Akamai System Engineer/Infrastructure Engineer

Akamai System Engineer/Infrastructure Engineer - Atlanta, GA

Onsite interview at Atlanta, GA

Client Strategic Platforms Infrastructure Operations team is looking for a passionate Akamai Systems Engineer. This role is needed to adequately support Akamai configuration for hundreds of AT&T applications and domains setup in the Akamai CDN.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• This role would be responsible for managing Akamai CDN configurations for high traffic highly iterative customer facing websites.

• Work with stakeholders to design, author, implement, and test Akamai changes in preproduction environment and ultimately once complete propagate to production.
• Provide technical design and architectural leadership and work hand-in-hand with Akamai professional services to assess impacts of changes
• Apply Performance, web acceleration techniques
• Help setup and maintain reports related to traffic and usage data, dashboards for usage and performance and documentation designed to help inform and notify stakeholders.
• Create and maintain tools interfacing with various Akamai features.
• Perform Akamai related maintenance activities on a regular basis.
• Be on-call for Akamai related events that could occur during off hours and be available for helping troubleshoot customer or release impacting incidents.
• Research, analyze and recommend new technologies, rationalization opportunities, standard processes, tools and techniques to further the firm s application and enterprise technology architecture strategies.

Required Qualifications

• Must have 3 years of level of real world Akamai configuration experience managing various Akamai features across multiple domains. Experience with other CDNs considered. Ex. Fastly, CloudFlare, Imperva, Cloudfront, etc.

• Experience with monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, PrometheGrafana, ELK stack, ability to understand metrics and impact to system performance, and ability to build dashboards and alerts to ensure system reliability.
• Experience with Siteshield and other Akamai security features.
• Strong scripting and coding ability across multiple languages and technologies
• Willingness to work flexible hours, oncall as needed.
• Proven experience optimizing reliability and performance and scaling technical infrastructure in a fast paced and collaborative environment
• Strong analytical skills and ability to provide data driven recommendations for critical decision making, mainly around system reconfiguration and improvement
• 5+ years of progressive experience in cloud engineering, site reliability, devops, system infrastructure, or a related technical role
• 5+ years of experience building and/or supporting web applications
• 5+ years of Linux Operating Systems experience including scripting
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to present complex technical information in a clear manner to peers, developers, and senior leaders

Optional Qualifications

• Internet security related experience

• Experience in performance tuning and application monitoring
• Experience in architecture and design of web based architecture
• Experience in a technical leadership capacity - team lead/manager etc.
• Experience in cloud technologies: AWS, Azure, etc.

Familiarity with HTML5, JavaScript frameworks, and CSS3