Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer - Onsite Cincinnati

Apex Systems; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 150,000 - 164,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401K with company match

Employee stock purchase program

Job summary

Apex Systems is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to deliver hands-on technical leadership for the enterprise Snowflake platform in Cincinnati, on-site. You will manage administration, RBAC, costs, and security while collaborating with engineering, architecture, and security teams to maintain a scalable data platform.

Responsibilities include performance tuning, automation with Python/shell scripting, and creating dashboards and documentation to support platform operations and access reviews.

Qualifications

• Experience administering Snowflake in a production enterprise environment.
• Strong SQL proficiency and performance tuning.
• RBAC, service accounts, authentication integrations, and data protection controls.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily Snowflake platform administration including user access, roles, warehouses, and monitoring.
• Analyze query performance, warehouse utilization, and compute costs to optimize efficiency.
• Establish platform standards for sizing, auto-suspend/resume, monitors, and workload isolation.
• Monitor health, investigate incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventative measures.
• Develop dashboards and technical docs for monitoring and access reviews.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Performance tuning

Snowflake RBAC

Workload management

Cost monitoring

Automated DBA

Query history analysis

ACCOUNT_USAGE views

Python scripting

Shell scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field

Tools

Terraform

Python

Job description

Apex Systems is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to deliver hands-on technical leadership for the enterprise Snowflake platform in Cincinnati, on-site. You will manage administration, RBAC, costs, and security while collaborating with engineering, architecture, and security teams to maintain a scalable data platform.

Responsibilities include performance tuning, automation with Python/shell scripting, and creating dashboards and documentation to support platform operations and access reviews.