Snowflake Admin​/DevOps Engineer

Snowflake Administrator / Dev Ops Engineer

The Snowflake Administrator / Dev Ops Engineer is responsible for maintaining a secure, reliable, and cost-effective Snowflake platform on AWS. This role supports data and analytics teams by automating operations, managing cloud infrastructure, improving performance, and ensuring compliance and governance across the data platform.

• Design, build, and maintain secure Snowflake environments and data pipelines.
• Manage Snowflake accounts, databases, schemas, warehouses, and resource monitoring across development, test, and production environments.
• Implement and support data ingestion and orchestration using Snowpipe, Streams/Tasks, Kafka Connector, and AWS S3.
• Maintain security and access controls using RBAC, masking policies, row-level security, and SSO integrations (Okta/Entra ).
• Automate data governance processes including PII tagging and policy enforcement.
• Manage infrastructure and Snowflake configurations using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for dbt, ELT processes, schema migrations, and data deployments.
• Monitor platform health, query performance, data freshness, and system reliability using observability and alerting tools.
• Optimize Snowflake usage and cloud costs through warehouse tuning, query optimization, and usage reporting.
• Support integrations with AWS services, BI/reporting tools, and metadata/catalog platforms.
• Provide advanced troubleshooting, incident response, root cause analysis, and operational support.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering, Security, and Business teams to improve platform efficiency and reliability.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of experience in platform, systems, or Dev Ops engineering.
• 3+ years of hands‑on Snowflake administration experience in AWS cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of Snowflake security, RBAC, Streams/Tasks, Snowpipe, performance tuning, and resiliency strategies.
• Experience with AWS services such as EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, and VPC.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or Cloud Formation.
• Proficiency with CI/CD tools, Git workflows, SQL, and scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Go.
• Understanding of cloud networking, security, Linux/Windows administration, and IAM/KMS concepts.
• Strong documentation, troubleshooting, and communication skills.

• Experience with Kubernetes, EKS, and Istio.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Cloud Watch, Datadog, or Splunk.
• Experience integrating Snowflake with BI and data governance tools like Tableau, Qlik, Collibra, SAS, or Alteryx.
• Experience supporting highly available, cost‑optimized data platforms.
• Strong customer‑service mindset with a focus on automation and documentation.
• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage effective on the first of the month from your date of hire.
• 4% match on 401(k) and fully vested.
• Voluntary benefits such as Short & Long‑Term Disability, Critical Illness, Accident, AD&D, and Legal Shield.
• Paid subscription to the Calm app.
• Cashback available through thousands of vendors.