Snowflake and Data Operations Support Associate at West Coast Consulting
Westbrook
$93,600–$104,000
Jul 7, 2026
Westbrook
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A contract role focused on day-to-day operational support of enterprise Snowflake environments, covering user access provisioning, cost and usage monitoring, RBAC management, deployments from GitHub, and production incident response. The work also involves supporting ETL/ELT pipelines, maintaining monitoring dashboards, and contributing to Terraform-based automation. Suited to someone with 2–3 years of IT experience and intermediate Snowflake knowledge who can work independently from the outset.
Mid level · 2+ years · Portland-South Portland, ME · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 4 people in the Portland-South Portland, ME area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database administrators). range 2–6
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $85,122 (middle half $64,508–$108,546).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The role is explicitly a contract engagement; duration is unspecified but the posting emphasizes availability for the 'full duration of the contract assignment' and immediate start.
Westbrook, ME is a suburb of Portland, ME — mapped to the Portland-South Portland, ME CBSA.
The posting is hybrid (not fully remote), requiring on-site presence in Westbrook, ME.
The required experience range is 2–3 years; the overall years minimum is set to 2 (the lower bound).
AWS, Apache Airflow (MWAA), Oracle, MySQL, Terraform, Git, Datadog, Informatica, and Alation all appear together in the 'Our stack' narrative section and again under 'What We Are Looking For' as 'Exposure to tools and technologies such as…' — the 'such as' framing and the stack-listing context make these preferred rather than hard gates, with the exception of AWS, Git, and Python which are also called out individually with firmer language ('Basic understanding of AWS cloud services', 'Experience with Git/GitHub', 'Familiarity with Linux and Python scripting') in the requirements block.
Terraform appears in both the stack narrative and the 'Nice to Have' section ('Knowledge of data pipeline orchestration…', 'Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform or similar tools'), so it is treated as preferred.
Snowflake Administrator certification is listed under 'Nice to Have' and is preferred.
The SOC classification is a close call between 15-1242 (Database Administrators — operational support, access management, monitoring) and 15-1243 (Database Architects — pipeline/warehouse building). The day-to-day work is primarily Tier 1 operational support, access provisioning, cost monitoring, and incident response rather than building pipelines or data models, which favors 15-1242.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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