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Senior Snowflake Platform DevOps EngineerEmpower Retirement • Greenwood Village, CO, United States
Senior Snowflake Platform DevOps Engineer

Senior Snowflake Platform DevOps Engineer

Empower Retirement • Greenwood Village, CO, United States
3 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Our vision for the future is based on the idea that transforming financial lives starts by giving our people the freedom to transform their own. We have a flexible work environment, and fluid career paths. We not only encourage but celebrate internal mobility. We also recognize the importance of purpose, well-being, and work-life balance. Within Empower and our communities, we work hard to create a welcoming and inclusive environment, and our associates dedicate thousands of hours to volunteering for causes that matter most to them.

Chart your own path and grow your career while helping more customers achieve financial freedom. Empower Yourself.

  • Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time, including CPT / OPT.

The Snowflake Platform DevOps Engineer will own the reliability, security, and cost efficiency of our Snowflake on AWS estate. You will design and automate the platform's day-to-day operations, environments, CI / CD, observability, access, networking, and data movement so product and analytics teams can ship governed, performant data products with confidence. You will collaborate across Data Engineering, InfoSec, and Business / Analytics to keep the platform compliant, resilient, and fast.

What you will do :

  • Lead the design and implementation of robust and secure Snowflake platforms and pipelines, spanning a wide range of technologies and complexity
  • Stand up and manage Snowflake accounts / environments (dev / test / prod), databases, schemas, virtual warehouses, and resource monitors; enable auto-suspend / auto-resume and multi-cluster where needed
  • Implement and operate ingestion and orchestration patterns using Streams / Tasks, Snowpipe / Kafka Connector, and external stages (S3)
  • Enforce security, compliance, and access governance, including RBAC role hierarchies, tag-based masking, row access policies, network policies, and session parameters (SSO / SCIM with Okta / Entra ID)
  • Manage Snowflake objects and configurations as code (Terraform Snowflake provider and / or Snowflake CLI) and build Git-based promotion workflows with pre-merge checks (grant diffs, policy linting, contract tests)
  • Build observability dashboards and alerts for utilization, query performance, task / pipe health, failures, and data freshness / volume anomalies; tune performance and drive SLOs for latency, concurrency, and reliability
  • Implement cost optimization guardrails including warehouse rightsizing, auto-suspend targets, query tagging, and chargeback / showback with unit-economics KPIs and variance reviews
  • Operate secure integrations with AWS (S3, IAM / KMS, PrivateLink / VPC endpoints), catalogs (Collibra), and BI tools (Tableau / Qlik / BOBJ)
  • Provide Level-3 support, lead incident response and postmortems with clear RCAs and fixes, and maintain / validate resiliency strategies and runbooks (including game days)
  • Work independently on assignments in a GitOps-driven environment, collaborating with development teams to automate processes and increase productivity
  • What you will bring

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • At least 5 years of experience in platform or systems engineering, including designing, building, and operating large-scale applications
  • 3+ years of hands-on Snowflake administration operating in cloud environments (AWS preferred)
  • Snowflake expertise across RBAC design, masking and row access policies, object tags, Streams / Tasks, Snowpipe / Kafka Connector, search optimization, materialized views, and replication / failover
  • Expert understanding of AWS infrastructure components, including EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, and others
  • Production experience managing Infrastructure as Code frameworks such as Terraform and CloudFormation
  • Proficiency with CI / CD tooling (GitHub and / or Azure DevOps), Git-based workflows, SQL, and one scripting language (Python, Go, Bash, or shell) for automation
  • Strong grasp of Internet and cloud fundamentals (DNS, TLS, routing, SSH, HTTP / S), Linux / Windows administration basics, and IAM / KMS
  • Expert knowledge in one or more DevOps disciplines such as code, CI, CD, operations, infrastructure, etc.
  • AWS, Kubernetes, or relevant certifications
  • What will set you apart :

  • Production experience with Kubernetes clusters, with EKS and Istio service mesh experience preferred
  • Experience with observability stacks (CloudWatch, Datadog, Splunk), including Snowflake log exports and ACCOUNT_USAGE views
  • Experience with BI / admin and data ecosystem integrations, including Tableau / Qlik / BOBJ, SAS / Alteryx connectivity to Snowflake, and Collibra integration for metadata / tag propagation
  • Experience building high-availability and cost-efficient data platforms, including incident management and on-call rotations
  • Customer-service mindset with crisp written and verbal communication, including explaining technical issues to non-technical partners
  • Bias for automation and documentation, with comfort managing multiple priorities with accuracy and urgency
  • This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications of the job. The employer has the right to revise this job description at any time. You will be evaluated in part based on your performance of the responsibilities and / or tasks listed in this job description. You may be required perform other duties that are not included on this job description. The job description is not a contract for employment, and either you or the employer may terminate employment at any time, for any reason.

    What we offer you

    We offer an array of diverse and inclusive benefits regardless of where you are in your career. We believe that providing our employees with the means to lead healthy balanced lives results in the best possible work performance.

  • Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
  • Retirement savings - 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup
  • Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250 / year
  • Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans
  • Generous paid time off upon hire - including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year
  • Paid volunteer time - 16 hours per calendar year
  • Leave of absence programs - including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)
  • Business Resource Groups (BRGs) - BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all.
  • Base Salary Range

    $105,700.00 - $149,275.00

    The salary range above shows the typical minimum to maximum base salary range for this position in the location listed. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance. Actual compensation offered may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and / or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer.

    Equal opportunity employer

  • Drug-free workplace
  • We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age (40 and over), race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, religion, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable state or local law.

  • For remote and hybrid positions you will be required to provide reliable high-speed internet with a wired connection as well as a place in your home to work with limited disruption. You must have reliable connectivity from an internet service provider that is fiber, cable or DSL internet. Other necessary computer equipment, will be provided. You may be required to work in the office if you do not have an adequate home work environment and the required internet connection.
  • Job Posting End Date at 12 : 01 am on :

    01-31-2026

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