ProBridge - Junior Snowflake Database Administrator in Tysons, Virginia at Trellance LLC

Location & Work Arrangement

Preferred Locations: San Antonio, TX or Tysons, VAWork Arrangement: Hybrid — 3 days in the office and 2 days remote per week

Established as a separate entity in 2025, ProBridge is a wholly owned subsidiary of Trellance. It evolved from Trellance’s Talent Line of Solutions, leveraging deep industry experience to provide organizations with access to highly skilled technology and finance professionals. ProBridge delivers both expert resources and customized solutions to our clients, helping scale teams, optimizing operations, and meeting their business objectives.

Summary

The Junior Snowflake DBA will support the administration, performance, security, monitoring, and day-to-day operation of enterprise Snowflake environments. The role is suited for a database professional with 2-3 years of relevant experience who can work with data engineering, BI, analytics, security, and cloud teams to maintain a reliable, secure, and cost-efficient Snowflake platform.

Responsibilities

Required Qualifications

Skill Area

Expected Capability

Snowflake Platform

Hands-on knowledge of databases, schemas, tables, views, stages, virtual warehouses, resource monitors, and Snowflake administration.

SQL

Strong SQL skills, including joins, CTEs, window functions, query plans, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.

Security & Access

Understanding of Snowflake RBAC, users, roles, grants, object ownership, network/security concepts, and least-privilege access.

Performance & Cost

Experience monitoring query history, warehouse performance, credit consumption, caching, clustering concepts, and workload optimization.

Data Loading

Knowledge of COPY INTO, internal/external stages, file formats, Snowpipe, streams, tasks, and common ingestion patterns.

Data Protection

Working understanding of Time Travel, zero-copy cloning, Fail-safe, secure data sharing, and recovery concepts.

Cloud Fundamentals

Exposure to AWS storage, networking, identity, and security concepts used with Snowflake.

Integration

Familiarity with ETL/ELT and BI tools such as dbt ,Azure Data Factory, Power BI, or Tableau.

Scripting & Automation

Basic Python, PowerShell, Bash, or Snowflake scripting experience for operational automation is preferred.

Monitoring

Ability to use Snowflake ACCOUNT_USAGE / INFORMATION_SCHEMA views and monitoring dashboards to identify operational issues.

Preferred Qualifications

Professional & Consulting Skills