ProBridge - Junior Snowflake Database Administrator

Trellance Cooperative Holdings, Inc.; San Antonio (TX); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

ProBridge is seeking a junior Snowflake DBA to join our hybrid team in San Antonio, TX or Tysons, VA. The role focuses on administering Snowflake environments, ensuring performance, security, and cost efficiency while collaborating with data engineering, BI, and cloud teams.

You will support development, testing, and production, manage users and RBAC, monitor warehouses, tune queries, and assist with loading, cloning, and recovery tasks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, IS, Eng, Data/Analytics or related field.
• 2–3 years of database/cloud data platform or data engineering experience with Snowflake exposure.
• SnowPro Core certification preferred or willingness to obtain.
• Experience administering Snowflake Cortex AI and AI workloads is a plus.
• Experience in regulated industries is a plus.
• Familiarity with ITIL incident/change management or ServiceNow/Jira is beneficial.
• CI/CD, Git, IaC, or DevOps practices for data platforms desirable.

Responsibilities

• Support Snowflake dev/test/prod environments.
• Create/manage users, roles, warehouses, databases, schemas, and access.
• Implement RBAC and least-privilege security.
• Monitor warehouse usage, query performance, storage, concurrency, health.
• Assist with query tuning and sizing recommendations.
• Monitor credit consumption and cost optimization.
• Assist with loading, stages, file formats, Snowpipe, streams, tasks.
• Assist with cloning, Time Travel, Fail-safe, backups and refreshes.
• Troubleshoot failed jobs, connectivity, data-load errors, performance incidents.
• Integrate with ETL/ELT, BI tools; maintain docs.
• Participate in incident/change/release/problem-management.
• Collaborate with senior Snowflake admins/architects on upgrades.

Skills

Snowflake Platform

SQL

RBAC Security

Performance & Cost

Data Loading

Data Protection

ETL/BI integrations

Scripting

Monitoring

Troubleshooting

Stakeholder comms

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

dbt

Azure Data Factory

Power BI

Tableau

Snowflake Cortex AI

Job description

Preferred Locations: San Antonio, TX or Tysons, VA
Work Arrangement: Hybrid — 3 days in the office and 2 days remote per week

Established as a separate entity in 2025, ProBridgeis a wholly owned subsidiary of Trellance. It evolved from Trellance’s Talent Line of Solutions, leveraging deep industry experience to provide organizations with access to highly skilled technology and finance professionals. ProBridge delivers both expert resources and customized solutions to our clients, helping scale teams, optimizing operations, and meeting their business objectives.

Summary

The Junior Snowflake DBA will support the administration, performance, security, monitoring, and day-to-day operation of enterprise Snowflake environments. The role is suited for a database professional with 2-3 years of relevant experience who can work with data engineering, BI, analytics, security, and cloud teams to maintain a reliable, secure, and cost-efficient Snowflake platform.

Responsibilities

• Support administration of Snowflake development, test, and production environments.
• Create and maintain users, roles, warehouses, databases, schemas, and access privileges.
• Implement and support role-based access control (RBAC) and least-privilege security practices.
• Monitor warehouse utilization, query performance, storage, concurrency, and platform health.
• Assist with query tuning, performance troubleshooting, and warehouse sizing recommendations.
• Monitor Snowflake credit consumption and support cost-optimization and resource-monitoring activities.
• Support data loading, unloading, stages, file formats, Snowpipe, tasks, streams, and scheduled processes.
• Assist with cloning, Time Travel, Fail-safe concepts, backup/recovery procedures, and environment refreshes.
• Troubleshoot failed jobs, connectivity issues, access problems, data-loading errors, and performance incidents.
• Support integrations with ETL/ELT, BI, cloud storage, and data engineering platforms.
• Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, access records, configuration standards, and change history.
• Participate in incident, change, release, and problem-management processes.
• Work with senior Snowflake administrators and architects on upgrades, new capabilities, and platform improvements.

Required Qualifications

Skill Area

Expected Capability

Snowflake Platform

Hands-on knowledge of databases, schemas, tables, views, stages, virtual warehouses, resource monitors, and Snowflake administration.

SQL

Strong SQL skills, including joins, CTEs, window functions, query plans, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.

Security & Access

Understanding of Snowflake RBAC, users, roles, grants, object ownership, network/security concepts, and least-privilege access.

Performance & Cost

Experience monitoring query history, warehouse performance, credit consumption, caching, clustering concepts, and workload optimization.

Data Loading

Knowledge of COPY INTO, internal/external stages, file formats, Snowpipe, streams, tasks, and common ingestion patterns.

Data Protection

Working understanding of Time Travel, zero-copy cloning, Fail-safe, secure data sharing, and recovery concepts.

Exposure to AWS storage, networking, identity, and security concepts used with Snowflake.

Integration

Familiarity with ETL/ELT and BI tools such as dbt ,Azure Data Factory, Power BI, or Tableau.

Scripting & Automation

Basic Python, PowerShell, Bash, or Snowflake scripting experience for operational automation is preferred.

Monitoring

Ability to use Snowflake ACCOUNT_USAGE / INFORMATION_SCHEMA views and monitoring dashboards to identify operational issues.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data/Analytics, or a related discipline.
• 2-3 years of database, cloud data platform, or data engineering experience, with practical Snowflake exposure.
• SnowPro Core certification is preferred or willingness to obtain it.
• Hands-on experience administering Snowflake Cortex AI, including Cortex Search, Cortex Analyst, Cortex Agents, LLM functions, security/RBAC, monitoring, and cost/resource optimization.
• Support the deployment and operationalization of AI/GenAI workloads on Snowflake, including environment configuration, governance, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and integration with enterprise data pipelines.
• Experience working in regulated industries such as banking, credit unions, financial services, healthcare, or insurance is a plus.
• Familiarity with ITIL-style incident/change management and ticketing tools such as ServiceNow or Jira is beneficial.
• Exposure to CI/CD, Git, infrastructure-as-code, or DevOps practices for data platforms is desirable.

Professional & Consulting Skills

• Strong troubleshooting and analytical problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and business stakeholders.
• Comfort working across data engineering, BI, security, infrastructure, and application teams.
• Ability to document procedures and translate recurring issues into repeatable operational processes.
• Strong ownership, attention to detail, and willingness to learn new Snowflake capabilities.
• Ability to work effectively in client-facing or consulting environments.