CDN(Content Delivery Network) Engineer

You are an experienced Content Delivery Network (CDN) professional with 7+ years of hands-on experience implementing, configuring, optimizing, and supporting enterprise-scale CDN environments across highly distributed systems. You thrive in fast-paced environments, possess deep expertise in CDN technologies, automation, networking, and security, and are comfortable supporting critical go-live activities during off-hours and late-night deployment windows.

You are a proactive problem solver who can collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, provide architectural guidance, and develop scalable CDN solutions that improve application performance, reliability, security, and user experience.

Role Responsibilities Development & Enforcement Design, implement, configure, and maintain enterprise CDN solutions across distributed environments.

Develop and enforce CDN standards, best practices, security controls, and operational procedures. Implement and maintain Bot Manager, DNS configurations, caching strategies, routing rules, and security policies. Ensure CDN configurations comply with organizational security requirements and industry standards. Optimize content delivery performance through effective caching, traffic management, and acceleration techniques.

Collaboration & Expertise Partner with application teams, developers, network engineers, cloud engineers, and security teams to integrate CDN services into enterprise applications.

Provide subject matter expertise and technical leadership on CDN technologies and platform capabilities. Develop reference architectures, configuration standards, deployment processes, and technical recommendations for enterprise solution teams. Participate in architecture reviews and strategic technology discussions. Analysis & Configuration Configure, optimize, and manage CDN platforms including: okamai (preferred) Imperva Fastly AWS CloudFront Cloudflare Analyze traffic patterns, performance metrics, cache effectiveness, and security events. Optimize search engine performance and content delivery efficiency through CDN tuning. Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and implement improvements to reduce latency and increase availability. Manage API acceleration, caching patterns, and edge delivery optimizations. Operational Support Provide operational support for CDN services, including incident response, troubleshooting, triage, and root cause analysis.

Participate in on-call rotations and support late-night go-live activities and production deployments. Monitor CDN environments using enterprise monitoring and observability tools. Build dashboards, alerts, and reporting mechanisms to ensure platform stability and reliability. Ensure rapid resolution of production issues while minimizing business impact.

Mentorship & Training Mentor engineers and support teams on CDN technologies, automation practices, and operational procedures. Share knowledge regarding CDN architecture, caching strategies, monitoring, troubleshooting, and security best practices. Create technical documentation, operational runbooks, and training materials. Innovation and Research Research emerging CDN technologies, edge computing innovations, and industry trends.

Evaluate new tools, platforms, and capabilities to improve enterprise CDN performance and operational efficiency. Drive automation initiatives using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and modern DevOps practices. Recommend innovative solutions that improve reliability, security, scalability, and customer experience.

Deep expertise with Akamai products and services, including: o Akamai TrafficPeak Akamai Metadata Tracer Akamai security and delivery products Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as: oGrafana

Splunk Microsoft Sentinel New Relic Experience creating dashboards, alerting frameworks, and performance monitoring solutions.

Knowledge of search engine optimization and CDN performance optimization techniques. Experience with AWS, Google Cloud Platform, virtualized environments, and enterprise cloud architectures. Familiarity with DevOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, GitOps methodologies, and CI/CD pipelines. Experience developing enterprise reference architectures and deployment standards. Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills.