Snowflake Administrator

Description

GSPANN is hiring a Snowflake Administrator to run and secure enterprise cloud data platforms, focusing on strong access controls, compliance, reliable performance, and controlled costs.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain Snowflake environments across development, test, and production with optimized configuration and cost controls.
• Manage connections to enterprise data sources using Snowpipe, external stages, and Extract, Transform, Load / Extract, Load, Transform (ETL/ELT) tools.
• Ensure least-privilege access by implementing RBAC and managing SSO and OAuth integrations.
• Implement column- and row-level security, dynamic masking, encryption, and audit logging, and enforce SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance.
• Optimize query performance and warehouse utilization by monitoring workloads and tuning caching, clustering, and materialized views.
• Drive cost governance across Snowflake warehouses and workloads.
• Manage platform standards, naming conventions, data retention policies, and failover and DR procedures.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for the Snowflake platform.

Skills and Experience

• Hold a SnowPro Certification (Core or Advanced), which is an advantage.
• Bring strong hands-on experience administering Snowflake environments.
• Demonstrate expertise in Snowflake security, RBAC, and access management.
• Work with Snowpipe, external stages, and data ingestion frameworks.
• Apply knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Utilize ETL/ELT tools and data integration solutions.
• Demonstrate an understanding of data governance, compliance, and security frameworks.
• Apply strong SQL and performance tuning skills.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
• Work with Terraform, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar DevOps tools.
• Bring experience supporting large-scale enterprise data platforms.
• Apply knowledge of DR and business continuity planning.