Looking for Senior CDN Engineer with Akamai _Need Independent candidates.
Vrddhi Solutions LLC
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Skills
- Google Cloud Platform
- Dragon NaturallySpeaking
- Dynatrace
- Continuous Integration
- Computer Networking
- Computer Science
- Continuous Delivery
- Artificial Intelligence
- Akamai
- API
- Amazon Web Services
- Ansible
- Caching
- Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Cloud Computing
- Good Clinical Practice
- Google Tag Manager (GTM)
- Information Technology
- JavaScript
- Kubernetes
- Load Balancing
- HTTPS
- Incident Management
- HTTP
- JIRA
- Management
- Microsoft Azure
- Java
- Network Engineering
- ServiceNow
- Shell Scripting
- Software Engineering
- Routing
- Performance Tuning
- Proxies
- POSTMAN
- New Relic
- Node.js
- SIEM
- SaaS
- Scripting
- Operational Efficiency
- Optimization
- Python
- Terraform
- Real-time
- Security Controls
- Splunk
- TCP/IP
- Dashboard
- DNS
- Version Control
- WAF
- Web Applications
- DevOps
- GitHub
- Grafana
- SPA
- TLS
- Windows PowerShell
Summary
Role: Senior CDN Engineer
Location: Remote
Duration: Contract 6 -12 months
Start Date: 2 weeks from offer
Interview Process: 1 interview
Need to Share live location at the time of submission
These candidates need to be able to deploy and configure CDN tools (Akamai, specifically); ideally, they'd like to have experience with more than 1 tool, too.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting CDN, edge delivery, networking, or related infrastructure platforms.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Network Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Hands-on experience with Akamai technologies including:
- Property Manager
- Edge DNS
- Global Traffic Management (GTM)
- Cloudlets
- Bot Manager
- WAF and Security Products
- Working knowledge of Cloudflare or other enterprise CDN platforms.
- Experience building and maintaining automation frameworks using Python, Terraform, GitOps, Ansible, or similar Infrastructure-as-Code technologies.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, version control systems, and DevOps operational practices.
- Proficiency in two or more programming or scripting languages including Python, Node.js, Java, JavaScript, Shell Script, or PowerShell.
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS/mTLS, proxies, load balancing, CDN routing, and application delivery.
- Experience working with REST APIs, Postman, API acceleration, API caching, API gateway integrations, and API security controls.
- Experience supporting cloud environments including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience working with distributed platforms, containers, Kubernetes, and edge computing technologies.
- Experience using observability and monitoring platforms such as Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, New Relic, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Azure Monitor, and Akamai TrafficPeak.
- Experience troubleshooting production issues across CDN, DNS, networking, cloud, application, and security layers.
- Experience implementing security controls including WAF, DDoS protection, Bot Management, certificate management, API security, and rate limiting.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting large-scale enterprise digital platforms and globally distributed web applications.
- Hands-on experience building or supporting real-time Single Page Applications (SPA).
- Experience leveraging AI, Generative AI, AIOps, or intelligent automation platforms to improve operational efficiency and incident response.
- Experience implementing self-healing automation, intelligent runbooks, and automated remediation workflows.
- Strong understanding of CDN traffic engineering, origin optimization, content caching strategies, performance tuning, and digital experience optimization.
- Experience building operational dashboards, alerts, SLIs, SLOs, and reliability-focused monitoring solutions.
- Experience integrating CDN solutions with ServiceNow, Jira, GitHub, Azure DevOps, SIEM tools, and cloud-native services.
- Strong technical expertise architecting secure, scalable, and highly available edge delivery solutions across multi-cloud environments.
- Dice Id: 91138338
- Position Id: 9107872
- Posted 1 day ago
Company Info
About Vrddhi Solutions LLC
Our clients trust us for what we do. We use our skills and industry experience to recruit, consult with and retain the best technology talent who will be the right fit for our clients, instead of simply filling an open position.
Vrddhi Solutions LLC helps skilled technology professionals connect with direct hire and contract positions in the areas of their expertise. Our clients utilize our services so they can focus on their business goals. We take on the responsibility of sourcing, screening, and hiring a most suitable candidate for our esteemed clients.
Vrddhi Solutions was established and firmly rooted beyond traditional staffing and consulting services – we believe in relationships. We are invested in you. And that means diving deep – understanding both your current and potential longer-term gaps and needs – and bringing the very best technical talent and cultural fit for those specific objectives.
We strive to provide experience-driven staffing solutions and managed services models that allow you to retain resources and knowledge
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