Senior Data Engineer

Mindera; Chennai; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Annual bonus

Udemy online training

Job summary

Mindera is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to shape scalable AWS-based data platforms in Chennai, India. You design and deploy data infra, secure the data lifecycle, and build automated pipelines. You will work across data engineering, analytics, and ML teams, contributing to reliable, high-performance data solutions.

The role emphasizes DevSecOps, modern cloud tech, and a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning within a lean, Agile environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience in DataOps, DevOps, or Data Engineering roles, with a minimum of 4 years in AWS ecosystem.
• Deep hands-on expertise with AWS data and infrastructure services: EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda, Terraform; EMR, Glue, Athena, Redshift, S3, Kinesis.
• Proficient in securing cloud environments using IAM, KMS, VPC, Secrets Manager, GuardDuty/CloudTrail.
• Strong experience building secure automated pipelines via GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline, and Docker/Kubernetes.
• Proficiency with orchestration engines (Airflow, MWAA, Step Functions) and tools like dbt.
• Advanced Python and SQL skills, securing relational and NoSQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable AWS-based data platforms.
• Embed data security guardrails across the data lifecycle and manage encryption and access controls.
• Build automated CI/CD pipelines for data infra and code deployments using IaC.
• Oversee data workflow orchestration and implement real-time security monitoring and auditing.
• Research and prototype emerging AWS services and open-source data tools to resolve bottlenecks.

Skills

AWS Data Infrastructure

CI/CD & Containers

Data Orchestration

Python

SQL

Kubernetes

dbt

Tools

Terraform

Airflow/MWAA

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

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.

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