Snowflake Platform Administrator London, England
Job description
The big question: why on earth should a Tech professional like you work for a 150-year-old retail chain? Because we’re on a journey. Changing the way we operate. Learning to think nimble. Giving our teams the time and freedom they need to push boundaries. To create amazing systems and technologies. To give our colleagues and our customers even more incredible experiences.
At Data Tech we’re unlocking petabytes of untapped potential. We have thousands of shops, hundreds of thousands of colleagues, and millions of customers. We’re on a mission to use our data to enable business decisions that can’t be made anywhere else. We want the revolution of Gutenberg, the freedom of information, the spread of ideas, the standardisation of information.
As a Snowflake Platform Administrator, a typical day might look like:
- Increasing our agility by building systems to automate our management of the Snowflake Data Platform, by applying an “Automate Everything” mindset
- Continuously improving the Snowflake database environment administration
- Supporting the broader engineering community with their use of our Snowflake Data Platform
- Working with teams to troubleshooting issues with the Data Platform
- Work on the critical incidents and user service requests and responsible for SLA adherence, tracking and reporting.
- Analyse our use of the Data Platform, suggesting and implementing improvements to our ways of working, standards and security
- Provide snowflake expertise as part of a cross functional software delivery team(s)
- Creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for our automation products and tooling
- Designing Cloud Native solutions, using best practices and working to continually improve those solutions
- Communicating & sharing technical decisions with non-technical team members and stakeholders.
- Working closely with Snowflake themselves, their RSAs and priority support teams
- Working with Agile delivery teams in a fast-paced, DevOps environment
- Mentoring junior engineers
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- Database administration knowledge in Snowflake, or another database platform
- Extensive experience in setting up, deploying and maintaining snowflake cloud platform and administration
- Experience in User (on/off boarding), Access (grant/revoke) management, backup(clone) and restore activities
- Experience in SnowSQL
- Be able to identify performance bottlenecks, tune Query and Performance, Triage and resolve the same.
- Clustering strategies
- Be able to generate and monitor the cost/credit consumption reports and take the effective measures for cost optimization
- Analyse and resolve platform related issues.
- Strong SQL Skills
- Production monitoring & alerting distributed applications at scale
- Knowledgeable on AWS or other cloud platform
- General understanding of Data Modelling Techniques
- Python programming and testing
- Github and Github Workflows
- Infrastructure as code
- Familiar with a well-architected framework and Serverless solutions
- Comfortable being part of a Data Engineering team and working alongside Engineers
In return you’ll get:
- Colleague discount across the multi-brands – Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat
- Holiday allowance
- Bonus scheme
- Pension plan
- Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more
Flexible working and job share conversations are encouraged. Across our multi-brands, we’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer that champions a diverse and inclusive culture. If you’re reading this, even if you’re not 100% sure you’re there with your experience, we’d still love to hear from you. If you’d like to find out more head to Sainsbury's Tech
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