Content Delivery Network (CDN) Platform Engineer

EPITEC; Dearborn (MI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

EPITEC is seeking an experienced CDN Architect to own enterprise CDN platforms, optimize delivery, and drive secure, highly available content across global environments.

You will lead the CDN CoE, modernize legacy vendor models to a Multi-CDN ecosystem, and build automation for provisioning, security rules, and telemetry. Collaboration with applications, security, and network teams is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years managing enterprise CDN platforms (Akamai, Cloudflare, Fastly, or Google Cloud CDN).
• Deep understanding of DNS, GTM, CNAME chaining, HTTP/2 & HTTP/3, TLS/SSL, caching headers, and edge computing.
• Experience supporting SaaS environments.

Responsibilities

• Own CDN technologies and partner with applications, network, and security teams.
• Lead the CDN Center of Excellence and modernize to a Multi-CDN ecosystem.
• Perform RCAs, participate in on-call rotations, and build automated remediation scripts.

Skills

CDN management

Edge computing

DNS/GTM/HTTP2/HTTP3

SaaS experience

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Tekton

GitHub Actions

Apigee/OpenAPI

Job description

Description

You will be responsible for the design, implementation, optimization, and operational reliability of enterprise CDN platforms supporting large-scale, customer-facing digital applications. This role drives the delivery of secure and highly available content by managing CDN configurations, caching strategies, traffic routing, and edge security controls across distributed environments.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical owner and subject matter expert for CDN technologies, partnering with applications, network, and security teams to implement scalable solutions, build self-service capabilities within an internal developer portal, execute complex global migrations and enforce enterprise standards.
• Lead the technical transformation of global content delivery strategy and the newly formed Content Delivery Network (CDN) Center of Excellence (CoE), shifting from a vendor-managed legacy model to a modern, automated, Multi-CDN ecosystem.
• Lead technical root-cause analysis (RCA) for high-priority production incidents, participate in on-call rotations, and build automated remediation scripts to prevent repeat issues.
• Maintain high system reliability through proactive monitoring and incident prevention.
• Establish and track CDN-specific SLOs/SLAs and implement alerting and proactive remediation.
• Evaluate emerging CDN technologies, tools, and performance optimization techniques.
• Serve as an active mentor and trainer to upskill internal systems and automation engineers.
• Develop internal documentation, playbooks, and training materials to elevate team capabilities
• Directly configure, deploy, and maintain landing zones and properties across Akamai, Cloudflare, Google Media CDN, GCP Cloud CDN, and Fastly, matching application workloads to fit-for-purpose CDN tiers.
• Develop modular, production-grade Terraform configurations and Ansible playbooks to automate CDN provisioning, origin mappings, WAF rules, and Bot Management policies, eliminating manual vendor UI updates.
• Build API-driven self-service capabilities and custom plugins for an internal developer portal (built on Backstage).
• Write front-end web components in React and backend APIs in Python (FastAPI/Flask) or Java to allow application teams to self-provision CDN properties and cache purges.
• Build and maintain declarative GitOps deployment pipelines using Tekton (Pipeline-as-Code) and GitHub Actions.
• Publish management APIs via Apigee, ensuring compliance with OpenAPI standards and 42Crunch security scans.
• Build telemetry pipelines and centralized dashboards using Splunk, Dynatrace, and Grafana to provide real-time visibility into global traffic, security events, and "Offload" efficiency.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience managing enterprise CDN platforms (Akamai, Cloudflare, Fastly, or Google Cloud CDN)
• Deep understanding of DNS, GTM, CNAME chaining, HTTP/2 & HTTP/3, TLS/SSL, Caching Headers, and Edge Computing
• Experience supporting SaaS environments

Preferred

• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (specifically GCP Cloud Run, GCP Transcoder API, GCP OpenShift/GKE clusters)
• Experience configuring CDN layers in front of Adobe Experience Manager (AEM / AEMaaCS)