Snowflake Administrator

Role Title: Senior Snowflake Administrator Employment Type: Contract-to-Hire Duration: 6 months to start, potential for contract to hire Preferred Location: local to Buffalo, NY - 4 days per week in office Role Description: Provide technical administrative support for Snowflake systems and applications. Partner with internal and external teams to design solutions that meet the needs of Snowflake-based applications. Build resilient, scalable, and maintainable systems for the enterprise data platform team and all interfacing applications. Primary Responsibilities Snowflake • Create and configure new Snowflake accounts as needed • Design, implement, and support replication processes to ensure business continuity • Design, implement, and support data-sharing solutions for both inbound and outbound data exchanges • Design, implement, and support role-based access controls (RBAC) to properly secure enterprise data • Monitor cost and performance across Snowflake accounts • Assist application teams with troubleshooting • Implement production application database changes when required • Linux • Provide first-level Linux administration support for Snowflake application servers Requirements: - Senior/seasoned DBA with 10 years of experience • Need 5+ years of hands-on Snowflake administration and support experience (if they have less than 5 years of snowflake experience but have similar experience with Teradata or Oracle and some recent snowflake still send) • Banking or other highly regulated industry is a plus • Strong understanding of foundational cloud concepts • Experience building in Azure • Solid knowledge of Private DNS zones, Blob Storage (including storage tiers), Private Endpoints, and Private Link as they relate to Snowflake • DevOps • Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and Ansible • Comfort with code versioning tools (e.g., Git) • Experience with first-level Linux administration support for Snowflake application servers