PanAgora Asset Management · 3 days ago
Snowflake Platform DevOps Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$106K/yr - $149K/yr
5+ years expPanAgora Asset Management is committed to transforming financial lives through a flexible work environment and a focus on purpose and well-being. The Snowflake Platform DevOps Engineer will be responsible for the reliability, security, and cost efficiency of the Snowflake platform, designing and automating operations to support product and analytics teams in delivering data products confidently.
FinanceFinancial Services
No H1B
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
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
Benefits
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.
Company
PanAgora Asset Management
PanAgora Asset Management is a quantitative investment manager whose proprietary approach is designed to capitalize on inefficiencies across market cycles and to deliver relative and absolute returns through distinct and innovative equity, multi-asset and risk premia strategies.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Eric Hevering Sorensen
CEO
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