Snowflake Data Architect / Engineer with DevOps Skills

Role: AWS Snowflake Data Architect / Engineer with DevOps Skills

Location: Washington DC / Virginia/ Maryland (Hybrid Onsite)

Duration: Long Term Contract

Roles and responsibilities

• Strong AWS and Snowflake Data Architect/Engineer with good experience of Deployment automation and DevOps in Snowflake and AWS eco system.
• Design, development & implementation of DevOps and deployment pipelines using CI/CD and IaC tools and frameworks in Snowflake and AWS eco system.
• Set up tools and required infrastructure across various services such Snowflake, AWS, SnapLogic and Alation.
• Monitor data product roadmaps for different providers and components and recommend enhancements according to product updates.
• Ability to architect and engineer timebound sandboxes for PoC and innovation.
• Define test, release, update, and support processes for operation of data platform infrastructure.
• Monitor development processes for adherence to standards.
• Deploy and maintain cybersecurity measures, vulnerability assessment & risk management, i.e. Snowflake dashboards for risk & audit, code vulnerability scanning tools like Snyk, etc.
• Perform root cause analysis of production errors and resolve technical issues.
• Mentor and guide other developers in best practices and deployment processes.
• Perform coaching, peer reviews and brown bags.

Preferred Skills

• Hands on experience in AWS & Snowflake for deployment and CI/CD tools and frameworks.
• Advise customer for inputs on Data & CI/CD tools, frameworks and processes.
• Good understanding of tradeoffs of leveraging various components for CI/CD & IaC in Snowflake and AWS eco system.
• Strong experience with various open source tools and frameworks for CI/CD & IaC.
• Experience setting up complex build pipelines with approvals, version tagging, readable deployment plans and artifacts.
• 5 years of experience in Snowflake & AWS architecture advisory and implementation
• 3 years of experience in automating infrastructure setup and application deployment
• 3 years of setting up and using AWS components EMR, EC2, Lambda, ECR, ELB, Route53, S3.
• Strong Experience with python, Terraform, YAML, JSON, TOML, SnowSQL, Flyway, preferred.
• Some experience with containers and orchestration utilizing Docker or ECS preferred.
• Experience with Databricks and Databricks Terraform preferred.

Education/Certifications:

One of the following certifications preferred:

• Snowflake SnowPro Core/Advanced Architect
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer,
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect,
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator