Snowflake DevOps Engineer

Robert Half Technology are assisting a market leading insurance organisation to recruit a Snowflake DevOps Engineer on an 6 month contract basis. London based - hybrid working

Role

Core Responsibilities

The combined role demands expertise in both traditional database administration and modern DevOps principles:

• Security and Compliance: Implementing and managing security measures like role-based access control (RBAC), user authentication (SSO, MFA), data encryption, and data masking to enforce security policies and compliance standards.
• Automation and CI/CD: Automating routine administrative tasks and building/maintaining CI/CD pipelines (using tools like Azure DevOps, or ) for reliable and automated deployment of Snowflake SQL scripts and stored procedures.
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Setting up and managing monitoring and alerting systems to track platform health and performance, and serving as the first point of contact for troubleshooting and resolving pipeline issues and operational incidents. Keeping artefactory certificates updated and solving snyk scanner/SonarQube issues. Understand networking issues is also a plus.
• Collaboration: Acting as a liaison between data engineering and networking teams to solve issues in the pipeline
• Platform Administration: Administering the Snowflake platform across different environments (development, test, production), including managing accounts, warehouses, databases, schemas, and other database objects. Managing secrets, RBAC (role hierarchy), Database change management and reporting role needs.
• Performance and Cost Optimisation: Monitoring system performance, optimising query performance, managing warehouse sizes, and proactively controlling credit usage and storage costs to ensure efficiency.

Technologies

The Snowflake DevOps Engineer will have experience with the following:

• Azure DevOps (or any other CI/CD pipeline technology)
• SQL
• Snowflake
• DBT
• DCM tech

Company

• Market leading insurance organisation
• global presence with offices in london
• hybrid working

Salary & Benefits

company, depending on experience

The salary range/rates of pay is dependent upon your experience, qualifications or training.

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