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# Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Snowflake & Data Platforms)

- **Company:** The Walt Disney Company
- **Location:** Burbank, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $141,900.0 - $190,300.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Business Analytics Applications, Systems Engineering, Bash Shell, Information Engineering, Data Security, Dataspaces, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), Role-Based Access Control, Reliability Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering Practices, Cloud Services, SQL Databases, Cloud Platform System, Snowflake, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Data Management, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** May 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=31d49ed3ab667eeb

## About the Role

* 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Systems Engineering roles.
 * 4+ years of hands-on experience administering Snowflake in production environments.
 * Strong understanding of Snowflake architecture, including compute, storage, virtual warehouses, and security.
 * Proficiency in automation and scripting (Python, SQL, Bash).
 * Experience operating in cloud environments (AWS preferred).
 * Experience supporting data pipelines or analytics platforms in production., * Experience with DBT, Airflow, or similar data orchestration tools.
 * Strong background in Snowflake cost optimization and usage governance.
 * Familiarity with data security, compliance, and access-control models.
 * Experience applying SRE principles specifically to data and analytics platforms.

Required Education:

 * Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.

## Description

* Own the operational health, availability, and performance of Snowflake environments supporting analytics and data workloads.
 * Define and implement reliability goals (SLIs/SLOs) for Snowflake and data-platform services.
 * Monitor Snowflake usage, performance, and concurrency to proactively identify risks and bottlenecks.
 * Lead incident response for Snowflake-related production issues, including performance degradation and availability concerns.

Automation & Platform Engineering

 * Automate Snowflake administration tasks such as:
 + Account and environment provisioning
 + Role-based access control
 + Resource and warehouse management
 + Usage and cost monitoring
 * Build infrastructure-as-code and policy-as-code solutions for Snowflake and supporting cloud services.
 * Reduce operational toil by building self-service workflows and guardrails for data teams.

Observability, Cost & Governance

 * Implement monitoring and alerting for Snowflake performance, query behavior, and system health.
 * Partner with stakeholders to drive cost optimization, usage governance, and capacity planning.
 * Improve security posture through least-privilege access, auditing, and compliance-aligned controls.

Collaboration & Enablement

 * Partner with data engineering teams to support reliable CI/CD pipelines for data workloads.
 * Work closely with analytics, platform, and security teams to ensure Snowflake is reliable by design.
 * Contribute to operational standards, documentation, and best practices for data platforms.
 * Mentor engineers and help mature SRE practices within the data ecosystem.


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