Key skills
CDN configurationPythonAkamaiTerraformGoLangNode.jsJavaGrafanaAPI toolssoft skillsGolangAWSGCPCloudFrontNew RelicSplunkPostmanGitOpsCDNCloudflareFastlyCachingPerformance OptimizationWAF
About this role
Apetan Consulting LLC is seeking a Senior CDN Engineer with a minimum of 10+ years of experience in CDN configuration across distributed systems. The role involves optimizing and maintaining CDN solutions, building automation frameworks, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure effective integration of CDN solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Configuration for CDN at the enterprise wide across distributed systems
- Building and maintaining robust automation frameworks using tools like Python, Terraform, GitOps, or other scripting languages to manage CDN configurations
- Configure, optimize, and maintain CDN solutions like Akamai, Imperva, Fastly, CloudFront, Cloudflare etc. to enhance the content delivery performance
- Understanding of search engine and performance optimization on CDN solutions
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Akamai TrafficPeak, Grafana, Splunk / MS Sentinel / New Relic, Akamai Metadata Tracer, ability to understand metrics and impact to system performance, and ability to build dashboards and alerts to ensure system reliability
- Work on various aspects of CDN like automation, engagements, on-call support, triaging/troubleshooting efficiently
- Understanding of core networking concepts (e.g., TCP/IP, TLS/mTLS, DNS, HTTP/s, proxy, load-balancing, WAF etc.)
- Experience with API tools like Postman/Rest APIs and API acceleration/Caching patterns
- Implement and maintain Bot Manager and DNS configurations
- Optimize cache settings, routing rules, and security configurations within CDN
- Implement security best practices for CDN configurations and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, network engineers, and security experts
- Provide CDN solutions/recommendations such as reference architecture, configurations, and deployment processes to enterprise solution teams
- Provide support for incident resolution and root cause analysis
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of CDN solutions into enterprise applications
Requirements:
- Min 10+ years experience configuration for CDN at the enterprise wide across distributed systems
- Must be flexible with the schedule as our CDN releases happen late at night
- Experience with two or more programming/scripting languages (e.g., GoLang, Node.js, Python, Java)
- Working knowledge in other CDN areas such as: Akamai, Imperva, Fastly, CloudFront, Cloudflare etc
- Building and maintaining robust automation frameworks using tools like Python, Terraform, GitOps, or other scripting languages to manage CDN configurations
- Configure, optimize, and maintain CDN solutions like Akamai, Imperva, Fastly, CloudFront, Cloudflare etc. to enhance the content delivery performance
- Understanding of search engine and performance optimization on CDN solutions
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Akamai TrafficPeak, Grafana, Splunk / MS Sentinel / New Relic, Akamai Metadata Tracer, ability to understand metrics and impact to system performance, and ability to build dashboards and alerts to ensure system reliability
- Must be able to work on various aspects of CDN like automation, engagements, on-call support, triaging/troubleshooting efficiently
- Understanding of core networking concepts (e.g., TCP/IP, TLS/mTLS, DNS, HTTP/s, proxy, load-balancing, WAF etc.)
- Experience with API tools like Postman/Rest APIs and API acceleration/Caching patterns
- Implement and maintain Bot Manager and DNS configurations
- Optimize cache settings, routing rules, and security configurations within CDN
- Familiar with various distributed compute environments including client-server, VMs, AWS, GCP
- Implement security best practices for CDN configurations and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, network engineers, and security experts
- Must be able to provide CDN solutions/recommendations such as reference architecture, configurations, and deployment processes to enterprise solution teams
- Provide support for incident resolution and root cause analysis
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of CDN solutions into enterprise applications