Cloud Platform Administrator

Are you passionate about building, scaling, and optimizing modern cloud data platforms? We’re looking for an experienced Database Administrator / Cloud Data Platform Administrator with 5+ years of experience to take ownership of our enterprise data platforms—with a focus on Snowflake, Databricks, and AWS .

In this role, you will be the backbone of our data ecosystem. You’ll partner closely with Data Engineering, Architecture, Security, and Analytics teams to ensure our platforms are high-performing, cost-efficient, resilient, and secure. If you thrive on optimizing complex data workloads, automating operational workflows, and solving mission-critical platform challenges, we’d love to meet you.

What You’ll Do

• Platform Administration & Reliability: Manage, support, and scale our production Databricks and Snowflake environments to guarantee high availability and resilience.
• Performance & Cost Optimization: Proactively monitor and fine-tune Snowflake warehouses and Databricks clusters to ensure maximum performance and smart cost utilization.
• Security & Governance: Architect and enforce security baselines, Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC), SSO, and data compliance standards across environments.
• Automation & CI/CD: Automate routine operational and platform maintenance tasks using Python, SQL, REST APIs, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Support deployment pipelines and change management.
• Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity: Establish and maintain robust backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with data engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to troubleshoot complex pipeline bottlenecks and operationalize new data platform capabilities.
• Standards & Documentation: Author clear operational procedures, architectural standards, and playbooks.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience: 5+ years of hands-on experience in database administration, cloud data platform engineering, or a related platform support role.
• Core Tech Stack: Proven experience administering both Snowflake and Databricks in production environments.
• Cloud Expertise: Solid experience working with major cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS (or Azure / GCP).
• Optimization Chops: Strong SQL expertise with a track record of tuning query performance, managing compute resources, and troubleshooting data pipelines.
• Automation & Scripting: Practical experience with Python scripting, REST APIs, automation tooling, and CI/CD workflows.
• Platform Security: Deep understanding of enterprise security practices, access controls (RBAC), data governance, and compliance.
• Mindset & Communication: A sharp problem-solver who communicates clearly, works well across teams, and documents thoroughly.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.

Bonus Points If You Have

• Certifications: Snowflake SnowPro Core/Advanced and/or Databricks Certified Associate/Professional.
• Modern Lakehouse Tech: Hands-on exposure to Delta Lake, Apache Spark, Apache Iceberg, or modern lakehouse architectures.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Experience managing data platform infrastructure via Terraform.

The base salary for this position at the time of this posting may range from $70k to $140k. Individual compensation varies based on job related factors, including business needs, experience, level of responsibility and qualifications.