Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer | Performance & Cost

BCforward; Cincinnati (OH); Vor Ort; USD 158.000 - 161.000; Teilzeit

Zusammenfassung

BCforward is seeking a Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer to join our Cincinnati team. You will own Snowflake administration, optimize queries, configure RBAC, and drive cost optimization across the enterprise data platform.

The role focuses on secure, reliable operations, incident handling, and collaborating with engineering, security, and business teams on platform upgrades and new capabilities.

Qualifikationen

• Extensive hands-on experience administering Snowflake in a production environment.
• Strong knowledge of Snowflake architecture, virtual warehouses, micro-partitions, caching, and resource consumption.
• Advanced SQL skills with experience diagnosing and resolving performance issues.
• Experience implementing Snowflake RBAC, role hierarchies, grants, access policies, and secure access patterns.
• Experience with warehouse sizing, workload management, cost monitoring, and compute optimization.
• Understanding of database administration, data governance, and enterprise security practices.

Aufgaben

• Own day-to-day Snowflake administration, including user and role management, access controls, warehouse configuration, resource monitoring, and operational support.
• Analyze and optimize query performance, warehouse utilization, concurrency, and compute costs using Snowflake monitoring and account usage capabilities.
• Implement and maintain RBAC, least-privilege access, service accounts, authentication integrations, and data protection controls.
• Establish platform standards for warehouse sizing, auto-suspend and auto-resume, resource monitors, workload isolation, and cost management.
• Monitor platform health, investigate incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventative measures to improve reliability.
• Manage database objects and platform hygiene, including schemas, tables, views, retention settings, and obsolete resource cleanup.
• Support data integration and connectivity with AWS services such as S3 and IAM, and relevant ingestion and processing tools.
• Automate administrative tasks and operations using SQL, Python, scripting, and APIs.
• Develop operational dashboards, documentation, and procedures for monitoring, incident response, access reviews, and cost reporting.
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, security, and business teams on platform architecture, upgrades, new capabilities, and enterprise data initiatives.

Kenntnisse

Snowflake administration

SQL performance tuning

RBAC & security

Cost optimization

Incident resolution

Documentation

Tools

Terraform

Python scripting

AWS S3

Snowflake monitoring

IAM integration

Jobbeschreibung

BCforward is seeking a Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer to join our Cincinnati team. You will own Snowflake administration, optimize queries, configure RBAC, and drive cost optimization across the enterprise data platform.

The role focuses on secure, reliable operations, incident handling, and collaborating with engineering, security, and business teams on platform upgrades and new capabilities.