Senior Data Platform Engineer - Snowflake
Altered Resourcing
Manchester, United Kingdom
6 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Senior Compensation
£ 12KJob location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Audit Trail
Azure
Bash
Cloud Engineering
Data Infrastructure
Data Masking
Data Sharing
Disaster Recovery
Federated Identity Management
Github
Python
Performance Tuning
Role-Based Access Control
Runbook
SQL Databases
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
Snowflake
Usage Tracking
Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
Terraform
Job description
- Design, build, and manage Snowflake platform capabilities within an enterprise data environment
- Automate infrastructure and resource provisioning using Terraform (IaC)
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps)
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability frameworks
- Lead cost optimisation initiatives across Snowflake workloads
- Define and enforce security best practices (RBAC, data masking, identity integration)
- Establish governance and compliance frameworks (audit logging, access reviews)
- Design and implement disaster recovery and business continuity strategies
- Create reusable modules, templates, and platform standards
- Produce high-quality documentation, runbooks, and onboarding materials
Requirements
- Strong experience in platform or cloud engineering within enterprise environments
- Deep expertise in Snowflake (warehousing, RBAC, data sharing, performance tuning)
- Hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
- Proven experience building CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps)
- Strong scripting skills (SQL, Python, or Bash)
- Solid understanding of Snowflake security features (masking, encryption, identity federation)
- Experience with monitoring, query profiling, and usage tracking
- Demonstrated ability to optimise performance and manage costs in large-scale environments
- Strong communication skills with the ability to work across engineering, data, and compliance teams
- Proactive approach to documentation and platform standards
Benefits & conditions
- 25 days holiday (with option to buy/sell)
- Annual bonus
- Private healthcare
- Enhanced pension and life insurance
- Flexible working arrangements
- Wellbeing support and lifestyle benefits
- Access to discounts and additional perks