Senior Engineer

About the Role:
We are looking for a handson Snowflake DBA to manage daytoday platform operations performance security posture and reliability for a large Snowflake environment (multiaccount petabyte scale hundreds of warehouses service and human users). This role includes L2 incident response and L3 problem management/engineering working closely with Platform Security Data Engineering and Monitoring teams.

Qualifications :

L2 Operations (Run)

*   Monitor platform health (warehouses query queues credits storage load/unload jobs) and respond to alerts within SLAs.
*   Triage resolve and document incidents including warehouse queueing failed tasks/replications user access issues timeouts locking/contention and connector failures.
*   Execute standard runbooks: warehouse scaling resume/suspend failover/replication checks credential/token rotation and service user maintenance.
*   Provision and maintain users roles warehouses databases schemas; manage future grants; perform regular storage hygiene and cleanup.
*   Conduct operational reviews such as daily checks weekly capacity and credit reports cost/usage anomaly investigation and storage growth tracking.

L3 Operations (Engineering & Problem Management)

*   Performance engineering including deepdive query profiling partitioning/pruning strategies micropartition optimization leveraging result cache and warehouse rightsizing.
*   Queue management and automation by analyzing FE warehouse patterns and implementing autoscaling autosuspend/resume policies and scheduled tasks to reduce load spikes.
*   Security and compliance activities including AD/SSO configuration token/PAT implementations network and authentication policies SCIM provisioning key rotation RBAC reviews and segregationofduties controls.
*   Replication and disaster recovery setup including crossaccount and crossregion replication weekly validation documenting RTO/RPO and performing DR drills.
*   Integration management including Security Storage and SCIM integrations coordination with monitoring platforms such as Datadog and evaluation of tools like Trust Center WIZ Cyera and Coralogix.
*   SRE practices such as maintaining runbooks completing postincident reviews managing problem records defining SLIs/SLOs (availability queue wait times P95 latency failed jobs) and driving remediation.
*   Environment management including POC setups sandbox environments new account creation within the Org hierarchy baseline hardening and implementing cost and resource governance.
*   Automation and IaC including scripts and templates (Terraform/Tofu Snowflake CLI/SnowSQL Python) for provisioning grants management and monitoring automation.

Additional Information :

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

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Employment Type :

Full-time