Senior Akamai Platform Engineer — CDN, WAF & Edge Security

5401 Digital Media Innovations, LLC; Woburn (MA); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits eligible

Flexible work options

Job summary

Equiniti is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead our Web Reliability Team in Woburn, MA, focusing on Akamai CDN/WAF management, traffic analysis, bot mitigation, DDoS protection, and optimization. You will partner with engineering, security, and DevOps to deliver secure, scalable edge services.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, automation via Terraform, API integrations, and proactive reliability improvements for internet-facing applications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field.
• 5+ years of CDN, web infrastructure, SRE, or web security experience.
• Strong understanding of HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, TLS, and caching.
• Hands-on with CDN, WAF, DDoS and web security technologies.
• Experience with Terraform and API-driven automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage enterprise-scale Akamai CDN, WAF, DNS, Edge Security, and TLS/Certificate Management solutions.
• Serve as the primary technical expert for Akamai platform administration, including onboarding applications, policy management, traffic optimization, security configuration, and troubleshooting.
• Configure, maintain, and optimize Akamai WAF policies, bot protection, rate controls, custom rules, and edge security controls.
• Manage large-scale CDN delivery configurations, caching strategies, traffic routing, performance optimization, and high-availability architectures.
• Administer and automate certificate lifecycle management, including provisioning, rotation, validation, renewals, and compliance requirements.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform to automate Akamai configurations and infrastructure deployments.
• Build integrations and automation using Akamai APIs and other platform APIs to reduce manual operational activities.
• Design and implement self-service capabilities that enable development teams to provision and manage edge platform resources securely and efficiently.
• Develop custom tooling, services, and automation frameworks using modern programming languages.
• Establish and maintain SRE practices including observability, monitoring, alerting, incident management, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Collaborate with security teams to implement best practices for application protection, vulnerability mitigation, and edge security governance.
• Perform performance analysis, capacity planning, root cause analysis, and continuous reliability improvements for internet-facing applications.
• Participate in operational support, incident response, post-incident reviews, and reliability engineering initiatives.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance for application onboarding, architecture reviews, and platform modernization efforts.

Skills

SRE practices

Terraform scripting

Akamai platform administration

APIs integration

Observability and Monitoring

Edge security governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field

Tools

Akamai

TLS/Certificate Management

Git

Job description

Equiniti is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead our Web Reliability Team in Woburn, MA, focusing on Akamai CDN/WAF management, traffic analysis, bot mitigation, DDoS protection, and optimization. You will partner with engineering, security, and DevOps to deliver secure, scalable edge services.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, automation via Terraform, API integrations, and proactive reliability improvements for internet-facing applications.