Junior Snowflake Database Administrator

Established as a separate entity in 2025, ProBridge is a wholly owned subsidiary of Trellance. It evolved from Trellance’s Talent Line of Solutions, leveraging deep industry experience to provide organizations with access to highly skilled technology and finance professionals. ProBridge delivers both expert resources and customized solutions to our clients, helping scale teams, optimizing operations, and meeting their business objectives.

Summary

The Junior Snowflake DBA will support the administration, performance, security, monitoring, and day-to-day operation of enterprise Snowflake environments. The role is suited for a database professional with 2-3 years of relevant experience who can work with data engineering, BI, analytics, security, and cloud teams to maintain a reliable, secure, and cost-efficient Snowflake platform.

Responsibilities

• Support administration of Snowflake development, test, and production environments.
• Create and maintain users, roles, warehouses, databases, schemas, and access privileges.
• Implement and support role-based access control (RBAC) and least-privilege security practices.
• Monitor warehouse utilization, query performance, storage, concurrency, and platform health.
• Assist with query tuning, performance troubleshooting, and warehouse sizing recommendations.
• Monitor Snowflake credit consumption and support cost-optimization and resource-monitoring activities.
• Support data loading, unloading, stages, file formats, Snowpipe, tasks, streams, and scheduled processes.
• Assist with cloning, Time Travel, Fail-safe concepts, backup/recovery procedures, and environment refreshes.
• Troubleshoot failed jobs, connectivity issues, access problems, data-loading errors, and performance incidents.
• Support integrations with ETL/ELT, BI, cloud storage, and data engineering platforms.
• Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, access records, configuration standards, and change history.
• Participate in incident, change, release, and problem-management processes.
• Work with senior Snowflake administrators and architects on upgrades, new capabilities, and platform improvements.

Required Qualifications

Skill Area

Expected Capability

Snowflake Platform

Hands-on knowledge of databases, schemas, tables, views, stages, virtual warehouses, resource monitors, and Snowflake administration.

SQL

Strong SQL skills, including joins, CTEs, window functions, query plans, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.

Security & Access

Understanding of Snowflake RBAC, users, roles, grants, object ownership, network/security concepts, and least-privilege access.

Performance & Cost

Experience monitoring query history, warehouse performance, credit consumption, caching, clustering concepts, and workload optimization.

Data Loading

Knowledge of COPY INTO, internal/external stages, file formats, Snowpipe, streams, tasks, and common ingestion patterns.

Data Protection

Working understanding of Time Travel, zero-copy cloning, Fail-safe, secure data sharing, and recovery concepts.

Cloud Fundamentals

Exposure to AWS storage, networking, identity, and security concepts used with Snowflake.

Integration

Familiarity with ETL/ELT and BI tools such as dbt ,Azure Data Factory, Power BI, or Tableau.

Scripting & Automation

Basic Python, PowerShell, Bash, or Snowflake scripting experience for operational automation is preferred.

Monitoring

Ability to use Snowflake ACCOUNT_USAGE / INFORMATION_SCHEMA views and monitoring dashboards to identify operational issues.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data/Analytics, or a related discipline.
• 2-3 years of database, cloud data platform, or data engineering experience, with practical Snowflake exposure.
• SnowPro Core certification is preferred or willingness to obtain it.
• Hands-on experience administering Snowflake Cortex AI, including Cortex Search, Cortex Analyst, Cortex Agents, LLM functions, security/RBAC, monitoring, and cost/resource optimization.
• Support the deployment and operationalization of AI/GenAI workloads on Snowflake, including environment configuration, governance, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and integration with enterprise data pipelines.
• Experience working in regulated industries such as banking, credit unions, financial services, healthcare, or insurance is a plus.
• Familiarity with ITIL-style incident/change management and ticketing tools such as ServiceNow or Jira is beneficial.
• Exposure to CI/CD, Git, infrastructure-as-code, or DevOps practices for data platforms is desirable.

Professional & Consulting Skills

• Strong troubleshooting and analytical problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and business stakeholders.
• Comfort working across data engineering, BI, security, infrastructure, and application teams.
• Ability to document procedures and translate recurring issues into repeatable operational processes.
• Strong ownership, attention to detail, and willingness to learn new Snowflake capabilities.
• Ability to work effectively in client-facing or consulting environments.