Snowflake administrator

Experience - 5+ Years

Mandatory Skillset : Snowflake Admin

Manage and maintain Snowflake environments (development, test, and production)

Exploring all the new features in Snowflake and do a POV or POC on the same

Should be able to support Snowflake Cortex as well.

Monitor system health, performance, and storage utilization to ensure optimal operation.

Perform user and role administration, warehouse management, and access provisioning.

Coordinate version upgrades, patching, and system maintenance with minimal downtime.

Implement and enforce data governance policies, including access control, role hierarchy, and data masking.

Manage authentication mechanisms (SSO, MFA, key-based access) in alignment with organizational security standards.

Monitor and tune query performance, warehouse sizing, and resource utilization.

Identify long-running or high-cost queries and implement optimization strategies.

Enable automatic clustering and caching strategies to improve performance and cost efficiency.

Manage incidents, service requests, and changes via established ITSM processes.

Perform root-cause analysis (RCA) for recurring or critical issues and implement preventive measures.

Maintain operational runbooks, knowledge articles, and support documentation.

Generate and maintain operational dashboards and usage reports.

Track warehouse utilization, credit consumption, and optimize cost efficiency.

Provide periodic platform health and performance reports to stakeholders.

Coordinate deployment activities, sandbox testing, and validation prior to release.

Maintain rollback procedures and ensure adherence to change control protocols.

Support migration of new features or enhancements into production.