Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Tuppl is hiring a CDN Engineer to support a leading healthcare organization in a fully remote W2 contract role. The engineer will design, maintain, optimize, and secure enterprise-scale CDN environments, with a focus on Akamai, WAF, automation, distributed systems, and operational support.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Optimize content delivery performance through effective caching, traffic management, and acceleration techniques
- Partner with application teams, developers, network engineers, cloud engineers, and security teams to integrate CDN services
- Provide subject matter expertise and technical leadership on CDN technologies and platform capabilities
- Analyze traffic patterns, performance metrics, cache effectiveness, and security events
- Provide operational support for CDN services, including incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis
- Participate in on-call rotations and support late-night go-live activities
- Mentor engineers and support teams on CDN technologies, automation practices, and operational procedures
- Drive automation initiatives using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and modern DevOps practices
Skills
- 7+ years of hands-on experience implementing, configuring, optimizing, and supporting enterprise-scale CDN environments across highly distributed systems
- Strong experience with CDN platforms: Akamai (preferred), Imperva, Fastly, CloudFront, Cloudflare
- Experience with 2+ programming/scripting languages: Python, GoLang, Node.js, Java
- Experience building automation frameworks using Python, Terraform, GitOps
- Strong understanding of: TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS/mTLS, Load Balancing, Proxy technologies, WAF
- Experience with REST APIs, Postman, API acceleration, caching strategies
- Experience supporting distributed systems across cloud and hybrid environments
- Ability to participate in on-call support and work flexible schedules, including after-hours production deployments
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field
- Visa: USC or GC Only
- Deep expertise with Akamai products: TrafficPeak, Metadata Tracer, Kona Site Defender, Property Manager, EdgeWorkers, Bot Manager, Edge DNS, GTM, Site Shield
- Experience with observability platforms: Grafana, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, New Relic
- Experience with AWS, GCP, virtualized environments, and enterprise cloud architectures
- Familiarity with DevOps, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), GitOps methodologies, and CI/CD pipelines
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills
Benefits
- 100% remote work opportunity
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