As a Snowflake Administrator Senior, you will manage and optimize Snowflake accounts, including user access, roles, and security configurations. You'll monitor and enhance performance, plan resource utilization, and implement automation for routine tasks. Collaboration with data engineers and analysts to integrate Snowflake with other systems is essential, as is enforcing security and compliance policies. You'll diagnose and resolve infrastructure and data pipeline issues, maintain detailed documentation, and provide training and support on best practices and new features.
Job Accountabilities:
- Manage and administer Snowflake accounts, including user access, roles, privileges, and security configurations.
- Monitor and optimize Snowflake performance, including query optimization, resource allocation, and system configurations.
- Plan and manage Snowflake resources and capacities to ensure efficient utilization and scalability.
- Implement automation for routine tasks, such as new schema creations, role access provisioning, Snowflake account level object creation activities using Snowflake's features and third-party tools.
- Collaborate with data engineers, architects, and analysts to integrate Snowflake with other data systems and applications effectively.
- Implement and enforce security policies, data encryption, and compliance requirements within Snowflake.
- Diagnose and resolve issues related to Snowflake infrastructure, data pipelines, and integration points.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation of Snowflake configurations, processes, and procedures.
- Provide training and support to users and stakeholders on Snowflake best practices, usage guidelines, and new features.
- Assist in development and execution of disaster recovery plans to ensure data protection and business continuity.
- Plan, monitor, and optimize Snowflake resource usage and costs to ensure efficient and scalable operations.
- New feature enablement working with vendor and IT security.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Education:
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
Experience:
- 5-6 Information Technology experience.
- 3-5 years administering and managing Snowflake data platform.
- 0-2 year’s experience DevOps or automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Powershell, Python).
Nice to have:
- Deep understanding of Snowflake architecture, capabilities, and best practices.
- Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their services relevant to Snowflake (e.g, S3, Blob Storage, BigQuery).
About Brooksource & Eight Eleven Group:
Eight Eleven Group provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, citizenship, disability, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance