Cloud Network Engineer- CDN

Principle Pride; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Principle Pride in Pune, India is seeking a senior cloud/CDN engineer to operate Akamai at scale, including property configuration, caching and origin management.

You will design and tune Akamai WAF policies, troubleshoot edge-to-origin paths, and collaborate with security and DevOps teams. Strong scripting with Terraform and CI/CD is required.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Akamai production experience at scale.
• Experience operating Akamai WAF (App & API Protector or Kona).
• Strong command of HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, DNS and caching behaviour.
• Experience with Azure networking and edge-origin routing.
• Proven ability to diagnose hard production issues across edge, network and app layers.
• Ability to document edge behaviour for engineers and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design and tune Akamai policies to protect apps and APIs.
• Manage property configuration, caching settings and origin management.
• Investigate real attack traffic and manage false positives.
• Collaborate with security and operations teams on risk controls.
• Implement IaC via Terraform and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Produce clear technical documentation and edge-case explanations.

Skills

Akamai production experience

Akamai WAF experience

HTTP/HTTPS/TLS/DNS debugging

Azure networking

Edge-origin troubleshooting

Technical documentation

Bot management & DDoS mitigation

Multi-CDN experience

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Terraform (Akamai provider)

CI/CD tooling

CloudFront

Cloudflare

Tencent CDN

Job description

• 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.