CDN Platform Engineer

Dearborn, MI (Hybrid)

Full Time 

Overview

The CDN Platform Engineer will design, implement, optimize, and support enterprise CDN platforms for large-scale, customer-facing applications. The role focuses on secure, highly available content delivery, caching, traffic routing, edge security, automation, and Multi-CDN transformation.

Hybrid: Remote candidates considered; 1 day per week onsite.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and serve as SME for enterprise CDN technologies, partnering with application, network, and security teams.
• Build self-service CDN capabilities through an internal developer portal.
• Lead global CDN migrations and enforce enterprise standards.
• Drive modernization from legacy vendor-managed CDN environments to an automated Multi-CDN ecosystem.
• Lead RCA for critical production incidents and participate in on-call rotations.
• Develop automation and remediation scripts to improve reliability.
• Define and monitor CDN SLOs/SLAs, alerts, and proactive remediation.
• Evaluate emerging CDN technologies and performance optimization techniques.
• Mentor engineers and develop technical documentation, playbooks, and training materials.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years managing enterprise CDN platforms such as Akamai, Cloudflare, Fastly, or Google Cloud CDN.
• Strong knowledge of DNS, GTM, CNAME, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, TLS/SSL, caching, and edge computing.
• Hands-on experience with Akamai, Cloudflare, Google Media CDN, Google Cloud Platform Cloud CDN, and Fastly.
• Strong Terraform and Ansible experience for CDN provisioning, origin mappings, WAF, and Bot Management automation.
• Experience building API-driven self-service solutions and Backstage plugins.
• Front-end development with React and backend development using Python (FastAPI/Flask) or Java.
• Experience with GitOps, Tekton, Pipeline-as-Code, and GitHub Actions.
• Experience with Apigee, OpenAPI, and 42Crunch security scanning.
• Experience with Splunk, Dynatrace, and Grafana for telemetry and monitoring.
• SaaS experience.
• Bachelor's degree.

Preferred Qualifications

• Google Cloud Platform experience with Cloud Run, Transcoder API, and GKE/OpenShift.
• Experience with CDN integration for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM/AEMaaCS).
• Content management experience.