Snowflake Admin

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

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance

This is for Snowflake Admin.

Should be very good in Snowflake Platform Administration. Should have exposure to AWS Admin activities.

Markham, ON (Mon, Wed, Friday)

Update from Client – Need only Admin profile, No Developer or Developer/Admin will work.

Required Experience and Skills:

• 7 or more years of hands-on experience with Snowflake administration, platform engineering, or cloud data platform operations.
• Strong understanding of Snowflake architecture, including accounts, organizations, databases, schemas, warehouses, stages, tasks, streams, shares, integrations, and account usage views.
• Strong experience with Snowflake RBAC, role hierarchy design, access management, security administration, and least-privilege access patterns.
• Experience administering production Snowflake environments in an enterprise or regulated environment.
• Experience with Snowflake warehouse management, workload monitoring, query troubleshooting, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
• Experience with Snowflake security features such as network policies, authentication policies, masking policies, row access policies, object tagging, auditing, and service account controls.
• Working knowledge of identity integration patterns such as SSO, SCIM, Entra ID groups, MFA, service accounts, and key-pair authentication.
• Experience with Terraform or infrastructure-as-code practices for platform configuration and automated deployments.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Bitbucket, GitHub, or similar platforms.
• Strong SQL skills and ability to analyze account usage, query history, access history, and operational metadata.
• Working knowledge of AWS data services such as S3, IAM, Glue, Lambda, KMS, Secrets Manager, Event Bridge, SNS, SQS, RDS, and Private Link.
• Strong understanding of change management, incident management, production support, operational readiness, and audit evidence requirements.