Senior Database Engineer

Overview

Cvent is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider with more than 4,800 employees and ~22,000 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 human connection.

In This Role, You Will

• Design, develop, and manage databases on the AWS cloud platform
• Develop and maintain automation scripts or jobs to perform routine database tasks such as provisioning, backups, restores, and data migrations.
• Build and maintain automated testing frameworks for database changes and upgrades to minimize the risk of introducing errors.
• Implement self-healing mechanisms to automatically recover from database failures or performance degradation.
• Integrate database automation tools with CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous delivery and deployment of database changes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand their data requirements and ensure that the databases meet their needs
• Implement and manage database security policies, including access control, data encryption, and backup and recovery procedures
• Ensure that database backups and disaster recovery procedures are in place and tested regularly
• Develop and maintain database documentation, including data dictionaries, data models, and technical specifications
• Stay up-to-date with the latest cloud technologies and trends and evaluate new tools and products that could improve database performance and scalability.
  
  

Here's What You Need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• Minimum of 3-6 years of experience in designing, building, and administering databases on the AWS cloud platform
• Strong experience with Infra as Code (CloudFormation/AWS CDK) and automation experience in Python
• In-depth knowledge of AWS database services such as Amazon RDS, EC2, S3, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon Redshift and Postgres/Mysql/SqlServer
• Strong understanding of database design principles, data modelling, and normalisation
• Experience with database migration to AWS cloud platform
• Strong understanding of database security principles and best practices
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment
  
  

Good To Have

• AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or AWS Certified Database Specialty are a plus.