Senior Database Admin Newport Beach, CA

Esrhealthcare And Exec Staff Recruiters; Newport Beach (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Esrhealthcare And Exec Staff Recruiters seeks a Senior Database Admin to lead Snowflake operations in an on-site, cloud-centric role. You will optimize performance, manage warehouses, and implement robust security and DR strategies for a data-intensive environment.

Candidates should bring 5+ years in database engineering with Snowflake at scale, strong SQL and Python skills, and deep AWS integration experience. This is a contract-to-hire, on-site position in Newport Beach/Austin.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in database engineering/development; 3+ years hands-on, production Snowflake at scale.
• 2+ years as a cloud database engineer; 2+ years in public cloud (AWS preferred).
• Expert Snowflake performance engineering: profiling, pruning effectiveness, clustering, Search Optimization, Dynamic Tables, Streams & Tasks.
• Proven AWS integration: S3, IAM/KMS, VPC/PrivateLink, CloudWatch, Lambda/events.
• Strong SQL and Python; Snowpark experience preferred.
• Security/compliance: RBAC, masking/row policies, object tagging, SSO/SAML/OAuth; knowledge of controls.

Responsibilities

• Architect and operate a cloud-native Snowflake platform on AWS (account/region strategy, security, networking, environment topology).
• Own workload performance and spend: warehouse sizing, multi-cluster, scaling policy, Resource Monitors, Query Acceleration Service, caching, workload isolation.
• Tune queries and data design: micro-partition optimization, clustering keys, Search Optimization Service, materialized views, Dynamic Tables.
• Apply storage patterns: permanent/transient/temporary tables, External/Iceberg Tables; leverage zero-copy cloning for dev/test.
• Implement security and governance: RBAC, tag-based policies, column masking/row access, SSO/SAML/OAuth, network policies/PrivateLink, KMS integration.
• Monitor and alert using ACCOUNT_USAGE, INFORMATION_SCHEMA, Event Tables; integrate with CloudWatch/Slack/PagerDuty; define SLAs/SLOs.
• Deliver DR/backup strategies: Time Travel, Fail-safe, cross-region replication, and failover/failback.

Skills

Snowflake performance tuning

SQL

Python

AWS

CI/CD

Terraform

SnowSQL

Data warehousing

Tools

Snowflake

S3

VPC/PrivateLink

CloudWatch

SnowSQL

Terraform

Job description

Senior Database Admin Newport Beach, CA | Austin, Tx On-site

Contract-to-Hire

Client Note: This is primarily a database administration role focused on performance tuning and optimization in snowflake

Key Responsibilities

• - Architect and operate a cloud-native Snowflake platform on AWS (account/region strategy, security, networking, environment topology).
• - Own workload performance and spend: warehouse sizing (single/multi-cluster, scaling policy), Resource Monitors, Query Acceleration Service, caching, and workload isolation.
• - Tune queries and data design: micro-partition optimization, clustering keys, Search Optimization Service, materialized views, Dynamic Tables.
• - Apply modern storage patterns: permanent/transient/temporary tables, External/Iceberg Tables; leverage zero-copy cloning for dev/test.
• - Implement security and governance: RBAC, tag-based policies, column masking/row access, SSO/SAML/OAuth, network policies/PrivateLink, KMS integration.
• - Monitor and alert using ACCOUNT_USAGE, INFORMATION_SCHEMA, Event Tables; integrate with CloudWatch/Slack/PagerDuty; define SLAs/SLOs.
• - Deliver DR/backup strategies: Time Travel, Fail-safe, cross-region replication, and failover/failback.

Qualifications

• - 5+ years in database engineering/development; 3+ years hands-on, production Snowflake at scale.
• - 2+ years as a cloud database engineer; 2+ years in public cloud (AWS preferred).
• - Expert Snowflake performance engineering: profiling, pruning effectiveness, clustering, Search Optimization, Dynamic Tables, Streams & Tasks.
• - Proven AWS integration: S3, IAM/KMS, VPC/PrivateLink, CloudWatch, Lambda/events.
• - Strong SQL and Python; Snowpark experience preferred.
• - Security/compliance: RBAC, masking/row policies, object tagging, SSO/SAML/OAuth/key-pair auth; familiarity with Business Critical controls.
• - DevOps/IaC and automation: Git, CI/CD, Terraform; scripting with bash/Python, SnowSQL/SnowCLI.
• - Monitoring/observability at scale; excellent communication, analytical problem-solving, and rigorous documentation.

Nice to Have

• - Snowflake Cortex AI: embeddings, vector search, LLM inference and governance.
• - Unistore/Hybrid Tables for operational patterns.
• - External/Iceberg Tables and data sharing/Marketplace.
• - Orchestration/ELT tools (dbt, Airflow, Fivetran).
• - Cross-cloud/region DR experience; SnowPro and AWS certifications.