Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Cvent is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider with more than 5,800 employees and ~24,000 customers worldwide, including 53% of the Fortune 500. Founded in 1999, Cvent delivers a comprehensive event marketing and management platform for marketers and event professionals and offers software solutions to hotels, special event venues, and destinations to help them grow their group/MICE and corporate travel business. Our technology brings millions of people together at events around the world. In short, we’re transforming the meetings and events industry through innovative technology that powers the human connection. The DNA of Cvent is our people, and our culture has an emphasis on fostering intrapreneurship – a system that encourages Cventers to think and act like individual entrepreneurs and empowers them to take action, embrace risk, and make decisions as if they had founded the company themselves. At Cvent, we value the diverse perspectives that each individual brings. Whether working with a team of colleagues or with clients, we ensure that we foster a culture that celebrates differences and builds on shared connections.

About the role:

Must have skills :

• Experience with SDLC methodologies (preferably Agile software development methodology).
• Experience with build tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Harness etc
• Experience on implementing and owning CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with software development – Knowledge of Java/Python/Ruby is a must. Preferably good understanding of Object-Oriented Programming concepts.
• Exposure to managing AWS services / operational knowledge of managing applications in AWS
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible or equivalent
• Solid Windows and Linux administration skills.
• Working with APM, monitoring, and logging tools (New Relic, DataDog, Splunk)
• Experience in managing 3 tier application stacks / Incident response
• Exposure to containerization concepts - docker, ECS, EKS, Kubernetes
• Working experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, couchbase, postgres etc
• Self-motivation and the ability to work under minimal supervision is must.

Good to Have skills :

• F5 load balancing concepts
• Basic understanding of observability & SLIs/SLOs
• Message Queues (RabbitMQ).
• Understanding of basic networking concepts
• Experience with package managers such as nexus, artifactory or equivalent
• Good communication skills
• People management experience