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Senior Database Admin Newport Beach, CA | Austin, Tx On-site

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Client Note

This is primarily a database administration role focused on performance tuning and optimization in snowflake

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and operate a cloud-native Snowflake platform on AWS (account/region strategy, security, networking, environment topology).

Own workload performance and spend

warehouse sizing (single/multi-cluster, scaling policy), Resource Monitors, Query Acceleration Service, caching, and workload isolation.

Tune queries and data design

micro-partition optimization, clustering keys, Search Optimization Service, materialized views, Dynamic Tables.

Apply modern storage patterns

permanent/transient/temporary tables, External/Iceberg Tables; leverage zero-copy cloning for dev/test.

Implement security and governance

RBAC, tag-based policies, column masking/row access, SSO/SAML/OAuth, network policies/PrivateLink, KMS integration.

• Monitor and alert using ACCOUNT_USAGE, INFORMATION_SCHEMA, Event Tables; integrate with CloudWatch/Slack/PagerDuty; define SLAs/SLOs.

Deliver DR/backup strategies

Time Travel, Fail-safe, cross-region replication, and failover/failback.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in database engineering/development; 3+ years hands-on, production Snowflake at scale.
• 2+ years as a cloud database engineer; 2+ years in public cloud (AWS preferred).

Expert Snowflake performance engineering

profiling, pruning effectiveness, clustering, Search Optimization, Dynamic Tables, Streams & Tasks.

Proven AWS integration

S3, IAM/KMS, VPC/PrivateLink, CloudWatch, Lambda/events.

• Strong SQL and Python; Snowpark experience preferred.

Security/compliance

RBAC, masking/row policies, object tagging, SSO/SAML/OAuth/key-pair auth; familiarity with Business Critical controls.

DevOps/IaC and automation

Git, CI/CD, Terraform; scripting with bash/Python, SnowSQL/SnowCLI.

• Monitoring/observability at scale; excellent communication, analytical problem-solving, and rigorous documentation.

Nice to Have

Snowflake Cortex AI

embeddings, vector search, LLM inference and governance.

• Unistore/Hybrid Tables for operational patterns.
• External/Iceberg Tables and data sharing/Marketplace.
• Orchestration/ELT tools (dbt, Airflow, Fivetran).
• Cross-cloud/region DR experience; SnowPro and AWS certifications.

Working Place

Newport Beach, California, United States

Company

ESR Healthcare

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