Senior Snowflake FinOps & Platform Engineer

KData Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

KData Inc. is seeking a seasoned Snowflake FinOps & Platform Administrator to own and optimize enterprise Snowflake environments and AWS-backed infrastructure.

The role demands 15+ years in IT, deep Snowflake DBA experience, and a strong FinOps background with cost governance across compute, storage, and networking. The candidate will implement RBAC, data masking, secure data sharing, and GitOps-driven automation using Terraform and GitHub Actions, driving performance and cost improvements while

Qualifications

• Extensive Snowflake platform expertise in large multi-account setups.
• 15+ years in IT systems administration or cloud platform ops.
• Proven FinOps success with cost reductions across warehouses and storage.
• Strong AWS security, governance, and IAM concepts.
• Experience with IaC tools and GitOps delivery.

Responsibilities

• Manage, configure, and maintain multi-account Snowflake enterprise environments.
• Lead database administration, upgrades, user access patterns, and workload profiling.
• Implement RBAC, data masking, secure data sharing, and governance.
• Troubleshoot platform issues, query inefficiencies, contention, and connectivity incidents.
• Design and track FinOps across Snowflake compute, warehouses, storage, and AWS services.
• Assess warehouse sizing, auto-suspend/resume, multi-cluster concurrency, and query tuning.
• Establish cost baselines, chargeback/showback, budgets, and telemetry for savings.
• Monitor AWS consumption tied to Snowflake workflows and optimize storage/network costs.
• Codify provisioning and policy enforcement with Terraform.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines via GitHub and adhere to GitOps practices.
• Automate health checks, alerts, and reporting.

Skills

Snowflake Administration

FinOps

Platform Engineering

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GitOps

AWS

RBAC design

Data masking

Automation

CI/CD

IaC

Cost optimization

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Snowflake

AWS

Job description

KData Inc. is seeking a seasoned Snowflake FinOps & Platform Administrator to own and optimize enterprise Snowflake environments and AWS-backed infrastructure.

The role demands 15+ years in IT, deep Snowflake DBA experience, and a strong FinOps background with cost governance across compute, storage, and networking. The candidate will implement RBAC, data masking, secure data sharing, and GitOps-driven automation using Terraform and GitHub Actions, driving performance and cost improvements while