Senior Snowflake administrator

Position Summary

Seeking an Intermediate to Advanced Snowflake Administrator to manage support and optimize our Snowflake environment with a strong focus on stability security performance and operational excellence. This role requires hands-on expertise in account-level administration RBAC and permission management incident response and platform governance while ensuring changes are implemented without service disruption and in alignment with uptime SLAs.

The ideal candidate is technically strong highly detail-oriented and an effective communicator who can work across technical and business teams. They will be expected to proactively maintain platform health quickly troubleshoot outages document administrative processes thoroughly and stay current with Snowflake releases and feature impacts.

Key Responsibilities

Snowflake Platform Administration

• Administer and support the Snowflake platform across environments including production and non-production.
  
• Perform account-level configuration and administrative changes with careful planning validation and change control to avoid service interruptions.
  
• Manage core Snowflake administrative functions such as:
  
• Users and roles
  
• Warehouses
  
• Resource monitors
  
• Network policies
  
• Integrations
  
• Account parameters
  
• Security and access controls
  
• Monitor platform usage availability and performance to ensure service reliability and adherence to uptime SLAs.
  
• Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency stability and governance within the Snowflake environment.
  

Access Management and Security

• Design implement and maintain role-based access control (RBAC) according to best practices and least-privilege principles.
  
• Manage permissions for databases schemas tables views stages warehouses and other Snowflake objects.
  
• Review and remediate access issues in a timely and controlled manner.
  
• Partner with security infrastructure and data teams to ensure administrative practices align with internal controls and compliance expectations.
  
• Conduct periodic audits of access roles grants and inherited permissions.
  

Incident Management and Operational Support

• Respond to production issues outages and service degradation events with urgency and precision.
  
• Quickly identify root cause scope of impact and resolution steps for Snowflake-related incidents.
  
• Coordinate recovery efforts while minimizing business disruption.
  
• Communicate incident status business impact estimated restoration timelines and post-resolution updates clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  
• Support on-call or after-hours administration as required for critical incidents or planned maintenance activities.
  

Change Management and Documentation

• Plan and execute platform changes with detailed risk assessment rollback planning testing and stakeholder communication.
  
• Maintain accurate and comprehensive documentation for:
  
• Administrative procedures
  
• Environment configurations
  
• Role hierarchies and permission models
  
• Incident response steps
  
• Operational runbooks
  
• Change records
  
• Ensure all work reflects strong attention to detail and disciplined operational practices.
  

Release and Feature Readiness

• Stay current on Snowflake releases new features deprecations and administrative impacts.
  
• Evaluate upcoming Snowflake capabilities for operational readiness configuration needs support requirements and risks.
  
• Recommend and implement administrative best practices based on platform evolution.
  
• Partner with engineering architecture and governance teams to assess release impacts before adoption.
  

Collaboration and Communication

• Work effectively with data engineering analytics application teams security infrastructure and business stakeholders.
  
• Translate technical issues and administrative decisions into clear business-friendly communication.
  
• Provide guidance on platform administration standards access models and operational best practices.
  
• Support audits governance reviews and cross-functional initiatives involving Snowflake.
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering or related field or equivalent practical experience.
  
• Several years of experience administering Snowflake in a large-scale production enterprise environment.
  
• Strong experience with Snowflake account administration including security user management warehouse management and platform configuration.
  
• Demonstrated experience managing RBAC permissions and access governance at scale.
  
• Strong understanding of Snowflake architecture and administrative best practices.
  
• Experience supporting highly available data platforms with uptime and SLA expectations.
  
• Proven ability to troubleshoot platform incidents determine root cause and drive timely resolution.
  
• Experience with change management processes that minimize risk and avoid service interruption.
  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  
• Strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail and documentation discipline.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with infrastructure cloud platforms and enterprise data ecosystems supporting Snowflake.
  
• Familiarity with scripting or automation using SQL Python Shell or similar tools.
  
• Experience integrating Snowflake administration with monitoring alerting and ticketing processes.
  
• Understanding of data security audit controls and compliance considerations in cloud data platforms.
  
• Snowflake certifications or other relevant cloud/data platform certifications.
  
• Experience supporting regulated or mission-critical business environments.
  

Key Skills

• Snowflake administration
  
• Account-level configuration management
  
• RBAC and access governance
  
• Security administration
  
• Incident response and root cause analysis
  
• Change management
  
• Platform monitoring and uptime support
  
• Documentation and operational runbooks
  
• Cross-functional communication
  
• Risk assessment and mitigation
  
• Attention to detail
  
• Release review and feature readiness
  

Success Profile

A successful candidate in this role will:

• Make administrative changes safely and confidently without disrupting service.
  
• Maintain strong uptime and operational reliability in line with SLA expectations.
  
• Resolve incidents quickly and communicate clearly throughout the process.
  
• Build and maintain a clean scalable and secure RBAC model.
  
• Produce high-quality documentation and carefully planned change records.
  
• Stay ahead of Snowflake platform changes and ensure the environment remains well-supported and current.