Snowflake FinOps & Platform Administrator

KData AI; United States; Remote; CAD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

KData AI is seeking a seasoned Snowflake FinOps & Platform Administrator to own and optimize our enterprise Snowflake environment on AWS. This remote role requires hands-on administration, governance, and ongoing cost optimization across compute, storage, and data sharing.

You will design RBAC, implement Terraform-based provisioning, and build GitOps pipelines with GitHub Actions to automate operations, monitoring, and reporting while ensuring SLAs and security at scale.

Qualifications

• 15+ years IT experience in SysAdmin/DBA/platform ops.
• Extensive Snowflake admin in multi-account enterprise.
• Proven FinOps experience with cost optimization across warehouses, storage, and queries.
• Strong AWS management and security governance with RBAC and data sharing.

Responsibilities

• Manage multi-account Snowflake environments and governance.
• Lead database administration, system upgrades, user access patterns, and query workload profiling.
• Implement RBAC, data masking policies, and secure data sharing.
• Troubleshoot platform issues, query inefficiencies, and connectivity incidents.
• Design and track FinOps across Snowflake compute, warehouses, storage, and AWS services.
• Monitor sizing, auto-suspend/resume, multi-cluster concurrency, and query tuning for cost reductions.
• Establish cost baselines, chargeback/showback, budgets, and telemetry for savings.
• Monitor AWS consumption tied to Snowflake workflows and optimize storage tiers and networking costs.
• Codify provisioning and policy enforcement with Terraform.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines via GitHub and GitOps practices.
• Automate health checks, alerting, and reporting workflows.

Skills

Snowflake admin

FinOps

AWS admin

Terraform

GitHub Actions

RBAC security

Data masking

CI/CD pipelines

GitOps

Performance tuning

Tools

Snowflake

GitHub

Job description

We are seeking a seasoned, hands-on Snowflake FinOps & Platform Administrator with 15+ years of core IT experience to manage, secure, and optimize our enterprise Snowflake platform and supporting AWS infrastructure.

This is strictly a SysAdmin / DBA / Platform Engineer profile - not a data engineer or ETL developer. The ideal candidate brings extensive background in enterprise infrastructure, database administration, platform performance tuning, multi-account governance, infrastructure as code, and cloud financial management (FinOps). You will take direct ownership of configuring environments, diagnosing bottlenecks, implementing cost-saving measures, and automating administration via modern GitOps pipelines.

This is a remote position.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage, configure, and maintain multi-account Snowflake enterprise environments.
• Lead database administration, system upgrades, user access patterns, and query workload profiling.
• Implement robust platform governance, role-based access controls (RBAC), data masking policies, and secure data sharing.
• Troubleshoot and resolve platform issues, complex query inefficiencies, resource contention, and connectivity incidents.
• Design, implement, and track end-to-end FinOps frameworks across Snowflake compute, warehouses, storage, and AWS services.
• Analyze warehouse sizing, auto-suspend/resume mechanics, multi-cluster concurrency scaling, and query tuning to drive sustained cost reductions without impacting SLA.
• Establish cost baselines, chargeback/showback allocation models, budget thresholds, and telemetry to quantify realized savings.
• Monitor AWS infrastructure consumption tied to Snowflake data workflows and optimize cloud storage tiers and networking egress/ingress costs.
• Codify and automate Snowflake provisioning, configurations, and policy enforcement using Terraform.
• Build, maintain, and enhance CI/CD pipelines via GitHub adhering to strict GitOps best practices.
• Automate operational health checks, alerting, and reporting workflows.

Requirements

• Overall IT Experience: 15+ years of progressive experience in IT systems administration, enterprise database administration (DBA), or cloud platform operations.
• Extensive Snowflake Platform Expertise: Deep hands-on experience acting as a primary Snowflake Administrator / DBA in large, multi-account enterprise setups.
• Demonstrated FinOps Success: Proven track record analyzing credit consumption, identifying waste, and actively driving quantifiable cost optimizations across warehouses, storage, and queries.
• Cloud Infrastructure (AWS): Strong background managing AWS services, cost allocation, security configurations, and infrastructure integration with Snowflake.
• Security & Governance: Deep understanding of Snowflake security models, including granular RBAC design, row/column-level masking, network policies, and data sharing protocols.
• IaC & Tooling: Proficient in provisioning and deploying resources via Terraform, GitHub Actions, and GitOps delivery pipelines.
• Hands-on Mindset: Able to independently diagnose, benchmark, configure, and execute technical solutions end-to-end.

Required Certifications

• Snowflake SnowPro Advanced: Architect
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional