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Snowflake’s Support team is expanding! We are looking for a Senior Cloud Support Engineer who likes working with data and solving a wide variety of issues utilizing their technical experience having worked on a variety of operating systems, database technologies, big data, data integration, connectors, and networking.
Snowflake Support is committed to providing high-quality resolutions to help deliver data-driven business insights and results. We are a team of subject matter experts collectively working toward our customers’ success. We form partnerships with customers by listening, learning, and building connections.
Snowflake’s values are key to our approach and success in delivering world-class Support. Putting customers first, acting with integrity, owning initiative and accountability, and getting it done are Snowflake's core values, which are reflected in everything we do.
As a Senior Cloud Support Engineer, your role is to delight our customers with your passion and knowledge of Snowflake Data Warehouse. Customers will look to you for technical guidance and expert advice with regard to their effective and optimal use of Snowflake. You will be the voice of the customer regarding product feedback and improvements for Snowflake’s product and engineering teams. You will play an integral role in building knowledge within the team and be part of strategic initiatives for organizational and process improvements.
Based on business needs, you may be assigned to work with one or more Snowflake Priority Support customers. You will develop a strong understanding of the customer’s use case and how they leverage the Snowflake platform. You will deliver exceptional service, enabling them to achieve the highest levels of continuity and performance from their Snowflake implementation.
Ideally, you have worked in a 24x7 environment, handled technical case escalations and incident management, worked in technical support for an RDBMS, been on-call during weekends, and are familiar with database release management.
Drive technical solutions to complex problems providing in-depth analysis and guidance to Snowflake customers and partners using the following methods of communication: email, web, and phone
Adhere to response and resolution SLAs and escalation processes to ensure fast resolution of customer issues that exceed expectations
Demonstrate good problem-solving skills and be process-oriented
Utilize the Snowflake environment, connectors, 3rd party partner software, and tools to investigate issues
Document known solutions to the internal and external knowledge base
Report well-documented bugs and feature requests arising from customer-submitted requests
Partner with engineering teams in prioritizing and resolving customer requests
Participate in a variety of Support initiatives
Provide support coverage during holidays and weekends based on business needs
Bachelor’s. or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent discipline.
5+ years experience in a Technical Support environment or a similar technical function in a customer-facing role
Experience with the major public cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP
Good understanding data sharing features, including secure views, shares, and data replication in Snowflake or any other vendors
Experience with IAM and Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC)
Experience writing, troubleshooting, and debugging basic SQL queries
Experience in troubleshooting platforms that support marketplace functions
Sound understanding of data governance capabilities - Data Quality Monitoring, Data Privacy, Row/Column Security Policy, Data Lineage and Dependencies
Experience in security concepts such as OAuth, SAML, SSO, MFA, encryption
Experienced in troubleshooting connectivity issues using a variety of diagnostic tools and methods
Experience working with networking technologies, and protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, load balancers, proxies, and firewalls
Experience with Authentication, Authorization, and Encryption Techniques
Cloud authentication/access policies
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), X.509 certificates, SSL/TLS
AWS Key Management Service, MSFT Key Vault, GCP KMS
SCIM provisioning and Rest API Calls (e.g. Post, Get, Patch, etc.)
IDP (Okta, PingFederate, OneLogin, ADFS, Azure AD (Entra ID), etc.)
Public cloud certification on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud (GCP)
Scripting/coding experience in any of the following: Python, Java, .Net, NodeJS, R
Security-related certifications such as AWS Certified Security - Specialty, CISM, CISSP, CSSP, CCSK, Security+ CCNA
Experience in configuring and troubleshooting drivers such as ODBC, JDBC
Participate in pager duty rotations during nights, weekends, and holidays
Ability to work the 4th/night shift which typically starts from 10 pm IST
Applicants should be flexible with schedule changes to meet business needs
Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
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