CDN Engineer

W2 ONLY NO C2C

Key Responsibilities: 
1. Serve as the technical owner and subject matter expert for CDN technologies, partnering with applications, network, and security teams to implement scalable solutions, build self-service capabilities within     an internal developer portal, execute complex global migrations and enforce enterprise standards. 
2. Lead the technical transformation of global content delivery strategy and the newly formed Content Delivery Network (CDN) Center of Excellence (CoE), shifting from a vendor-managed legacy model to a modern,     automated, Multi-CDN ecosystem. 
3. Lead technical root-cause analysis (RCA) for high-priority production incidents, participate in on-call rotations, and build automated remediation scripts to prevent repeat issues. 4. Maintain high system       reliability through proactive monitoring and incident prevention. Establish and track CDN-specific SLOs/SLAs and implement alerting and proactive remediation. 
5. Evaluate emerging CDN technologies, tools, and performance optimization techniques. 
6. Serve as an active mentor and trainer to upskill internal systems and automation engineers. Develop internal documentation, playbooks, and training materials to elevate team capabilities 

Technical Qualifications: 
1. Multi-CDN Strategy & Implementation: Directly configure, deploy, and maintain landing zones and properties across Akamai, Cloudflare, Google Media CDN, Google Cloud Platform Cloud CDN, and Fastly, matching application          workloads to fit-for-purpose CDN tiers. 
2. Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Develop modular, production-grade Terraform configurations and Ansible playbooks to automate CDN provisioning, origin mappings, WAF rules, and Bot Management policies,       eliminating manual vendor UI updates. 
3. Self-Service Tooling & Portal Integration: Build API-driven self-service capabilities and custom plugins for an internal developer portal (built on Backstage). Write front-end web components in React and       backend APIs in Python (FastAPI/Flask) or Java to allow application teams to self-provision CDN properties and cache purges. 
4. CI/CD Pipelines & API Security: Build and maintain declarative GitOps deployment pipelines using Tekton (Pipeline-as-Code) and GitHub Actions. Publish management APIs via Apigee, ensuring compliance with       OpenAPI standards and 42Crunch security scans. 
5. Observability & Telemetry: Build telemetry pipelines and centralized dashboards using Splunk, Dynatrace, and Grafana to provide real-time visibility into global traffic, security events, and Offload       efficiency.

Skills Required:
SaaS

Skills Preferred:
Content Management

Experience Required:
Engineer 3 Content Delivery Network (CDN) Expertise: 5+ years of experience managing enterprise CDN platforms (Akamai, Cloudflare, Fastly, or Google Cloud CDN). Deep understanding of DNS, GTM, CNAME chaining, HTTP/2 & HTTP/3, TLS/SSL, Caching Headers, and Edge Computing.

Experience Preferred:
Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform) (specifically Google Cloud Platform Cloud Run, Google Cloud Platform Transcoder API, Google Cloud Platform OpenShift/GKE clusters). CMS/AEM Integration: Experience configuring CDN layers in front of Adobe Experience Manager (AEM / AEMaaCS).

Education Required:
Bachelor''''''''s Degree

Additional Information :
Content Delivery Network (CDN) Platform Engineer is responsible for the design, implementation, optimization, and operational reliability of enterprise CDN platforms supporting large-scale, customer-facing digital applications. This role drives the delivery of secure and highly available content by managing CDN configurations, caching strategies, traffic routing, and edge security controls across distributed environments Hybrid role will consider remote candidates also 1 day a week onsite