Senior Data Engineer

Mindera; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Annual bonus

Udemy online training access

Job summary

Mindera is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering team in Bengaluru. You will design, build, and operate scalable AWS-based data platforms that power analytics, reporting and ML initiatives, while collaborating with product teams.

You will work with AWS services such as EC2, EKS, EMR, Redshift, Glue, S3 and Kinesis, along with Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Airflow, and dbt to create secure, automated pipelines and enforce governance and security across the data lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in DataOps, DevOps or Data Engineering with 4+ years on AWS.
• Hands-on with AWS data/services: EC2, EMR, S3, Redshift, Glue, Athena, Kinesis.
• Proficient in Python and SQL; securing relational and NoSQL databases.

Responsibilities

• AWS Data Infrastructure: design, deploy, and maintain scalable data platforms.
• Data Security & DevSecOps: embed security guardrails, manage encryption, access controls.
• Pipeline Automation (CI/CD): build and manage automated pipelines using IaC.
• Orchestration & Governance: oversee data workflows and real-time monitoring, auditing.
• R&D and Continuous Learning: prototype and implement emerging AWS services and tools.

Skills

DataOps/Data Eng experience

AWS ecosystem experience

Security best practices

Tools

EC2

EKS

ECS

Lambda

Terraform

EMR

Glue

Athena

Redshift

S3

Kinesis

IAM

KMS

VPC

Secrets Manager

GuardDuty/CloudTrail

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

CodePipeline

Docker

Kubernetes

Airflow/MWAA

dbt

Job description

Senior Data Engineer - Mindera

At Mindera, we build technology products that create meaningful business impact. We work with modern cloud technologies and encourage engineering ownership, collaboration, continuous learning, and self-organization.

Our Data Engineering teams build scalable, reliable, and high-performance data platforms that enable analytics, reporting, machine learning, and data-driven decision-making.

Requirements

What We're Looking For

Key Responsibilities

• AWS Data Infrastructure: Design, deploy, and maintain highly available and scalable data platforms utilizing AWS-native services
• Data Security & DevSecOps: Embed security guardrails directly into the data lifecycle. Manage encryption, data masking, network security, and secure access controls
• Pipeline Automation (CI/CD): Build and manage automated pipelines for data infrastructure and code deployments using infrastructure-as-code
• Orchestration & Governance: Oversee data workflow orchestration and implement real-time security monitoring, logging, and automated compliance auditing
• R&D and Continuous Learning: Proactively research, prototype, and implement emerging AWS services and open-source data tools to solve complex infrastructure bottlenecks

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Experience: 6+ years of professional experience in DataOps, DevOps, or Data Engineering roles, with a minimum of 4 years dedicated to the AWS ecosystem
• Core AWS Stack: Deep hands-on expertise with AWS data and infrastructure services:
  • Compute/Infra: EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda, Terraform
  • Data/Analytics: EMR, Glue, Athena, Redshift, S3, Kinesis
• AWS Cloud Security: Proficient in securing cloud environments using AWS IAM (least privilege), KMS (encryption at rest/in transit), VPC networking (PrivateLink, Security Groups), Secrets Manager, and AWS GuardDuty/CloudTrail for auditing
• CI/CD & Containers: Strong experience building secure automated pipelines via GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline, alongside Docker and Kubernetes
• Data Orchestration & Processing: Strong proficiency with orchestration engines (Apache Airflow/MWAA, Step Functions) and modern data tools (dbt)
• Coding & Databases: Advanced programming skills in Python and SQL, with a solid grasp of securing relational and NoSQL databases

Benefits

We offer

• Flexible working hours (self-managed)
• Annual bonus, subject to company performance
• Access to Udemy online training and opportunities to learn and grow within the role

At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love.

Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera.

We partner with our clients, to understand their products and deliver high-performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact on their users and businesses across the world.

You get to work with a bunch of great people, and the whole team owns the project together.

Our culture reflects our lean and self-organisation attitude.

We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication. We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.

Our offices are located:

Porto, Portugal | Aveiro, Portugal | Coimbra, Portugal | Leicester, UK | San Diego, USA | Chennai, India | Bengaluru, India