Job Title: Snowflake DBA - W2 Only - We can provide sponsorship
Duration: Long Term
Location: Westlake, TX - 2 Weeks in a Month onsite
Must Have: Recent Snowflake DBA experience (maintenance, upgrades, troubleshooting), AWS, python.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors or master’s in engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science or Information Technology or equivalent experience
- 3-4 years of hands-on experience with Snowflake Administration (AWS preferred but Azure is okay too)
- 5+ Years of hand on DBA experience with MPP systems and large Data warehouses
- 5+ years of scripting and automation experience using Shell / Perl / Python
- Proficiency in Snowflake platform Architecture, function/feature
- Understanding User/Data/Network Security
- Awareness of DB Optimization techniques pertinent to Snowflake
- Monitoring, alerting of the Snowflake platform
- Understanding of data ingress & egress patterns between Snowflake & different CSPs
- Proficiency in SQL and Procedural languages of any major RDBMS like Oracle, DB2, Postgres or SQL Server
- Participating in on-call rotation & production support
- Working experience on MPP systems like – Netezza, Teradata, Greenplum, Hadoop etc.
- Working experience and good understanding of big data eco systems like Hadoop
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
- Your ability to support multiple RDBMS like Postgres, Snowflake, SQL server, DB2 & Netezza in addition to Oracle
- You bring 5+ years of SQL & PL/SQL experience or other Database programming languages
- Your able to participate in DB design discussions and offer consulting services to Business and Data modelers.
- Your able to participate in Logical/Physical design discussions with Architects and Application teams.
- You bring the competencies and Architectures related to High Availability, Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity.
- You bring the experience in backend programming languages like PL/SQL, T-SQL, NZ SQL etc.
- You have scripting experience with Unix shell, Python, Perl, C,
- You are familiar with Java, J2EE, Embedded SQL, Forms, Reports, etc.
- You are able to support other RDBMS like Postgres, Snowflake, SQL server, DB2 & Netezza
- Your able bring Application experts and other infrastructure teams together for finding optimal solutions to issues related to capacity, security, performance
- The Senior DBA will be expected to be an Oracle technical expert in database domain.
- Skills (effective communication, able to work with teams, presentation skills) required for the role.
