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Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer

Q1 Technologies, Inc
  • Aurora, IL
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Q1 Technologies, Inc

Job Description

As a Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer, you will design, secure, automate, operate, and optimize enterprise Snowflake environments across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

You will partner with Data Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Information Security & Risk, and FinOps teams to deliver a secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-efficient Snowflake platform for enterprise analytics and data workloads.

Core Responsibilities

1. Snowflake Platform Engineering: Design, configure, operate, and govern Snowflake environments across GCP and AWS, including accounts, databases, schemas, virtual warehouses, resource monitors, and cloud storage integrations.

2. Security & Compliance: Implement RBAC, SSO, service authentication, encryption, masking policies, secrets management, audit controls, and private network connectivity in partnership with Information Security & Risk.

3. Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD: Automate Snowflake provisioning and lifecycle management using Terraform, Git, and CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GCP Cloud Build, Harness, or equivalent tooling.

4. Performance & FinOps: Monitor and optimize query performance, warehouse sizing and scaling, resource utilization, clustering where appropriate, credit consumption, and storage costs.

5. Reliability & Operations: Implement monitoring, alerting, operational runbooks, incident management, capacity management, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery practices for production Snowflake environments.

6. Platform Standards & Enablement: Develop reusable Terraform modules, automation, security guardrails, deployment standards, documentation, and self-service capabilities for data engineering and analytics teams.

Required Qualifications

· 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, or software engineering, including 3+ years of hands-on Snowflake experience.

· Strong knowledge of Snowflake administration, architecture, security, workload management, performance optimization, and cost management.

Role Descriptions: 1.Snowflake Platform Engineering: Design| configure| operate| and govern Snowflake environments across GCP and AWS| including accounts| databases| schemas| virtual warehouses| resource monitors| and cloud storage integrations.2.Security & Compliance: Implement RBAC| SSO| service authentication| encryption| masking policies| secrets management| audit controls| and private network connectivity in partnership with Information Security & Risk.3.Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD: Automate Snowflake provisioning and lifecycle management using Terraform| Git| and CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions| GCP Cloud Build| Harness| or equivalent tooling.4.Performance & FinOps: Monitor and optimize query performance| warehouse sizing and scaling| resource utilization| clustering where appropriate| credit consumption| and storage costs.5.Reliability & Operations: Implement monitoring| alerting| operational runbooks| incident management| capacity management| backup/recovery| and disaster recovery practices for production Snowflake environments.6.Platform Standards & Enablement: Develop reusable Terraform modules| automation| security guardrails| deployment standards| documentation| and self-service capabilities for data engineering and analytics teams.Required Qualifications5+ years of experience in platform engineering| cloud infrastructure| data platforms| or software engineering| including 3+ years of hands-on Snowflake experience.Strong knowledge of Snowflake administration| architecture| security| workload management| performance optimization| and cost management.Hands-on experience with GCP and/or AWS| including IAM| networking| private connectivity| security| and cloud storage.Advanced proficiency with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.Experience implementing CI/CD and Git-based deployment workflows.Strong SQL skills for performance analysis and troubleshooting.Scripting experience with Python and/or Bash.Experience supporting production platforms| including monitoring| incident response| reliability| and operational automation.
Essential Skills: 1.Snowflake Platform Engineering: Design| configure| operate| and govern Snowflake environments across GCP and AWS| including accounts| databases| schemas| virtual warehouses| resource monitors| and cloud storage integrations.2.Security & Compliance: Implement RBAC| SSO| service authentication| encryption| masking policies| secrets management| audit controls| and private network connectivity in partnership with Information Security & Risk.3.Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD: Automate Snowflake provisioning and lifecycle management using Terraform| Git| and CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions| GCP Cloud Build| Harness| or equivalent tooling.4.Performance & FinOps: Monitor and optimize query performance| warehouse sizing and scaling| resource utilization| clustering where appropriate| credit consumption| and storage costs.5.Reliability & Operations: Implement monitoring| alerting| operational runbooks| incident management| capacity management| backup/recovery| and disaster recovery practices for production Snowflake environments.6.Platform Standards & Enablement: Develop reusable Terraform modules| automation| security guardrails| deployment standards| documentation| and self-service capabilities for data engineering and analytics teams.Required Qualifications5+ years of experience in platform engineering| cloud infrastructure| data platforms| or software engineering| including 3+ years of hands-on Snowflake experience.Strong knowledge of Snowflake administration| architecture| security| workload management| performance optimization| and cost management.Hands-on experience with GCP and/or AWS| including IAM| networking| private connectivity| security| and cloud storage.Advanced proficiency with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.Experience implementing CI/CD and Git-based deployment workflows.Strong SQL skills for performance analysis and troubleshootin

Numbers & Facts

LocationAurora, IL
IndustryComputer/IT Services
Company Size500 to 999 employees
Year Founded1990
Websitehttp://q1tech.com/

About Company

Q1 consists of experienced and recognized experts providing the capability to respond to market demand in order to provide professional services for our clients including Enterprise software implementations, application integration and technical / functional support.

Q1 has steadily grown into a Quality IT services and solutions organization with the average experience of our team being over 10 years. We have continuously met or exceeded client expectations by delivering professional services and project implementations on time and under budget to help clients truly recognize return on investment.

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  • Automationunmatched
  • Bash Scriptingunmatched
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  • Gitunmatched
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  • Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
  • Query Optimizationunmatched
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  • Riskunmatched
  • SQL (Structured Query Language)unmatched
  • Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
  • Security Architectureunmatched
  • Single Sign-On (SSO)unmatched
  • Snowflake Schemaunmatched
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