Job Title: Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer
Location: Remote
Duration: 6 Months + Extension
Bill Rate: $80/hour
Job Type: W-2 Contract
Client: To Be Discussed Later
Work Authorization:
Descriptions:
- As a Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer, you will design, secure, automate, operate, and optimize enterprise Snowflake environments across Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform) and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- You will partner with Data Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Information Security & Risk, and FinOps teams to deliver a secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-efficient Snowflake platform for enterprise analytics and data workloads.
Core Responsibilities
- Snowflake Platform Engineering: Design, configure, operate, and govern Snowflake environments across Google Cloud Platform and AWS, including accounts, databases, schemas, virtual warehouses, resource monitors, and cloud storage integrations.
- Security & Compliance: Implement RBAC, SSO, service authentication, encryption, masking policies, secrets management, audit controls, and private network connectivity in partnership with Information Security & Risk.
- Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD: Automate Snowflake provisioning and lifecycle management using Terraform, Git, and CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, Google Cloud Platform Cloud Build, Harness, or equivalent tooling.
- Performance & FinOps: Monitor and optimize query performance, warehouse sizing and scaling, resource utilization, clustering where appropriate, credit consumption, and storage costs.
- Reliability & Operations: Implement monitoring, alerting, operational runbooks, incident management, capacity management, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery practices for production Snowflake environments.
- Platform Standards & Enablement: Develop reusable Terraform modules, automation, security guardrails, deployment standards, documentation, and self-service capabilities for data engineering and analytics teams.
Equal opportunity Employer : We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.
