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Lead Snowflake Admin
Syntricate Technologies Inc
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Hybrid
- Staff / Principal
- 8 months ago
- Snowflake
- IaC
- Devops
- Azure
- Linux
- RBAC
- DNS
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Git
- System Design
- Azure Cloud
8 months ago
Buffalo, NY or Wilmington, DE (3 days onsite/2 days remote - mandatory, no exceptions)
12+-month contract to possible hire
Web Cam Interview
$74.35-$123.90/Hr on W2
NOTES FROM MANAGER / REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:
- Snowflake Platform Team – 1 offshore & 2 onshore team members
- MUST possess a minimum of 12 yrs. Technical Engineering exp. (extensive technical exp. overall), & strong Snowflake skills (manager is seeking someone at the higher end of the rate range)
- Write IAC
- Comfy w/ Modern DevOps & Code Versioning Tools
- Possibly some side cloud responsibilities (Azure)
- Linux administration as well
Overview:
- Provide technical administrative support to our Snowflake systems and applications.
- Work with internal and external teams to help design solutions based on the needs of our Snowflake applications.
- Design resilient, scalable, and maintainable systems for the enterprise data platform team and interfacing applications.
Primary responsibilities:
Snowflake:
- Create and configure new Snowflake accounts as needed
- Design, implement, and support replication processes to ensure business continuity
- Design, implement, and support data sharing solutions for both in-bound and out-bound data shares
- Design, implement, and support role based access controls (RBAC) to properly secure our data
- Monitor cost and performance of activities on the Snowflake accounts
- Assist applications with troubleshooting needs
- Implement production application database changes when needed
- Provide 1st level Linux administration support for Snowflake application servers
- Foundational cloud concepts
- Experience building in Azure
- Good understanding of Private DNS zones, Blob Storage (tiers), Private endpoints & Private Link in relation to snowflake
- Experience with infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform and Ansible
- Comfort with code versioning tools (git)
Skill Set 1: Snowflake Administration
Skill Set 2: Infrastructure as Code
Skill Set 3: Linux Administration
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
- Combined minimum of 12 years higher education and/ or work experience in systems design, management, and/or architecture.
- Thorough understanding of the system development and infrastructure lifecycle and architecture, vendor best practices, IT Service Management, and systems design.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
- Minimum 12 years advanced experience in a technical engineering position involving infrastructure design technologies, data management and interchange, system design and/or development for complex applications.
- Ability to translate complex business and functional requirements into structured high quality implementations using any variety of industry standard approaches.
- Demonstrated ability to develop alternative solutions to complex problems and recommend the best solution to the technology business, and project teams.
- Advanced technical skills.
- Advanced analytical skills.
- Advanced troubleshooting skills.
- Advanced problem solving skills.
- Verifiable industry and/or vendor expertise in relative technologies.
- Able to meet with clients of varying levels to gather, document, and analyze system specifications and requirements, work closely with integrators, developers, and testers in the fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively with others in team environment.
- Ability to use effective facilitation skills and techniques to elicit and review requirements from a diverse range of stakeholders and group size.
- Understanding of how the people, processes and technology within an organization interact in relationships and patterns to create a feasible solution on projects of medium to high complexity.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Possesses effective influencing skills.
- Process-oriented.
- Logical thinker.
- Strong knowledge of server/client and virtual technologies.
- Ability to master complex tasks with minimal supervision.
- Experience with project estimation and budget/planning activities.
- Adaptable.
- Able to learn quickly in a rapid pace environment.
- Are you currently under contract w/ an employer where you require C2C only?
- If hired, can you work as a W2 employee of our company, Globalquest, for the contract duration (required, no exceptions)?
- Do you reside in or near the Buffalo, NY area, or open to relocation out of pocket to be onsite from day 1 in a hybrid work model (3 days onsite/2 days remote - mandatory, no exceptions)?
- If relocating, are you able to relocate within 2 weeks' of offer acceptance?
- LinkedIn profile link?
- Do you possess a combined minimum of 6 years higher education and/or work experience in systems design, management and/or architecture (required)?
- Do you possess exceptional communication skills (verbal/written)?
| Skill / Category | Experience (Years) | Relevant Project(s) | Commentary / Highlights | ||||
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| Overall IT experience | |||||||
| Lead Snowflake Admin (required) | |||||||
| Banking and/or Financial domains (required) | |||||||
| Ability to write Infrastructure as Code (IAC) w/ Terraform & Ansible (required) | |||||||
| Linux Administration (required) | |||||||
| Git (required) | |||||||
| Modern DevOps (required) | |||||||
| Code Versioning Tools (required) | |||||||
| Azure Cloud (required) |
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