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# Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer

- **Company:** VERIDAY INC.
- **Location:** Arlington Heights, OH, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Query Performance, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Computer Networks, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Data Integration, Failover, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Performance Tuning, Role-Based Access Control, Standard Sql, Shell Script, SQL Databases, Scripting, Sql Optimization, Snowflake, Caching, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Terraform
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=c7011cd7ed01c333

## About the Role

* Extensive hands-on experience administering and supporting Snowflake in a production enterprise environment.
 * Strong knowledge of Snowflake architecture, including virtual warehouses, micro-partitions, caching, and query execution.
 * Advanced SQL skills with proven experience diagnosing and resolving query performance issues.
 * Practical experience implementing Snowflake RBAC, role hierarchies, grants, access policies, and secure access patterns.
 * Experience with warehouse sizing, workload management, cost monitoring, and compute optimization.
 * Experience troubleshooting production incidents and improving platform reliability.
 * Solid understanding of database administration, data governance, and enterprise security practices.
 * Ability to work independently, communicate effectively, and produce clear technical documentation.

 * Experience integrating Snowflake with AWS S3, IAM, Glue, and enterprise data pipelines
 * Python or shell scripting for automation; Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools
 * Snowflake security features: masking policies, row access policies, network policies, authentication integrations
 * Experience with multi-cluster warehouses, replication, failover, and business continuity
 * SnowPro Core or Advanced certification
 * Experience in financial services or another regulated enterprise environment

## Description

* Own day-to-day Snowflake administration, including user and role management, warehouse configuration, resource monitoring, and operational support.
 * Analyze and optimize query performance, warehouse utilization, concurrency, and compute costs using Snowflake monitoring and account usage capabilities.
 * Implement and maintain RBAC, least-privilege access, service accounts, authentication integrations, and data protection controls.
 * Establish platform standards for warehouse sizing, auto-suspend/resume, resource monitors, workload isolation, and cost management.
 * Monitor platform health, investigate incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventative measures.
 * Manage database objects and platform hygiene, including schemas, tables, views, retention settings, and cleanup of obsolete resources.
 * Support data integration and connectivity with AWS services (S3, IAM) and related ingestion and processing tools.
 * Automate administrative and operational tasks using SQL, Python, scripting, and APIs.
 * Develop operational dashboards and documentation for monitoring, incident response, access reviews, and cost reporting.
 * Collaborate with engineering teams on platform architecture, upgrades, new capabilities, and enterprise data initiatives.