Snowflake Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

VMC Soft Technologies, Inc; Dublin (OH); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

VMC Soft Technologies, Inc. in Dublin, OH seeks a Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer to design, secure, automate, operate, and optimize enterprise Snowflake environments across Google Cloud Platform and AWS.

You will partner with Data Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Information Security & Risk, and FinOps to deliver a secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-efficient Snowflake platform for analytics and data workloads.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, or data platforms with Snowflake experience.
• Strong Snowflake administration, architecture, security, and cost management skills.
• Hands-on with GCP and AWS including IAM, networking, and private connectivity.
• Expertise in Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices, CI/CD workflows, and scripting.

Responsibilities

• Design, operate, and govern Snowflake environments across GCP and AWS.
• Automate provisioning and lifecycle using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement security controls, RBAC, SSO, encryption, and audit logging.
• Monitor performance, optimize warehouses, and manage costs with FinOps practices.
• Develop platform standards, reusable modules, and self-service capabilities for data teams.

Skills

Snowflake platform engineering

Cloud infrastructure

Security & compliance

Terraform

Git-based CI/CD

GCP & AWS

SQL

Python/Bash scripting

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GCP Cloud Build

Harness

CI/CD tooling

Snowflake

IAM

Job description

Dublin, OH

Experience: 10+ years

Job Description :

As a Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer, you will design, secure, automate, operate, and optimize enterprise Snowflake environments across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

You will partner with Data Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Information Security & Risk, and FinOps teams to deliver a secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-efficient Snowflake platform for enterprise analytics and data workloads.

Core Responsibilities

• Snowflake Platform Engineering: Design, configure, operate, and govern Snowflake environments across GCP and AWS, including accounts, databases, schemas, virtual warehouses, resource monitors, and cloud storage integrations.
• Security & Compliance: Implement RBAC, SSO, service authentication, encryption, masking policies, secrets management, audit controls, and private network connectivity in partnership with Information Security & Risk.
• Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD: Automate Snowflake provisioning and lifecycle management using Terraform, Git, and CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GCP Cloud Build, Harness, or equivalent tooling.
• Performance & FinOps: Monitor and optimize query performance, warehouse sizing and scaling, resource utilization, clustering where appropriate, credit consumption, and storage costs.
• Reliability & Operations: Implement monitoring, alerting, operational runbooks, incident management, capacity management, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery practices for production Snowflake environments.
• Platform Standards & Enablement: Develop reusable Terraform modules, automation, security guardrails, deployment standards, documentation, and self-service capabilities for data engineering and analytics teams.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, or software engineering, including 5+ years of hands-on Snowflake experience.
• Strong knowledge of Snowflake administration, architecture, security, workload management, performance optimization, and cost management.
• Hands-on experience with GCP and/or AWS, including IAM, networking, private connectivity, security, and cloud storage.
• Advanced proficiency with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Experience implementing CI/CD and Git-based deployment workflows.
• Strong SQL skills for performance analysis and troubleshooting.
• Scripting experience with Python and/or Bash.
• Experience supporting production platforms, including monitoring, incident response, reliability, and operational automation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating Snowflake environments across both GCP and AWS.
• Experience with enterprise security, governance, compliance, and FinOps practices.
• Experience building reusable platform automation and self-service capabilities.
• Experience in a regulated enterprise environment such as healthcare or financial services.