This is a highly strategic, pure operations and infrastructure leadership role that involves administering the underlying Snowflake infrastructure supporting globally distributed, multi-tenant SaaS applications operating at petabyte scale. The role demands deep expertise in systems administration, securing network perimeters, managing automated identity lifecycles, and engineering massive-scale cost-governance frameworks across dozens of federated Snowflake accounts.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 9–12 years of core IT/Database Operations experience, with a minimum of 5–7+ years operating explicitly as a Lead Snowflake Administrator or Cloud DBA in a Fortune 500 or multi-tenant SaaS environment.
- Mastery of Snowflake’s security models, specifically concerning programmatic API access, Oauth 2.0 configuration, SCIM, and automated credential rotation.
- Deep expertise in resolving complex Snowflake concurrency issues, managing queuing logic, and debugging systemic infrastructure bottlenecks via query profiling.
- Advanced scripting skills (Python, bash, SnowSQL) specifically utilized for systems administration, platform automation, and integrating with CI/CD pipelines (Terraform).
- Certifications: SnowPro Advanced: Administrator is heavily preferred. Active cloud administration certifications (AWS SysOps/Azure Administrator) are a significant plus.
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