Hybrid CDN Platform Engineer & Automation Lead

HTC Global Services; Dearborn (MI); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

HTC Global Services is seeking a CDN Platform Engineer to design, implement, and operate scalable, enterprise CDN platforms across distributed environments. This hybrid role will consider remote candidates with one day onsite in Dearborn, MI.

You will own CDN tech, automate provisioning with Terraform and Ansible, build self-service in Backstage, and lead multi-CDN migrations while enforcing security and reliability standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years managing enterprise CDN platforms (Akamai, Cloudflare, Fastly, or Google Cloud CDN).
• Deep understanding of DNS, GTM, CNAME chaining, HTTP/2/3, TLS/SSL, caching headers, and edge computing.
• Experience provisioning across Akamai, Cloudflare, Google Media CDN, GCP Cloud CDN, and Fastly.
• Experience automating CDN provisioning with Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience building API-driven self-service capabilities and plugins (Backstage).
• Experience frontend (React) and backend APIs (Python/Java).

Responsibilities

• Serve as SME for CDN technologies and partner with application, network, and security teams.
• Lead migrations and enforce enterprise standards in a multi-CDN ecosystem.
• Build self-service capabilities in an internal developer portal (Backstage).
• Develop automated remediation scripts and proactive monitoring for reliability.
• Mentor engineers and develop training materials; maintain runbooks and playbooks.
• Establish CDN-specific SLOs/SLAs and drive incident RCA participation.

Skills

CDN platform management

Akamai

Cloudflare

Fastly

GCP CDN

DNS, GTM, CNAME

OpenAPI

React

Python/Java

GitOps (Tekton, GitHub Actions)

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Backstage

OpenAPI/Swagger

GitHub Actions

Tekton

Splunk/Grafana/Dynatrace

Job description

HTC Global Services is seeking a CDN Platform Engineer to design, implement, and operate scalable, enterprise CDN platforms across distributed environments. This hybrid role will consider remote candidates with one day onsite in Dearborn, MI.

You will own CDN tech, automate provisioning with Terraform and Ansible, build self-service in Backstage, and lead multi-CDN migrations while enforcing security and reliability standards.