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Platform Engineer V
Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer
Location: Onsite, Cincinnati, Ohio (Prefer Locals)
Experience: 15 Yrs
Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer to manage, secure, optimize, and maintain its enterprise Snowflake data platform.
The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience in Snowflake administration, advanced SQL, query performance tuning, warehouse optimization, security and access management, and production troubleshooting.
This role will focus on improving platform reliability, optimizing compute costs, implementing security best practices, and supporting AWS integrations. The engineer will collaborate with Data Engineering, Architecture, Security, and business teams to ensure the platform remains secure, scalable, and efficient.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day Snowflake platform administration, including users, roles, permissions, virtual warehouses, and resource monitoring.
- Analyze and optimize SQL queries, warehouse utilization, concurrency, and compute costs.
- Implement Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), least-privilege access, service accounts, and authentication integrations.
- Establish standards for warehouse sizing, auto-suspend, auto-resume, resource monitors, and workload management.
- Monitor platform health, troubleshoot production issues, conduct root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.
- Manage Snowflake database objects, including databases, schemas, tables, and views.
- Support data integration between Snowflake and AWS services, including S3 and IAM.
- Automate platform administration and operational tasks using SQL, Python, scripting, and APIs.
- Develop monitoring dashboards, operational documentation, incident response procedures, and cost reports.
- Implement security controls, data protection policies, and access reviews.
- Collaborate with engineering and architecture teams on platform improvements and enterprise data initiatives.
- Ensure platform reliability, operational efficiency, security, and compliance with enterprise standards.
Key Skills
- Snowflake Platform Administration
- Advanced SQL and Query Performance Tuning
- Snowflake Warehouse and Cost Optimization
- Snowflake Security and RBAC
- Production Support and Troubleshooting
- AWS S3 and IAM Integration
- Python and SQL Automation
- Snowflake Monitoring and Resource Management
- Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
- Enterprise Data Platform Operations