Senior DataOps Engineer (AWS & Security Focused)
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India
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The listing
We are seeking a security-minded and growth-oriented Senior DataOps Engineer with 6+ years of experience to lead the automation, optimization, and securing of our AWS data ecosystem.
This role is tailor-made for a curious engineer who runs toward complex challenges rather than away from them. You will design next-generation, secure cloud data infrastructure while continuously exploring and learning new AWS services and DevSecOps methodologies to keep our data stack ahead of the curve.
Job title: Senior DataOps Engineer (AWS & Security Focused)
Department: Engineering / Data Engineering
Workplace type: Remote
Experience: 6-12 years
Employment type: Full-time
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
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.
Soft Skills & Cultural Fit
- Curious Explorer: Passionate about diving into the latest AWS whitepapers, learning new tooling, and experimenting with proof-of-concepts.
- Security First Mindset: Naturally incorporates risk management and data privacy principles into every line of code and infrastructure design.
- Challenged Driven: Thrives on debugging ambiguous system failures, performance tuning massive datasets, and solving untraditional cloud architecture problems.
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