Responsibilities
- Set technical direction for scaling, securing, and operating Cvent platforms and mentor other engineers.
- Enable multidisciplinary teams, solve complex development, automation, operational, and business-process problems, and champion engineering standards.
- Ensure the scalability, performance, and resilience of security-related systems and processes.
- Partner with product development, Information Security, Cloud Automation, and SRE teams to identify and resolve security concerns.
- Develop build, test, and deployment automation targeting on-premises environments and multiple AWS regions.
- Lead incident management as Incident Commander, coordinate resolution, drive root-cause analysis, and produce incident summaries.
- Manage observability, CI/CD, change rollouts, rollback plans, disaster recovery, and blameless postmortems.
- Contribute to open-source projects and identify recurring problems and process anti-patterns.
Requirements
- 10 to 15 years of experience in SRE, DevSecOps, or DevOps, including significant time in a lead, staff, or principal role.
- Proven experience applying AI, automation, and ML to improve reliability, operational efficiency, or developer productivity.
- Deep AWS experience across multi-account, multi-region, and high-traffic environments, with distributed-systems and infrastructure-as-code expertise.
- Experience with CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform and strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, PR-based deployment workflows, and pipeline troubleshooting.
- Fluency in at least one of Python, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Ruby, or Bash, plus solid Linux and networking fundamentals.
- Experience with APM, monitoring, and logging tools such as Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, Prometheus, and Grafana.
- Strong incident management, observability, RCA, blameless postmortem, change management, communication, alignment-building, and mentoring skills.
- Hands-on AWS WAF experience is strongly preferred, including rule authoring, rate-based rules, Bot Control integration, rule-group management, and WebACL sharing strategies.
- Experience with AWS Shield Advanced, DDoS protection, CloudFront, bot mitigation, token-based traffic classification, JA4+ASN fingerprinting, and third-party vendors such as Datadome is preferred.
- Additional preferred experience includes disaster recovery, multi-region failover, API Gateways, ALBs, Docker, ECS, EKS, Kubernetes, three-tier application stacks, and risk assessment and management.
Benefits
- The role is open in Bangalore and Gurgaon.
- The position offers work with a dynamic, collaborative, highly distributed, multidisciplinary team and opportunities to contribute to open-source projects.
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About Cvent
Join #CventNation! www.cvent.com/careers What We Do: Cvent is a global market-leading meetings, events, & hospitality technology provider. Our Mission: To bring people together, power the human connection and transform the meetings & events industry through innovative technology. Who We Are: With 5,500+ employees & 30,000 customers, we're one of the largest event technology companies in the world, & we're always looking for the next generation of Cventers to join #CventNation! Cvent is consistently recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post, Washington Business Journal, & certified as a Great Place to Work in the US, UK, & India, among other regional & international accolades. **Career Fraud Alert: In today's digital-first world, fraudulent job offers and hiring manager impersonations, often via social media or chat/messaging apps, continue to increase. To protect yourself, verify all communications come from a legitimate Cvent email (name@cvent.com) and be cautious of requests for personal information, unsolicited messages, and offers via chat or social media. If you suspect fraud, contact HRHelp@cvent.com immediately and apply for positions directly through our careers site at https://careers.cvent.com. Your safety and security are our priority.