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Gurugram · On-site · 5-8 Yrs · 6 days ago
Software Development · 5001 to 10000 Employees · Tysons Corner, US
What We Do: Cvent is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider. The Cvent event marketing and management platform offers software solutions to event organizers and marketers for online event registration, venue selection, event marketing and management, virtual and onsite solutions, and attendee engagement. Cvent’s suite of products automate and simplify the event management process and maximize the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events. Hotels and venues use Cvent’s supplier and venue solutions to win more group and corporate travel business through Cvent’s sourcing platforms. Cvent solutions optimize the event management value chain and have enabled clients around the world to manage millions of meetings and events. Our Mission: To transform the meetings and events industry through technology that delivers live engagement across in-person, virtual and hybrid events. Why Meetings & Events: Organizations of almost every size, industry vertical and geography use events to connect with their employees, customers, members, students, or prospects. Why? Because events are where people connect, engage, interact, and build meaningful relationships. When we come together, barriers are broken, communities are strengthened, and we drive positive change. At Cvent, we are deeply dedicated to bringing people together and to power the human connection through our technology. Who We Are: With 4,800+ employees and 21,000+ customers, we're one of the largest event technology companies in the world. Our work is helping to connect millions of people around the world - whether in-person or virtually, and it’s because of our passionate Cventers that we've become an industry-leading technology provider. Cvent employees worldwide are encouraged to think and act like entrepreneurs (we call them intrapreneurs) to drive business and innovation, and 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, and certified as a Great Place to Work in both the U.S., U.K., and India, among other regional and international best workplace accolades. For more information, please visit www.cvent.com/careers, or connect with us on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn.
Hiring: Engineering
What employees say
+ Cvent has a Great Work Culture.
− Internal Salary Growth is Slow.
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Overview
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
Responsibilities
- Set the direction and long-term strategy for solving complex problems; communicate timeline, scope, risks, and the technical roadmap to leadership and stakeholders.
- Keep abreast of emerging cloud technologies, running POCs to assess suitability and value.
- Lead design and implementation of large-scale AWS architectures optimized for reliability, scalability, and cost.
- Develop and refine CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments for complex environments.
- Drive error budgets; define and track SLIs/SLOs; own organization-wide reliability targets.
- Lead deep-dive RCAs for major incidents using Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK; run blameless postmortems.
- Establish best practices for containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code (Terraform, AWS CDK).
- Mentor, coach, and provide technical escalation for SRE/DevOps engineers; foster a learning and ownership culture.
- Direct AI/automation initiatives to improve deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and developer efficiency (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot, generative AI for runbooks and incident management).
- Partner with engineering, product, and business to shape reliability strategy, incident process, architecture reviews, and roadmap.
- Ensure security, regulatory, and operational compliance across cloud architecture and automation.
- continuously communicating timeline, scope, risks, and technical road map.
- 7-10 years in Site Reliability, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering, including substantial leadership experience.
- Strong understanding of SRE principles and DevOps culture; adept at applying software engineering tools, methods, and practices.
- Deep AWS expertise across advanced networking, identity (IAM), and multi-region architectures; experience with large-scale, multi-tier distributed systems.
- Advanced development and scripting skills (Python, Go, Bash) focused on automation and troubleshooting distributed systems.
- Mastery of CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Argo CD), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK).
- Proven track record driving SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and reliability targets at scale, plus leading complex incident processes and blameless postmortems.
- Strong Unix/Linux background with deep knowledge of system internals.
- Experience with database technologies (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Couchbase preferred).
- Effective people leader and mentor with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; bias for execution.
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Last updated 27 October 2026
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