Snowflake Administrator
Nsight
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Skills
- Data Engineering
- Google Cloud Platform
- Python
- RBAC
- SQL
- Snow Flake Schema
- Database Administration
- Data Warehouse
Summary
About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled Snowflake Administrator to support the administration, optimization, governance, and operational management of our Snowflake data platform. This role will be responsible for ensuring platform stability, security, cost efficiency, and performance while collaborating with engineering and data teams to support business-critical data operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer and support Snowflake environments across development, testing, and production
- Manage user access, service accounts, roles, and permissions using Snowflake RBAC best practices
- Configure, maintain, and optimize Snowflake warehouses for performance and cost efficiency
- Monitor platform health, query performance, and resource utilization
- Troubleshoot and resolve Snowflake performance, access, and operational issues
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
- Support CI/CD processes utilizing GitHub and GitHub Actions
- Implement cost-monitoring strategies and provide recommendations to optimize Snowflake consumption
- Partner with engineering and analytics teams to support data pipeline integration and operational needs
- Assist with data platform migrations, including Snowflake on Google Cloud Platform and BigQuery migration initiatives
- Maintain platform documentation, governance standards, and operational procedures
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in database administration, data platform engineering, or cloud data warehouse administration
- Strong hands-on experience administering Snowflake in production environments
- Deep understanding of:
- Snowflake RBAC
- User and service account provisioning
- Role and permission management
- Security and governance best practices
- Experience managing Snowflake warehouses, auto-suspend/resume configurations, multi-cluster warehouses, and resource monitors
- Advanced SQL skills with experience troubleshooting performance issues and optimizing workloads
- Experience utilizing Snowflake ACCOUNT_USAGE and INFORMATION_SCHEMA views
- Strong Terraform experience managing Snowflake resources as code
- Experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions
- Working knowledge of Linux/Unix environments and shell scripting
- Strong communication skills and ability to work independently in a remote environment
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform)
- Experience with BigQuery administration or migration projects
- Familiarity with Python and data engineering workflows
- Experience supporting dbt, Kafka, or similar data pipelines
- Knowledge of data lakehouse architectures
- Dice Id: 10197390
- Position Id: 9079012
- Posted 5 hours ago
Company Info
About Nsight
The SAP practice team is lead by Top Tier Consultants who have provided SAP Project leadership from Conceptualization to Implementation and managed implementation teams of mid-size to large-size consultants. We have invested in our methodology and reusable models, and templates related to SAP Architecture and SAP Design Services. Some of our practitioners have been speakers and subject matter experts at SAP user conferences while making close ties with SAP America.
Our SAP Practitioners have an average SAP exposure of 9 years and have diverse experience in a wide spectrum of industries and understand the markets in which our clients do business. Our consultants keep themselves up to date with current technologies and have the business and technical experience to help clients align their business and IT strategies. The Nsight team has a proven track record to deliver projects on time and within budget. Our consultants are well versed in different methodologies, processes and tools. We deliver a great quality of work and provide a positive experience to clients with a sense of trust and comfort. Our best talented consultants offer complete business and IT solutions converging with the SAP suite of applications.
Locations
California, Minnesota, Canada, & India
Career Website
www.nsight-inc.com/career.html
News
www.nsight-inc.com/news.html
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