Cloud Infrastructure Engineer II

Our Culture and Impact Cvent is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider with more than 5,000+ employees and 24,000+ customers worldwide, including 60% 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. Cvent's strength lies in its people, fostering a culture where everyone is encouraged to think like entrepreneurs, taking risks and making decisions confidently. We value diverse perspectives and celebrate differences, working together with colleagues and clients to build strong connections. AI at Cvent: Leading the Future Are you ready to shape the future of work at the intersection of human expertise and AI innovation? At Cvent, we're committed to continuous learning and adaptation—AI isn't just a tool for us, it's part of our DNA. We're looking for candidates who are eager to evolve alongside technology. If you love to experiment boldly, share your discoveries, and help define best practices for AI-augmented work, you'll thrive here. Our team values professionals who thoughtfully integrate AI into their daily work, delivering exceptional results while relying on the human judgment and creativity that drive real innovation. Throughout our interview process, you'll have the chance to demonstrate how you use AI to learn, iterate, and amplify your impact. If you're excited to be part of a team that's leading the way in AI-powered collaboration, we'd love to meet you. Join Cvent's Cloud Operations team and play a pivotal role in designing and implementing cutting-edge, scalable infrastructure that powers our world-class SaaS solutions for the event and hospitality industry. Be at the forefront of innovation, ensuring resilience and performance in a rapidly evolving cloud environment. We strive to deliver best-practice cloud architectures using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Cvent's compute, storage, transit, and infrastructure compliance needs. In This Role, You Will: Streamline Processes: By collaborating with team members to automate repetitive tasks and identify opportunities for process improvement using serverless tools such as AWS Step Functions, AWS Lambda, and Chef. Collaborate Globally: By partnering with our Database, Enterprise Services, Security and Site Reliability Engineers in US, Canada, and India to build and implement infrastructure using AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) written in TypeScript and automation and workflow tooling written in Python. Innovate: By participating in technical solution discussions with the team, diving into the details to solve problems, and helping the team to design, implement, and optimize cloud infrastructure solutions. Balance Your Work Time Between: 1/2 programming and automation development and 1/2 assisting internal clients on operational matters. Here's What You Need: 2+ years of technical experience in technology (e.g., software development, cloud computing, infrastructure engineering, and/or security engineering). 2+ years on a team that manages Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. 1+ years of building automation tools to handle operational tasks using Python. Preferred Qualifications 1+ years building infrastructure-as-code solutions using AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) written with TypeScript or 1+ years writing TypeScript, Node.js or another JavaScript language. 1+ years using a configuration management tool (e.g. AWS Systems Manager (SSM), Chef, and/or Ansible) to automate the installation of applications and configuration of operating system settings on both Windows and Linux. Success Factors Proactive in identifying areas for automation and process improvement. Demonstrates ownership of issues and follows through to resolution. Contributes to a culture of transparency, documentation, and continuous learning. Due to the 24x7x365 nature of Cloud Infrastructure Operations, this role will require participation in on-call rotation, though given our global team, this is a one week 10-hour per day rotation, with handoff to our India team allowing you to sleep during on-call weeks. This rotation occurs approximately every 6 weeks, with some off-hours support from time to time as needed outside of this rotation. Our current work schedule is Monday, Tuesday, and Friday work from home and Wednesday, Thursday in the office. We offer twice yearly companywide events to share our growing organization's technology strategy, share our sales outlook, and celebrate promotions of our growing team. Come help us build world-class cloud solutions. Job Location: Cvent HQ in Tysons Corner, VA. Hybrid: 2 days in office