Senior Snowflake Admin: Cloud Data Platform Expert (AWS)

Zenith Infotek LLC.; Markham; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Job summary

Zenith Infotek LLC. is seeking a senior Snowflake Administrator for Markham, ON. The role focuses on Snowflake platform administration with exposure to AWS admin activities.

Candidates should have 7+ years of hands-on experience, deep Snowflake architecture knowledge, and strong SQL skills. The position requires working Mon, Wed, and Friday with enterprise-scale responsibilities and strict operational controls.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on Snowflake administration, platform engineering, or cloud data platform operations.
• Deep understanding of Snowflake architecture: accounts, databases, warehouses, stages, tasks, streams, shares, integrations, and account usage views.
• Experience with Snowflake RBAC, role hierarchy design, access management, and least-privilege patterns.
• Experience administering production Snowflake environments in enterprise or regulated settings.
• Snowflake workload management, query troubleshooting, performance tuning and cost optimization.
• Knowledge of Snowflake security features: network policies, authentication policies, masking policies, row access, auditing, service accounts.
• Familiarity with identity patterns like SSO, SCIM, Entra ID groups, MFA, and service accounts.
• IaC practices (Terraform or similar) for platform configuration and automated deployments.
• CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Bitbucket, GitHub or similar.
• Strong SQL skills to analyze usage, query history, access history, and operational metadata.
• Working knowledge of AWS data services (S3, IAM, Glue, Lambda, KMS, Secrets Manager, EventBridge, SNS, SQS, RDS).
• Understanding of change management, incident management, production support, and audit readiness.

Skills

Snowflake Admin

Platform Engineering

Cloud Data Ops

RBAC & IAM

Production Snowflake

Query Performance

Cost Optimisation

Security & Auditing

Identity & SSO

Terraform / IaC

CI/CD Tools

SQL Proficiency

AWS Data Services

Change & Incident Mgmt

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Bitbucket

GitHub

AWS S3

IAM

Glue

Lambda

KMS

Secrets Manager

Job description

Zenith Infotek LLC. is seeking a senior Snowflake Administrator for Markham, ON. The role focuses on Snowflake platform administration with exposure to AWS admin activities.

Candidates should have 7+ years of hands-on experience, deep Snowflake architecture knowledge, and strong SQL skills. The position requires working Mon, Wed, and Friday with enterprise-scale responsibilities and strict operational controls.