Snowflake Administrator

Infosys; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,600,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Infosys is seeking a Snowflake Admin in Bengaluru to manage Snowflake environments, security, and platform operations. The role emphasizes warehouse management, RBAC governance, and production troubleshooting, with strong focus on automation and cross-functional collaboration.

The candidate should have 3–5 years of Snowflake experience, solid documentation skills, and a proven ability to optimize performance and cost in cloud data environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 3–5 years total experience with ≥3 years in Snowflake Admin and platform operations.
• Strong understanding of Snowflake security concepts (RBAC), warehouse management, and admin.
• Experience monitoring and troubleshooting Snowflake performance in production.
• Ability to create clear operational documentation and follow structured processes.

Responsibilities

• Administer Snowflake environments including users, roles, RBAC, warehouses, databases, schemas, and resource monitors.
• Monitor platform health, query performance, and warehouse utilization; identify bottlenecks and tune actions.
• Manage access controls, data security policies, and auditing to ensure compliance.
• Implement and maintain incident management, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis processes.
• Support onboarding of new data workloads by configuring compute, storage, and permissions.
• Optimize cost and performance via warehouse sizing, auto-suspend/auto-resume, and usage reporting.
• Maintain documentation for configurations, runbooks, and platform standards.
• Collaborate with engineering and analytics teams to ensure reliable data availability and smooth releases.

Skills

Snowflake Administration

RBAC & security

Production troubleshooting

Documentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Performance tuning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Computer Science

Tools

Splunk

Datadog

CloudWatch

Job description

Snowflake Admin • Primary skills:Snowflake Admin-Technology->Data on Cloud-DataStore->Snowflake,Technology->Infrastructure-Server Administration->Linux Admin Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• 3–5 years of overall experience with at least 3 years in Snowflake Administration and platform operations.
• Strong understanding of Snowflake security concepts (RBAC), warehouse management, and account-level administration.
• Experience monitoring and troubleshooting Snowflake performance and operational issues in production environments.
• Ability to create clear operational documentation and follow structured support processes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with Snowflake Cloud Data Platform features such as resource monitors, data sharing, and usage analytics.
• Experience implementing governance practices including auditing, access reviews, and least-privilege security models.
• Exposure to automation for administrative tasks (e.g., scripting, scheduling, and repeatable operational workflows).
• Familiarity with performance tuning patterns such as clustering considerations, query optimization, and workload isolation strategies.
• Proven ability to partner with cross-functional teams to improve reliability, reduce incidents, and enhance platform standards.

Good to have skills:

• SQL
• Python scripting
• AWS/Azure/GCP fundamentals
• CI/CD basics
• Monitoring & alerting tools (e.g., Splunk/Datadog/CloudWatch).

Key Responsibilities:

• Administer Snowflake environments including users, roles, RBAC, warehouses, databases, schemas, and resource monitors.
• Monitor platform health, query performance, and warehouse utilization; identify bottlenecks and recommend tuning actions.
• Manage access controls, data security policies, and auditing to ensure compliance with organizational standards.
• Implement and maintain operational processes for incident management, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
• Support onboarding of new data workloads and teams by configuring compute, storage, and permissions appropriately.
• Optimize cost and performance through warehouse sizing, auto-suspend/auto-resume strategies, and usage reporting.
• Maintain documentation for configurations, runbooks, operational procedures, and platform standards.
• Collaborate with engineering and analytics teams to ensure reliable data availability and smooth release/change management.