Snowflake Admin

Join a team that turns data into dependable, high-performing platforms people love to use. In this role, you’ll help operate and optimize a modern cloud data environment on Snowflake, ensuring it stays secure, scalable, and cost-efficient as business needs grow. You’ll collaborate closely with data engineers, analysts, and platform stakeholders to keep workloads running smoothly, resolve issues quickly, and continuously improve reliability. If you enjoy combining hands-on administration with thoughtful governance, performance tuning, and proactive monitoring, this is a great opportunity to make a visible impact. You’ll contribute to best practices, automation, and operational excellence—helping teams access trusted data faster while maintaining strong controls and a collaborative, learning-focused culture.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

Administer Snowflake environments including users, roles, RBAC, warehouses, databases, schemas, and resource monitors.

Monitor platform health, query performance, and warehouse utilization; identify bottlenecks and recommend tuning actions.

Manage access controls, data security policies, and auditing to ensure compliance with organizational standards.

Implement and maintain operational processes for incident management, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.

Support onboarding of new data workloads and teams by configuring compute, storage, and permissions appropriately.

Optimize cost and performance through warehouse sizing, auto-suspend/auto-resume strategies, and usage reporting.

Maintain documentation for configurations, runbooks, operational procedures, and platform standards.

Collaborate with engineering and analytics teams to ensure reliable data availability and smooth release/change management.

Technical requirements

Primary skills:Snowflake Admin-Technology->Data on Cloud-DataStore->Snowflake,Technology->Infrastructure-Server Administration->Linux Admin

Additional responsibilities

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.

3–5 years of overall experience with at least 3 years in Snowflake Administration and platform operations.

Strong understanding of Snowflake security concepts (RBAC), warehouse management, and account-level administration.

Experience monitoring and troubleshooting Snowflake performance and operational issues in production environments.

Ability to create clear operational documentation and follow structured support processes.

Preferred Qualifications:

Hands-on experience with Snowflake Cloud Data Platform features such as resource monitors, data sharing, and usage analytics.

Experience implementing governance practices including auditing, access reviews, and least-privilege security models.

Exposure to automation for administrative tasks (e.g., scripting, scheduling, and repeatable operational workflows).

Familiarity with performance tuning patterns such as clustering considerations, query optimization, and workload isolation strategies.

Proven ability to partner with cross-functional teams to improve reliability, reduce incidents, and enhance platform standards.

Good to have skills:

SQL, Python scripting, AWS/Azure/GCP fundamentals, CI/CD basics, Monitoring & alerting tools (e.g., Splunk/Datadog/CloudWatch).

Education

MCA,MSc,MTech,Bachelor of Engineering,BTech