Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer | Performance & Security

TEKsystems; Cincinnati (OH); In loco; USD 103.000 - 163.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

TEKsystems in Cincinnati, OH is seeking a Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer to lead hands-on administration, reliability, security, and optimization of a large Snowflake environment supporting critical workloads.

You will own day-to-day platform tasks, monitor performance and costs, implement RBAC and security controls, and partner with Data Engineering, Security, and Architecture teams to deliver scalable data capabilities.

Competenze

• Extensive hands-on Snowflake administration in a production enterprise environment.
• Strong knowledge of Snowflake architecture, virtual warehouses, micro-partitions, caching, query execution, and resource consumption.
• Advanced SQL skills and experience diagnosing and resolving query 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.
• Experience troubleshooting production incidents and improving platform reliability.
• Strong understanding of database administration, data governance, and enterprise security practices.

Mansioni

• Own day-to-day Snowflake platform 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/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, including S3, IAM, and relevant data ingestion and processing tools.
• Automate administrative tasks and operational processes using SQL, Python, scripting, and APIs.
• Develop operational dashboards, documentation, and procedures for platform monitoring, incident response, access reviews, and cost reporting.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on platform architecture, upgrades, new capabilities, and enterprise data initiatives.

Conoscenze

Snowflake

Python

Automation

Performance tuning

Security

Devops

Aws

Strumenti

Terraform

Descrizione del lavoro

TEKsystems in Cincinnati, OH is seeking a Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer to lead hands-on administration, reliability, security, and optimization of a large Snowflake environment supporting critical workloads.

You will own day-to-day platform tasks, monitor performance and costs, implement RBAC and security controls, and partner with Data Engineering, Security, and Architecture teams to deliver scalable data capabilities.