Airflow Architect — Infrastructure Automation & Orchestration

Location: Chennai
Experience: 8–10 Years
Environment: On-Premise Data Centre & DR

About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Airflow Architect to design, build and own an enterprise-grade Apache Airflow platform across on-premise Data Centre and DR environments.
The primary focus is infrastructure and operations automation, with data pipelines as a secondary workload.
You will be the technical authority for Airflow, owning architecture, HA/DR, security, performance, upgrades and the engineering team operating the platform.

Qualifications
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Platform
Design and implement highly available Airflow on-premise.
Architect multi-scheduler, redundant web/API, Celery worker and RabbitMQ infrastructure.
Design and test DC/DR architecture, including RTO/RPO, failover and failback.
Establish Dev/UAT/Pre-Prod/Prod/DR environments.
Own Terraform/Ansible-based Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD for DAG deployment.




Integrate with LDAP/AD/SSO, Vault/CyberArk, PKI and enterprise storage/logging.

Infrastructure Automation
Build reusable Airflow workflows for:
OS/middleware patching and rollback
VM/server/container provisioning
Backup and restore validation
Certificate and credential rotation
Health checks and auto-remediation
Compliance and configuration-drift checks
DR drills and evidence collection
Access provisioning and recertification
Cross-system runbook automation
Develop custom Operators, Hooks, Sensors and Plugins integrating with Ansible, SSH/WinRM, REST APIs, network, storage, backup and monitoring systems.
Implement protected-automation controls such as approval gates, dry-runs, blast-radius limits, maintenance windows and audit trails.

MySQL Metadata Layer
Architect and operate MySQL 8.x for Airflow.
Experience with InnoDB, GTID, replication, InnoDB Cluster/Group Replication and PITR.
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