CDN & Cloud Network Engineer - Akamai

Principle Pride; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Principle Pride seeks a senior Akamai edge & security engineer to own CDN delivery and WAF policies at scale. You will manage DNS, traffic routing, TLS, and Azure networking across a large public web estate, coordinating with platform engineers and cybersecurity teams.

The role demands hands-on experience with Akamai products, edge security, and incident response. You will design, implement and review changes end-to-end, mentor peers, and contribute to runbooks and knowledge articles.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Akamai experience in production at scale, including property configuration, caching and routing.
• Hands-on Akamai WAF policy design, tuning, false positives, and live-traffic response.
• Strong understanding of HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, DNS, caching, headers and full request path.
• Solid Azure networking experience with gateways, load balancers, NSGs and traffic routing.
• Track record diagnosing complex production issues across edge, network, and app layers.
• Ability to document clearly and explain edge behavior to engineers and stakeholders.
• Experience with bot management and DDoS mitigation.
• Multi-CDN experience or CDN migrations.
• Terraform (Akamai provider) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with secure configurations per regulatory environments.

Responsibilities

• Own CDN delivery configs: caching, routing, origin failover, and tuning end-to-end.
• Own WAF policy: design, tuning, false-positives, and live incident response.
• Run DNS and global traffic management including regional routing and origin failover.
• Manage TLS certificates and edge delivery security standards.
• Configure and troubleshoot Azure networking fronting origins: AP Gateway, load balancers, DNS, and routing.
• Act as senior technical escalation during traffic/availability incidents and drive root cause analysis.
• Review changes and designs from peers and share edge/CDN knowledge across the team.
• Keep documentation, runbooks, and knowledge articles accurate and useful.

Skills

Akamai in prod

Akamai WAF

CDN delivery

Azure networking

DNS & traffic routing

Terraform (Akamai)

CI/CD pipelines

Edge security

DDoS mitigation

Multi-CDN

API/IaC config

Tools

Application Gateway

Load balancers

NSGs

Edge logs & HAR analysis

Job description

Akamai CDN delivery, Akamai WAF, DNS and traffic management, and the Azure networking that connects the edge back to origin. You'll design and make the changes, be the person others come to when traffic behaves strangely, and raise the standard of how we run the edge.

You'll work day to day with platform engineers, application pods, and cybersecurity, and act as the technical reference point for CDN and edge security across the team.

Key responsibilities

• Own CDN delivery configurations across a large public web estate: caching strategy, request routing, origin failover, and performance tuning — designing and implementing changes, end to end.
• Own WAF policy across the estate: rule design and tuning, false-positive triage, protection updates, and hands-on response during live attack traffic, working alongside cybersecurity.
• Run DNS and global traffic management, including regional routing, load balancing, and failover between origins.
• Manage TLS certificates and secure delivery standards at the edge.
• Configure and troubleshoot the Azure networking that fronts our origins: Application Gateway, load balancers, NSGs, DNS, and traffic routing.
• Act as senior technical escalation during incidents affecting traffic, availability, or edge security, and drive root cause analysis so problems don't come back.
• Review changes and designs from other engineers, and share edge and CDN knowledge across the team.
• Keep documentation, runbooks, and knowledge articles accurate and useful.

Required qualifications and requirements

• Deep, current hands-on experience running Akamai in production at scale: property configuration, caching, routing, origin management. You should be comfortable opening a property and knowing exactly what it does.
• Hands-on experience operating Akamai WAF (App & API Protector or Kona): policy design and tuning, false-positive management, and working through real attack traffic — not just reviewing dashboards.
• Strong command of how the web actually works: HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, DNS, caching behaviour, headers, and the full request path from client to origin. You can debug from a HAR file, curl output, or edge logs.
• Solid Azure networking experience: application gateways, load balancers, NSGs, DNS, and traffic routing between edge and origin.
• A track record of diagnosing hard production issues across edge, network, and application layers.
• Ability to produce clear technical documentation and explain edge behaviour to engineers and business stakeholders.
• Bot management and DDoS mitigation experience.
• Multi-CDN experience (e.g., CloudFront, Cloudflare, Tencent) or CDN migrations.
• Terraform (Akamai provider) and CI/CD pipeline experience.
• Experience operating within security and operational risk controls in regulated environments.
• Experience managing configuration through APIs or infrastructure as code.