

• Manage platform assets including:
• Databases
• Schemas
• Tables
• Views
• Retention configurations
• Maintain platform hygiene through cleanup and lifecycle management activities.

Integration & Automation

• Support Snowflake integrations with AWS services such as:
• S3
• IAM
• Enterprise data ingestion and processing tools
• Automate operational processes using SQL, Python, scripting, APIs, and related technologies.

Documentation & Collaboration

• Develop dashboards, operational procedures, technical documentation, and cost reporting.
• Partner with engineering and architecture teams on platform enhancements, upgrades, and enterprise data initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience administering and supporting Snowflake in a production enterprise environment.
• Deep understanding of Snowflake architecture, including:
• Virtual warehouses
• Micro-partitions
• Caching strategies
• Query execution
• Resource consumption
• Advanced SQL expertise.
• Proven experience diagnosing and resolving query performance issues.
• Strong experience implementing:
• RBAC
• Role hierarchies
• Grants and access policies
• Secure access patterns
• Experience with:
• Warehouse sizing
• Workload management
• Cost monitoring
• Compute optimization
• Demonstrated success troubleshooting production incidents and improving platform reliability.
• Strong knowledge of database administration, enterprise security, and data governance principles.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced enterprise environment.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience integrating Snowflake with AWS services including S3, IAM, Glue, and enterprise data pipelines.

• Python or shell scripting experience for automation.
• Experience with Terraform or Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
• Familiarity with:
• ACCOUNT_USAGE views
• ORGANIZATION_USAGE views
• Resource monitors
• Query history analysis
• Experience implementing:
• Masking policies
• Row access policies
• Network policies
• Authentication integrations
• Experience with:
• Multi-cluster warehouses
• Replication and failover strategies
• Business continuity planning
• SnowPro Core or Advanced Certification.
• Experience working within a highly regulated enterprise environment.