Principal System Engineer
Boehringer Ingelheim1 month ago
Argentina (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Administer, operate, secure, and continuously improve the enterprise Snowflake platform and its integrated automations.
- Manage Snowflake roles, access controls, authentication, security, and governance controls.
- Monitor platform health, performance, availability, observability, and cost efficiency.
- Design and implement automation for provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and operational processes.
- Troubleshoot and resolve Snowflake platform incidents, security issues, and performance problems.
- Collaborate with data engineering teams to optimize workloads, data pipelines, and data consumption patterns.
- Support CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code practices for platform deployment and management.
- Contribute to platform architecture, roadmap activities, standards, documentation, and best-practice recommendations for Snowflake and AWS.
- Support event-driven and data integration patterns for scalable data movement.
- Drive continuous platform improvements, automation initiatives, and engineering best practices.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience administering and operating Snowflake in enterprise environments.
- Deep understanding of Snowflake architecture, including virtual warehouses, storage and compute architecture, resource monitors, security and RBAC, data sharing, streams and tasks, Snowpipe, performance optimization, and cost management.
- Experience implementing Snowflake security and governance controls and troubleshooting platform, security, and performance issues.
- Strong knowledge of AWS cloud services and architecture, including IAM roles and policies, Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, API Gateway, and ECS.
- Experience integrating Snowflake with cloud-native services and understanding cloud security principles and platform operations.
- Strong Python, Java, and SQL development skills with experience building automation and operational tooling.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and platform automation, plus familiarity with event-driven and streaming architectures.
- Understanding of software engineering practices including Git, code reviews, testing, and maintainable design.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, ownership, and continuous-improvement skills.
- Fluent written and spoken English.
- Snowflake certification is highly desirable.
About Boehringer Ingelheim
Boehringer Ingelheim develops and manufactures prescription medicines for humans and animal health products, and provides biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing services. The family-owned company was founded in 1885 and is headquartered in Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany. Its portfolio spans areas such as cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, respiratory disorders, oncology, and vaccines for livestock and companion animals, with products marketed globally.