Senior CDN Platform Engineer - Multi-CDN & Automation

HTC Global Services, Inc.; Dearborn, Northern (MI, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Career development opportunities

Wellness programs

Employee benefits

Job summary

HTC Global Services, Inc. is seeking a CDN Platform Engineer to design, implement, and operate enterprise CDN platforms across multiple providers. This hybrid role supports large-scale, customer-facing applications with on-site requirements one day per week.

You will lead complex CDN migrations, establish SLOs/SLAs, and mentor engineers while modernizing content delivery across global environments. Strong expertise in DNS, HTTP protocols, Terraform, Ansible, and API-driven tooling 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 configuring and maintaining landing zones and properties across major CDNs (Akamai, Cloudflare, Google Media CDN, GCP Cloud CDN, Fastly).
• Experience building modular Terraform configurations and Ansible playbooks for CDN provisioning, origin mappings, WAF rules, and Bot management.
• Experience building API-driven self-service capabilities and plugins for an internal developer portal (Backstage).
• Experience writing front-end components in React and backend APIs in Python (FastAPI/Flask) or Java.
• Experience implementing GitOps pipelines with Tekton and GitHub Actions.
• Experience publishing management APIs via Apigee and working with OpenAPI and 42Crunch security scans.
• Experience building telemetry pipelines and dashboards with Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana.
• SaaS experience.

Responsibilities

• Own CDN technology strategy and partner with application, network, and security teams.
• Build self-service capabilities in an internal developer portal.
• Execute global CDN migrations and enforce enterprise standards.
• Lead the CDN Center of Excellence and modernize to a multi-CDN ecosystem.

Skills

Akamai

DNS & HTTP/2/3

Terraform

Ansible

Backstage

React

Python

OpenAPI

Telemetry (Splunk/Grafana)

Tools

GCP

GitHub Actions

Tekton

Apigee

Job description

HTC Global Services, Inc. is seeking a CDN Platform Engineer to design, implement, and operate enterprise CDN platforms across multiple providers. This hybrid role supports large-scale, customer-facing applications with on-site requirements one day per week.

You will lead complex CDN migrations, establish SLOs/SLAs, and mentor engineers while modernizing content delivery across global environments. Strong expertise in DNS, HTTP protocols, Terraform, Ansible, and API-driven tooling is essential.