Senior Platform Engineer

Role: Engineer

Required Skills: SNOW

Experience: 8 - 12 Years

Function: TECHNOLOGY

Apply By: 2026-12-25

Senior Platform Engineer (Snowflake)

Role Purpose

Administers the Snowflake cloud data platform end to end, including platform architecture, administration, deployment automation, environment management, access enablement, security, warehouse operations, performance engineering, reliability, and FinOps. Partners with data engineering, DevSecOps, governance, security, and business teams to provide a secure, scalable, cost-efficient, and production-ready platform.

Platform Skills and Capabilities

Snowflake administration and architecture, account and organization management, databases and schemas, virtual warehouses and resource monitors, RBAC and access provisioning, SSO and identity federation, network policies and private connectivity, Snowflake Terraform Provider, SQL, Python, Snowpark, Streams and Tasks, monitoring, query profiling, performance tuning, backup and recovery, and CI/CD deployment automation.

Governance and Operating Standards

Platform governance and operating standards, least-privilege access controls, user and role lifecycle management, change and release management, environment promotion, capacity and workload management, FinOps and cost allocation, security and compliance monitoring, incident and problem management, SLA/SLO management, disaster recovery, audit readiness, and vendor/platform lifecycle management.

Core Responsibilities

Architects, administers, automates, and continuously improves the Snowflake platform. Enables secure access, manages platform and warehouse operations, automates deployments, optimizes workload performance and cost, and ensures reliable service across development, test, and production environments.

Key Deliverables

• Snowflake account and environment architecture
• RBAC roles and access models
• User and service-account provisioning workflows
• Terraform deployment modules
• CI/CD platform deployment pipelines
• Virtual warehouse and resource-monitor standards
• FinOps dashboards and cost-allocation reports
• Performance tuning and query optimization
• Security, audit, and compliance controls
• Monitoring, alerting, DR, and support runbooks

Salary Range- $95,000-$120,000 a year

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