Title: Senior Akamai Platform Engineer
Location: Remote LTAM
Duration: 12+ month contract
Compensation: $25.00 - $28.00/hr
Senior Akamai Platform Engineer
Position OverviewOur client is seeking a Senior Akamai Platform Engineer to join its Reliability Engineering and Platform Engineering organization supporting the critical edge infrastructure behind homedepot.com and other enterprise digital services. Akamai serves as a critical ingress point for internet traffic accessing services and is a key dependency across major customer-facing applications and business initiatives. The environment includes 400+ CDN properties and requires a high level of reliability, security, performance, and operational discipline.
This is a highly hands-on engineering role within a fast-moving production environment. The engineer will work extensively across Akamai CDN, Property Manager, Edge DNS, caching, origin routing, traffic management, WAF, bot management, and edge technologies. The successful candidate must be capable of operating independently and owning Akamai solutions from initial requirements through configuration, testing, change approval, implementation, validation, and production support.
This is not a ticket-taking or junior administration position. We are seeking an experienced Akamai engineer who can immediately contribute within a large-scale, business-critical environment.
Platform EnvironmentThe Akamai platform sits at a critical point within Our client digital architecture and supports traffic flowing into customer-facing services.
The environment includes:
- 400+ CDN properties supporting high-traffic digital and e-commerce applications.
- Akamai as a critical ingress layer for internet traffic accessing services.
- Akamai CDN and Property Manager for delivery and configuration management.
- Akamai Edge DNS for DNS services and traffic routing.
- Cache configuration, cache management, and edge-server cache purging.
- Origin routing and traffic management across customer-facing applications.
- Production Web Application Firewall (WAF) configurations.
- Akamai Network Lists and Client Lists for managing IP-based security policies, blocking malicious traffic, and listing trusted partners.
- Akamai Bot Manager for detecting and mitigating malicious automated traffic.
- Akamai edge capabilities, including EdgeWorkers.
- A high-volume production environment with frequent configuration and change activity.
- Sev-1 and Sev-2 incident response involving business-critical digital services.
The platform also supports and interacts with major initiatives across Home Services, digital marketing, Orange Apron Media, SEO, AI crawlers, web bots, Adobe Test & Target, application modernization, and the Nucleus Renderer platform.
Key Responsibilities - Akamai CDN & Traffic Engineering- Engineer, configure, maintain, and optimize Akamai solutions supporting large-scale customer-facing applications.
- Manage Akamai CDN, Property Manager, Edge DNS, cache configurations, origin routing, and traffic management.
- Configure and maintain CDN properties supporting high-volume e-commerce traffic.
- Perform CDN cache purges on Akamai edge servers to rapidly deploy updated content and resolve production caching issues.
- Design and implement URL, origin, and routing changes associated with application and platform migrations.
- Troubleshoot CDN routing, DNS, caching, origin connectivity, and application-performance issues.
WAF, Bot Management & Edge Security- Configure, maintain, and tune Akamai Web Application Firewall (WAF) policies across production environments.
- Create and tune custom WAF rules to protect against threats such as credential stuffing, path-based exploits, and other malicious traffic while minimizing impact to legitimate users.
- Manage IP policies using Akamai Network Lists and Client Lists, including blocking malicious sources and listing trusted partners.
- Configure and tune Akamai Bot Manager policies to identify and mitigate:
- Web scrapers
- Account fraud bots
- Automated abuse
- Malicious crawlers
- Implement bot mitigation techniques including rate limiting, challenges, and fingerprint-based blocking.
- Ensure legitimate traffic—including search engines, SEO crawlers, approved AI crawlers, marketing platforms, and trusted partners—is handled appropriately.
- Support additional Akamai edge-security technologies, including Content Protector and EdgeWorkers where applicable.
Production Changes & Platform Operations- Independently own Akamai changes throughout the complete engineering lifecycle:
- Gather and understand requirements.
- Design the technical solution.
- Configure the Akamai environment.
- Test and validate changes.
- Communicate with internal customers and engineering teams.
- Prepare and submit formal change requests.
- Navigate change approvals.
- Lead production implementation.
- Coordinate post-deployment validation.
- Participate in frequent production changes, including scheduled evening implementations when required.
- Maintain Akamai configurations using a codified configuration / infrastructure-as-code approach.
- Partner with application, platform, security, marketing, SEO, and cloud teams on initiatives requiring Akamai changes.
Incident Response & Reliability- Participate in Sev-1 and Sev-2 production incident response.
- Diagnose and resolve issues involving:
- CDN routing
- DNS failures
- Cache inconsistencies
- Origin connectivity
- WAF/security behavior
- Bot traffic
- Application performance degradation
- Restore services within established SLA targets.
- Identify root causes and opportunities to improve reliability, resiliency, security, and platform performance.
- Help reduce Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) through improved processes, tooling, and documentation.
Documentation & Operational Excellence- Author and maintain:
- Operational documentation
- Deployment runbooks
- Troubleshooting guides
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
- Document repeatable engineering and operational processes to improve knowledge sharing and incident response.
- Help establish scalable platform-engineering practices within the Akamai environment.
Required Qualifications- 5–7+ years of hands-on Akamai experience within enterprise or large-scale production environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with:
- Akamai CDN
- Akamai Property Manager
- Akamai Edge DNS
- Cache configuration and management
- Origin routing
- Traffic management
- Web Application Firewall (WAF)
- Experience managing IP access/security controls through Akamai Network Lists and/or Client Lists.
- Experience configuring and tuning custom WAF rules.
- Hands-on experience with Akamai Bot Manager or similar advanced bot-management capabilities.
- Strong understanding of DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, CDN architecture, web traffic, caching, and application delivery.
- Experience supporting large-scale, highly available customer-facing production environments.
- Demonstrated experience independently implementing Akamai changes in production.
- Experience participating in Sev-1/Sev-2 incident response and troubleshooting complex production issues.
- Experience working within formal enterprise change-management processes.
- Background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Engineering, DevOps, network engineering, or cybersecurity.
- Ability to operate independently with minimal Akamai-specific training or oversight.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to support scheduled evening production implementations when required.
Preferred Qualifications- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) background strongly preferred.
- Experience with Akamai Bot Manager Premier.
- Experience with Akamai Content Protector.
- Experience with Akamai EdgeWorkers.
- Cybersecurity experience involving WAF, bot protection, edge security, application security, or threat mitigation.
- Experience supporting large-scale e-commerce or high-traffic consumer digital platforms.
- Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform) experience.
- Familiarity with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Run, and Vertex AI.
- DevOps experience combining development, infrastructure, and operational responsibilities.
- Experience maintaining infrastructure through code or codified configuration practices.
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- Continuous learning and professional development programs
- A culture that prioritizes employee wellbeing
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