Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Trilyon, Inc. provides workforce and consulting solutions to organizations worldwide. The company is seeking a Senior CDN Engineer to design, secure, automate, monitor, and support enterprise Akamai content delivery services for high-traffic websites, APIs, and software downloads. The role also involves performance optimization, production reliability, incident response, and collaboration across technical and vendor teams.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain Akamai CDN architecture for public websites, APIs, portals, and software downloads
- Configure Akamai Property Manager, edge hostnames, origins, caching rules, routing rules, redirects, compression, Tiered Distribution, and activation workflows
- Configure and tune Akamai Bot Manager and Fraud Management controls to detect, allow, rate-limit, challenge, or block automated traffic
- Support Akamai App & API Protector, Web Application Firewall rules, rate controls, DDoS mitigation, Site Shield or Site Defender, and security exceptions
- Manage Akamai NetStorage and automate the publishing or synchronization of large software and product downloads
- Improve website and download performance by tuning cache headers, cache keys, time-to-live values, edge caching, API acceleration, and origin offload
- Use Akamai Control Center, Traffic Reports, Security Center, Edge Diagnostics, mPulse, Web Security Analytics, and log delivery data to monitor and troubleshoot services
- Troubleshoot regional latency, cache misses, origin health, DNS, TLS certificates, HTTP errors, website availability, API delivery, and download failures
- Create monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and thresholds for traffic spikes, bot activity, DDoS events, origin health, and service-level compliance
- Automate CDN and content-delivery tasks using Akamai APIs, Python, GitHub, Jenkins CI/CD, Terraform, Bash, PowerShell, or similar tools
- Support identity and access integrations for Akamai administration, including enterprise SSO technologies such as SAML and Okta
- Lead production changes, release support, incident response, root-cause analysis, vendor escalations, documentation, and knowledge transfer
Skills
- Advanced hands-on experience with Akamai CDN, Property Manager, Control Center, edge caching, routing rules, and origin configuration
- Hands-on experience with Akamai Bot Manager or Fraud Management, bot classification, mitigation policies, tuning, reporting, and false-positive management
- Experience with Akamai App & API Protector, WAF, DDoS mitigation, Site Shield or Site Defender, rate limiting, and web security analytics
- Experience with Akamai NetStorage, large-file or software-download delivery, and automated content synchronization
- Strong knowledge of HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, TLS, TCP/IP, headers, cookies, cache control, status codes, and browser-to-edge-to-origin traffic flow
- Experience with cache optimization, Tiered Distribution, API acceleration, origin offload, regional performance analysis, and web performance metrics
- Experience using Akamai Traffic Reports, Security Center, Edge Diagnostics, mPulse, log delivery, or comparable monitoring and analytics tools
- Automation and DevOps experience using REST APIs, Python, Git, Jenkins or another CI/CD platform, and infrastructure-as-code tools
- Experience supporting high-traffic production websites, customer portals, APIs, or globally distributed applications
- Ability to lead complex incident troubleshooting and communicate clearly with application, network, security, and business teams
- 7 or more years of relevant experience in CDN, web infrastructure, application delivery, web security, software engineering, or site reliability engineering
- Several years of hands-on experience supporting Akamai in a production enterprise environment
- Strong troubleshooting, automation, documentation, communication, and cross-team collaboration skills
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