Snowflake Admin/Architect

Position: Snowflake Admin/Architect

Location: Austin/TX or Silicon Valley /CA (Day 1 Onsite at Client Location)

Employment: FTE/FTC

Must be 10+ years experience

Interview within 48 hours

Mode of Interview : L1 Round then Client Round

Snowflake Admin+ Architect – This is Architect Role but into Admin side of Snowflake

Must Skills : Candidate should work as Snowflake Admin then he became Architect + Scripting knowledge DOES NOT IF CANDIDATE NEVER WORKED IN SNOWFLAKE ADMIN IN HIS CAREER

Must Skills : like understanding of snowflake encryption key management, replication and disaster recovery and other similar pure admin related activities

Job Description

• Design, develop, and support highly parallel and fault-tolerant database systems
• Introduce tools to facilitate greater automation and operability of services
• Utilize your deep experience and problem-solving skills to help prevent and investigate production issues
• Create runtime tools/processes that optimize cloud triaging and limit downtime
• Define best practices around making our systems and services measurable
• Work closely with our various teams to ensure those best practices get applied
• Maintain technical ownership and ensure concise collaboration with the technical leadership of other major parts of Snowflake
• Architect critical systems and anticipate strategic challenges and opportunities in key areas such as query processing, transaction management or distributed data processing algorithms
• Own the production rollout of the features of your area while at the same time leveraging and growing other strong engineering talent in your team
• Evaluate and determine priorities with a critical understanding of where performance matters most
• Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them
• Pinpoint problems, instrument relevant components as needed, and ultimately implement solutions
• Provide, improve and translate a highly automated infrastructure pipeline for deploying and scaling a distributed, multi-tenant, high performance compute and data platform to new environments

Our Ideal Snowflake Architect Will Have

Multiple years (5-10) experience with:

• Software engineering or DevOps
• Cloud computing (AWS, Azure, GCP, or others)
• Distributed database systems (Snowflake, Singlestore, Teradata, Big Query, FoundationDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.)
• Experience in programming in at least one of the following languages: Java, Python, Go, C++
• Experience with time-series based monitoring / observability systems
• Experience with Cloud computing toolsets - Terraform, Vault, Packer etc.
• Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Pulumi, Chef, Puppet)
• Good knowledge of distributed systems, APIs, cloud computing patterns
• Tremendous attention to details and ability to build reliable and scalable software systems
• Effective communication and collaboration skills
• Solid interpersonal skills conducive to a team environment
• Able to debug, troubleshoot, and resolve complex technical issues
• Self-driven & motivated, with a strong work ethic and a passion for problem solving
• Experience and knowledge of Git, JIRA, and Jenkins a plus