Senior CDN Engineer

TPI Global Solutions; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

TPI Global Solutions in San Jose, CA, seeks a Senior CDN Engineer to design, configure, and secure enterprise content delivery using Akamai. You will work across web, application, network, security, and vendor teams to deliver reliable global services.

Responsibilities include optimizing performance, automating deployments, troubleshooting latency and uptime, and leading incident response with a strong emphasis on SSO integrations and security controls.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in CDN, web infra, app delivery, web security, or SRE.
• Production Akamai experience in an enterprise setting.
• Strong troubleshooting, automation, documentation, and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain Akamai CDN architecture for public sites, APIs, and software downloads.
• Configure Property Manager, edge hostnames, origins, caching rules, routing, redirects, and activation workflows.
• Tune Bot Manager and Fraud controls to manage automated traffic.
• Support App & API Protector, WAF, DDoS mitigation, Site Shield/ Defender, and security exceptions.
• Manage Akamai NetStorage and automate large file downloads synchronization.
• Improve performance via cache headers, keys, TTLs, edge caching, API acceleration, and origin offload.
• Use Control Center, Traffic Reports, Security Center, Edge Diagnostics, mPulse, and logs to monitor services.
• Troubleshoot latency, cache misses, origin health, DNS, TLS, HTTP errors, and uptime issues.
• Create monitoring dashboards and alerts for traffic, bots, and SLA compliance.
• Automate CDN tasks using Akamai APIs, Python, GitHub, Jenkins, Terraform, Bash or PowerShell.
• Support identity integrations for Akamai admin with SSO technologies (SAML, Okta).
• Lead production changes, release support, incident response, and knowledge transfer.

Skills

Akamai CDN

Edge caching

DevOps automation

Incident leadership

Monitoring analytics

SSO integrations

CI/CD tooling

Global web apps

Cross-team communication

Security controls

Tools

Python

Git

Jenkins

REST APIs

Terraform

Bash

PowerShell

Job description

The Senior CDN Engineer will design, configure, secure, automate, monitor, and support enterprise content delivery services using Akamai. The role supports high-traffic public websites, APIs, and software downloads, with a strong focus on Akamai Property Manager, edge caching, Bot Manager, App & API Protector, NetStorage, web performance, and production reliability. The engineer will work across web, application, network, security, and vendor teams to deliver secure and reliable global services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and maintain Akamai CDN architecture for public websites, APIs, portals, and software downloads.
• Configure Akamai Property Manager, edge hostnames, origins, caching rules, routing rules, redirects, compression, Tiered Distribution, and activation workflows.
• Configure and tune Akamai Bot Manager and Fraud Management controls to detect, allow, rate-limit, challenge, or block automated traffic.
• Support Akamai App & API Protector, Web Application Firewall rules, rate controls, DDoS mitigation, Site Shield or Site Defender, and security exceptions.
• Manage Akamai NetStorage and automate the publishing or synchronization of large software and product downloads.
• Improve website and download performance by tuning cache headers, cache keys, time-to-live values, edge caching, API acceleration, and origin offload.
• Use Akamai Control Center, Traffic Reports, Security Center, Edge Diagnostics, mPulse, Web Security Analytics, and log delivery data to monitor and troubleshoot services.
• Troubleshoot regional latency, cache misses, origin health, DNS, TLS certificates, HTTP errors, website availability, API delivery, and download failures.
• Create monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and thresholds for traffic spikes, bot activity, DDoS events, origin health, and service-level compliance.
• Automate CDN and content-delivery tasks using Akamai APIs, Python, GitHub, Jenkins CI/CD, Terraform, Bash, PowerShell, or similar tools.
• Support identity and access integrations for Akamai administration, including enterprise SSO technologies such as SAML and Okta.
• Lead production changes, release support, incident response, root-cause analysis, vendor escalations, documentation, and knowledge transfer.

Required Skills:

• Advanced hands-on experience with Akamai CDN, Property Manager, Control Center, edge caching, routing rules, and origin configuration.
• Hands-on experience with Akamai Bot Manager or Fraud Management, bot classification, mitigation policies, tuning, reporting, and false-positive management.
• Experience with Akamai App & API Protector, WAF, DDoS mitigation, Site Shield or Site Defender, rate limiting, and web security analytics.
• Experience with Akamai NetStorage, large-file or software-download delivery, and automated content synchronization.
• Experience with cache optimization, Tiered Distribution, API acceleration, origin offload, regional performance analysis, and web performance metrics.
• Experience using Akamai Traffic Reports, Security Center, Edge Diagnostics, mPulse, log delivery, or comparable monitoring and analytics tools.
• Automation and DevOps experience using REST APIs, Python, Git, Jenkins or another CI/CD platform, and infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Experience supporting high-traffic production websites, customer portals, APIs, or globally distributed applications.
• Ability to lead complex incident troubleshooting and communicate clearly with application, network, security, and business teams.

Qualifications:

• 7 or more years of relevant experience in CDN, web infrastructure, application delivery, web security, software engineering, or site reliability engineering.
• Several years of hands-on experience supporting Akamai in a production enterprise environment.
• Strong troubleshooting, automation, documentation, communication, and cross-team collaboration skills.