Snowflake Administrator

Brooksource; Louisville (KY); Remote; USD 125,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with company match

Paid time off

Health, dental, vision

Job summary

Brooksource seeks a Cloud Platform Engineer to own the Snowflake Platform across the enterprise. You will administer Snowflake accounts, warehouses, security controls, RBAC, data sharing, and governance, while optimizing performance and cost.

In this remote role, you will collaborate with data engineering, analytics, and security teams, implement IaC with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines, and mentor engineering squads on best practices and platform governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years of cloud platform engineering or administration experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on Snowflake administration experience in enterprise environments.
• Experience with Snowflake warehouses, RBAC, resource monitors, data sharing, replication, and security controls.
• Experience implementing Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code.

Responsibilities

• Administer Snowflake accounts, warehouses, databases, schemas, roles, monitors, and platform configurations.
• Configure and manage RBAC, data masking, row-level security, tagging, data sharing, and governance capabilities.
• Manage users, SCIM provisioning, SSO integrations, and identity management.
• Implement IaC using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitor platform health, performance, consumption, and costs; drive optimization initiatives.
• Troubleshoot platform, security, access, networking, and performance issues.
• Partner with Security and Compliance teams to implement governance and controls.
• Design and maintain platform architecture standards and roadmaps.
• Enable adoption of Snowflake capabilities and related tools.
• Develop automation and self-service platform capabilities.
• Mentor teams on Snowflake best practices and governance.

Skills

Cloud platform engineering

Snowflake administration

Terraform

Automation

Cost optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Cloud Administrator - Snowflake Platform

Remote

Cloud Platform Engineer (Snowflake Platform) is responsible for the administration, architecture, governance, security and performance of the enterprise Snowflake platform. This role serves as the Platform expert of Snowflake and works closely with data engineering, analytics, architecture, security, and cloud teams to deliver a scalable, secure, and cost-effective data platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer Snowflake accounts, warehouses, databases, schemas, roles, resource monitors, and platform configurations.
• Configure and manage RBAC, data masking, row-level security, tagging, data sharing, and governance capabilities.
• Manage users, service accounts, SCIM provisioning, SSO integrations, and identity management.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitor platform health, performance, consumption, and costs; drive optimization initiatives.
• Troubleshoot platform, security, access, networking, and performance issues.
• Partner with Security and Compliance teams to implement governance, audit, and regulatory controls.
• Design and maintain platform architecture standards, operational processes, and roadmaps.
• Enable adoption of Snowpark, Cortex AI, Openflow, Iceberg Tables, and other Snowflake capabilities.
• Develop automation and self-service platform capabilities.
• Mentor engineering teams on Snowflake best practices and platform governance.
• Evaluate new Snowflake features and provide recommendations for enterprise adoption.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of cloud platform engineering or administration experience.
• 3+ years of hands‑on Snowflake administration experience in enterprise environments.
• Experience with Snowflake warehouses, RBAC, resource monitors, data sharing, replication, and security controls.
• Experience implementing Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong understanding of Azure cloud services, networking, identity, and security.
• Experience supporting data engineering, analytics, BI, or AI/ML workloads.
• Experience with performance tuning, cost optimization, and platform governance.
• Strong automation, troubleshooting, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• SnowPro Core, Administrator, or Architect certification.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and CI/CD automation.
• Experience with Snowpark, Cortex AI, Openflow, Native Apps, Data Clean Rooms, and Iceberg Tables.
• Experience integrating Snowflake with Databricks and modern lakehouse platforms.
• Experience with FinOps and cloud cost management practices.
• Experience supporting regulated data environments (HIPAA, PHI, PII, HITRUST).
• Experience with monitoring platforms such as Splunk, Datadog, Azure Monitor.

EEO Statement:

Brooksource is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances.

Benefits & Perks: Brooksource offers competitive medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Care FSA, and supplemental coverage with plans that can fit each employee’s needs. We offer a 401k plan that includes a company match and is fully vested after you become eligible, paid time off, sick time, and paid company holidays. We also offer an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that provides services like virtual counseling, financial services, legal services, life coaching, etc.

Pay Disclaimer: The pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.