Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer: Performance & Security

Strategic Data Systems, Inc.; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid vacation time

Paid bench time

Training allowance

Referral bonuses

Job summary

SDS, Inc. is seeking a Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer to lead the administration, reliability, security, and cost optimization of our enterprise Snowflake environment.

You will partner with Data Engineering, Architecture, Security, and business teams to deliver a secure, scalable data platform supporting critical workloads. The ideal candidate has deep Snowflake administration experience, excellent SQL and performance-tuning skills, and the ability to troubleshoot complex production issues

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on Snowflake administration in a production enterprise environment.
• Deep Snowflake architecture knowledge: virtual warehouses, micro-partitions, caching, and resource usage.
• Advanced SQL skills with proven performance troubleshooting abilities.
• Experience implementing Snowflake RBAC, grants, and secure access patterns.
• Experience with warehouse sizing, cost monitoring, and compute optimization.
• Ability to troubleshoot production incidents and improve platform reliability.
• Strong documentation and independent work capability.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day Snowflake platform administration, including user/role management and access controls.
• Analyze and optimize query performance, warehouse utilization, and costs.
• Implement and maintain RBAC, service accounts, and authentication integrations.
• Establish platform standards for sizing, auto-suspend/resume, and cost management.
• Monitor health, investigate incidents, perform root cause analysis, and prevent reoccurrence.
• Manage database objects, schemas, tables, views, and retention settings.
• Support data integration with AWS services like S3 and IAM.
• Automate admin tasks using SQL, Python, scripting, and APIs.
• Develop dashboards and procedures for monitoring, incident response, and cost reporting.
• Collaborate with Data Eng, Architecture, Security, and business teams on platform upgrades and initiatives.

Skills

Advanced SQL and performance tuning

Automation and AWS integration

Cost and warehouse optimization

Platform Engineering

Production operations and Troubleshoo​

Security and access management

Snowflake platform administration

Job description

SDS, Inc. is seeking a Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer to lead the administration, reliability, security, and cost optimization of our enterprise Snowflake environment.

You will partner with Data Engineering, Architecture, Security, and business teams to deliver a secure, scalable data platform supporting critical workloads. The ideal candidate has deep Snowflake administration experience, excellent SQL and performance-tuning skills, and the ability to troubleshoot complex production issues