Snowflake Infrastructure Specialist in London

Snowflake Infrastructure Specialist

7/8-month contract - Inside IR35 - up to £550 per day

London based - hybrid working - 2 days a week on site

Insurance sector

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Snowflake Infrastructure Specialist to support our Infrastructure Delivery team on a contract basis. This role will be heavily focused on the infrastructure and platform engineering aspects of Snowflake, with an emphasis on automation, security, and scalable deployment practices. The successful candidate will work closely with platform, DevOps, and data engineering teams to ensure a robust, secure, and fully automated Snowflake environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage Snowflake infrastructure with a strong focus on security, scalability, and automation.
  * Implement and manage Snowflake RBAC (Role-Based Access Control), including roles, users, warehouses, and database-level security.
  * Automate deployment and management of Snowflake database objects (databases, schemas, roles, warehouses, grants).
  * Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Snowflake infrastructure and object deployments.
  * Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform for Snowflake resources.
  * Collaborate with DevOps and platform teams to integrate Snowflake deployments into enterprise CI/CD standards.
  * Ensure compliance with organisational security, audit, and governance requirements.
  * Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and deployment-related issues within Snowflake.
  * Provide documentation and knowledge transfer to internal teams.

Required Skills and Experience

• Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake, specifically from an infrastructure and platform engineering perspective.
  * Proven experience implementing and managing Snowflake RBAC models.
  * Solid experience using Terraform for provisioning and managing Snowflake resources.
  * Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar).
  * Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code, automation, and DevOps best practices.
  * Experience deploying Snowflake database objects in a controlled and automated manner.
  * Good understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) in relation to Snowflake deployments.
  * Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

Desirable Skills

• Experience working within regulated or highly governed environments.
  * Exposure to data platform operations or data engineering teams.
  * Familiarity with release management and change control processes.
  * Prior experience working in large-scale enterprise environments.

Disclaimer

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.