Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dice is a technology-focused recruiting and job marketplace company presenting this opportunity with Apex Systems for an enterprise Content Delivery Network (CDN) Platform Engineer. The role owns the design, transformation, automation, reliability, and optimization of global Multi-CDN platforms while partnering with application, network, and security teams. It also develops self-service platform capabilities, leads migrations and incident response, establishes enterprise standards, and mentors engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical owner and subject matter expert for enterprise CDN technologies, partnering with application, network, and security teams to design and implement scalable solutions
- Lead the technical transformation of the global content delivery strategy, driving the evolution from a legacy vendor-managed model to a modern Multi-CDN architecture
- Build and enhance self-service capabilities within the organization's internal developer portal to accelerate onboarding and provisioning processes
- Execute complex global CDN migrations while establishing and enforcing enterprise standards, governance, and best practices
- Lead root cause analysis (RCA) efforts for critical production incidents, participate in on-call support rotations, and develop automated remediation solutions to prevent recurring issues
- Maintain high levels of platform reliability through proactive monitoring, alerting, incident prevention, and performance optimization
- Define, implement, and track CDN-specific service-level objectives (SLOs) and service-level agreements (SLAs)
- Evaluate emerging CDN technologies, tools, and performance optimization techniques to improve platform capabilities
- Mentor and train systems and automation engineers by developing documentation, operational playbooks, and training materials
Skills
- 5+ years of experience managing enterprise CDN platforms including Akamai, Cloudflare, Fastly, Google Cloud CDN, Google Media CDN, or similar technologies
- Experience configuring, deploying, and managing CDN properties, landing zones, traffic routing, and edge delivery services across multiple CDN providers
- Strong understanding of DNS, GTM, CNAME chaining, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, TLS/SSL, caching policies, and edge computing concepts
- Strong experience developing production-grade Terraform modules and Ansible playbooks
- Experience automating CDN provisioning, origin configurations, WAF policies, bot management controls, and operational workflows
- Experience building API-driven self-service capabilities within developer platforms such as Backstage
- Hands-on experience developing: React-based front-end components, Python (FastAPI/Flask) or Java-based backend services
- Ability to build solutions enabling application teams to self-provision CDN services and perform cache management activities
- Experience building and maintaining GitOps-based deployment pipelines
- Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions and Tekton Pipelines (Pipeline-as-Code)
- Experience publishing and securing APIs through Apigee
- Familiarity with OpenAPI specifications and API security validation tools such as 42Crunch
- Experience building telemetry pipelines and operational dashboards
- Strong knowledge of: Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana
- Ability to provide visibility into application performance, traffic patterns, security events, and CDN offload efficiency
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field
- Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform), including: Cloud Run, Transcoder API, GKE/OpenShift environments
- Experience supporting CDN integrations for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM/AEMaaCS)
- Experience operating within large-scale enterprise digital platforms and global content delivery environments
- Exposure to modern platform engineering, developer experience (DevEx), and cloud-native architectures
- Advanced technical certifications in Cloud, Networking, Platform Engineering, or Security disciplines
Benefits
- Hybrid work in SE Michigan preferred; remote candidates will be considered if they sit in EST/CST.
- Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans.
- ESPP (employee stock purchase program).
- 401K program, with contributions typically available within 30 days of starting and a company match after 12 months of tenure.
- HSA (Health Savings Account) on the HDHP plan.
- SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions.
- Corporate discount savings program and other discounts.
- On-demand training program.
- Access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses, books, and seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure.
- Certification discounts and other perks for associations including CompTIA and IIBA.
- Dedicated customer service team for Consultants to address questions around benefits and other resources.
- Certified Career Coach.
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