Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer - Performance & Security

Eliassen Group

Cincinnati (OH)

On-site

USD 138,000 - 158,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group in Cincinnati, OH is seeking a Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership for enterprise Snowflake administration, security, performance, and cost optimization on-site.

The role partners with Data Engineering, Architecture, Security and business teams to ensure a secure, scalable data platform that supports critical workloads. Strong SQL, deep Snowflake expertise, and incident resolution are essential.

Qualifications

Strong Snowflake administration in production environments.
Advanced SQL with performance tuning capabilities.
Experience with RBAC and secure access patterns.
Ability to troubleshoot complex production incidents.
Experience with AWS data services and IaC tools.

Responsibilities

Lead day-to-day Snowflake platform administration, including user and role management and access controls.
Analyze and optimize query performance, warehouse utilization, and compute costs.
Implement and maintain RBAC, service accounts, and authentication integrations.
Establish platform standards for sizing, auto-suspend/resume, and cost management.
Monitor platform health, investigate incidents, perform root cause analysis, and prevent recurrences.
Manage databases objects and platform hygiene, including schemas and retention settings.
Support data integration with AWS services (S3, IAM, Glue).
Automate tasks using SQL, Python, scripts, and APIs.
Develop dashboards, documentation, and procedures for monitoring and cost reporting.
Collaborate with engineering on architecture, upgrades, and enterprise data initiatives.