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Snowflake Platform Engineer

Ztek Consulting
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 6/9/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/9/2026

Job Role: Snowflake Platform Engineer (Snowflake Admin Azure DevOps Terraform)

Location: Chicago, IL

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced Snowflake Platform Engineer as part of the Platform Engineering team. The role focuses on Snowflake administration, security, performance optimization, automation, and CI/CD integration within cloud environments (Azure/AWS)

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Administer Snowflake infrastructure, performance, and security policies (RBAC, encryption) and audit controls.
  2. Optimize warehouse usage, storage, and query performance.
  3. Automate platform management using Terraform, Python, JavaScript, and SQL.
  4. Develop Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines with Terraform.
  5. Ensure cost monitoring, governance, and compliance.
  6. Support troubleshooting, incident resolution, and platform integration with cloud services (Azure and AWS both)

Required Skills:

  1. 10-13 years of overall data warehouse development/administration experience, with recent 3 years of experience in Snowflake.
  2. Strong SQL, Python, JavaScript, Terraform, and cloud (Azure/AWS) expertise.
  3. Experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines or similar technology.
  4. Strong understanding of Snowflake Architecture including RBAC, cost optimization, and security best practices.

Preferred:

  1. Snowflake SnowPro Core Certification.
  2. Snowflake SnowPro Advanced Architect Certification

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