Snowflake

Principal Security Architect, Applied Field Engineering

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5 hours ago
Sydney, Australia or Melbourne, AustraliaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Advise current and prospective customers and partners as a security evangelist, architect, and hands-on subject matter expert.
  • Scope security feature enhancements and collaborate with Product Management to improve Snowflake’s security capabilities.
  • Build demos and prototypes using Snowflake, cloud provider services, integrated solutions, and external security tools.
  • Create security and networking reference architectures, security best practices, and hardening guides for customer audiences.
  • Collaborate with Sales, Product, Engineering, Marketing, Support, and Field CTO stakeholders to drive security feature adoption.
  • Support Snowflake’s AI, Data Cloud, Security DataLake, Data Marketplace, and related marketing and awareness initiatives.
  • Present security concepts and industry knowledge through webinars, conferences, trade shows, events, and other technical communities.
  • Work with customers and colleagues across APJ time zones and communicate with both executive and technical audiences.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of industry, customer-facing, and hands-on implementation experience focused on data concepts, privacy, governance, networking, information security, and security technologies.
  • Strong understanding of RBAC, OAuth, identity and access management, encryption, and data governance.
  • Deep hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform among AWS, Azure, or GCP, including its security, encryption, data, and networking technologies.
  • Ability to configure cloud service provider environments, build prototypes, and test Snowflake use cases and integrations.
  • Knowledge of NIST, CIS, OWASP, and MITRE ATT&CK security frameworks and risk-assessment-centered control design.
  • Strong networking knowledge covering TCP/IP, IP routing, DNS, proxies, NAT, firewalls, TLS, and private cloud networking.
  • Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, and identity governance using SAML, OAuth, SCIM, and RBAC.
  • Experience with large-scale infrastructure-as-a-service platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
  • Knowledge of ANSI SQL-compliant databases or data warehousing is preferred.
  • AWS, Azure, or GCP security or networking specialty certification is a plus.
  • Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal, collaborative, presentation, and whiteboarding skills, including communication with technical and nontechnical audiences.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Management Systems, or a related field is required; a master’s degree is preferred.
  • Understanding of cultural diversity across the Asia Pacific Japan region and flexibility to work across multiple APJ time zones.

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Solutions Engineering
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About Snowflake

10,000+ employees

Snowflake builds a cloud-native data platform used by enterprises to store, integrate, share, and analyze data across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Its core products span data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, and governed data sharing, sold via consumption-based subscriptions. Founded in 2012 and publicly traded on the NYSE (SNOW) following a 2020 IPO, Snowflake supports analytics and data application workloads across industries.

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