Snowflake Platform Engineer / Snowflake DBA

Veriipro; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Veriipro is seeking an experienced Snowflake Platform Engineer with 8+ years of experience in database, cloud, or data platform administration to design, secure, and optimize enterprise Snowflake environments. You will own Snowflake platform administration, architecture, configuration, maintenance, and performance tuning, with a focus on warehouse management, security, and access controls.

The role requires strong scripting (Python, Bash, SQL), experience with AWS, and hands-on work with CI/CD

Qualifications

• 8+ years in database engineering, cloud engineering, or data platform administration.
• Hands-on Snowflake administration, architecture, configuration, and maintenance.
• Experience with AWS and modern data platforms.
• Proficient in Python, Bash or SQL scripting for automation.
• Familiar with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, or Bitbucket.
• Familiar with Terraform and Ansible for IaC.
• Knowledge of backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and resiliency.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Administer and optimize enterprise Snowflake environments.
• Manage platform configuration, user access, security, and performance.
• Automate administrative tasks and platform operations.
• Support AWS integrations, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
• Troubleshoot platform issues and implement monitoring and recovery procedures.
• Collaborate with cloud, DevOps, security, and data engineering teams.

Skills

Snowflake platform administration

Cloud engineering

Data platform administration

Performance tuning

Security and access controls

Data warehousing concepts

Dimensional modeling

AWS cloud services

Python

Bash

SQL scripting

CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, Bitucket

Terraform

Ansible

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab

Bitbucket

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Snowflake Platform Engineer with 8+ years of experience in database engineering, cloud engineering, or data platform administration. The ideal candidate must have strong hands-on experience administering, configuring, securing, and optimizing enterprise Snowflake environments.

Required Skills

• 8+ years of experience in database engineering, cloud engineering, or data platform administration.
• Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake platform administration, architecture, configuration, and maintenance.
• Expertise in Snowflake performance tuning, virtual warehouse management, resource optimization, security, and access controls.
• Solid understanding of data warehousing concepts and dimensional modeling.
• Experience with AWS cloud services and modern data platforms.
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, and/or SQL scripting for automation.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, or Bitbucket.
• Familiarity with Terraform, Ansible, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
• Knowledge of backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and platform resiliency.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and optimize enterprise Snowflake environments.
• Manage platform configuration, user access, security, and performance.
• Automate administrative tasks and platform operations.
• Support AWS integrations, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
• Troubleshoot platform issues and implement monitoring and recovery procedures.
• Collaborate with cloud, DevOps, security, and data engineering teams.

Important: Candidates must have hands-on Snowflake platform administration and engineering experience, not just SQL querying or data pipeline development.