CDN & Cloud Network Engineer (Akamai)

WHO WE ARE?

ALTEN – A Global Leader in Engineering and IT Services

Founded in France in 1988, the ALTEN Group is a leading technological partner serving the world’s largest clients. In 2023, it achieved revenues exceeding 4.07 billion euros and employs over 57,000 people, 88% of whom are engineers and IT experts.

ALTEN Polska has been operating for 13 years, supporting its clients' innovation, research and development, and IT systems. It has offices in Kraków, Warsaw, Wrocław, Gdańsk, and Poznań.

It serves key industries such as aerospace, space, industrial solutions, automotive, railway, energy, finance, telecommunications, and retail.

Areas of expertise : business analysis, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, data analysis and cloud solutions, application development, software testing, project management, embedded software, quality management, industrialization, digital transformation, and industrial engineering.

For more information, visit : http://www.altenpolska.pl

Location: Kraków (hybrid, 6 office visits/month)

What You’ll Do

• Own and optimize CDN configurations: caching strategy, request routing, origin failover, and performance tuning
• Design and implement end-to-end changes for CDN delivery
• Manage WAF policies: rule design, tuning, false-positive triage, and protection updates
• Respond to live attack traffic alongside cybersecurity teams
• Run DNS and global traffic management: regional routing, load balancing, and origin failover
• Maintain TLS certificates and secure delivery standards at the edge
• Configure and troubleshoot Azure networking: Application Gateway, load balancers, NSGs, DNS, and traffic routing
• Lead technical investigations for performance and availability issues
• Trace requests from browser to origin using logs, monitoring, and diagnostic tools
• Act as senior technical escalation during incidents and drive root cause analysis
• Review changes and designs from other engineers
• Share CDN and edge knowledge across the team
• Keep documentation, runbooks, and knowledge articles accurate and useful

Requirements

• 6–8 years of hands-on experience in edge infrastructure, CDN, and WAF
• Deep, current hands-on experience running Akamai in production at scale
• Hands-on experience operating Akamai WAF (App & API Protector or Kona)
• Strong understanding of HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, DNS, caching behavior, headers, and the full request path
• Ability to debug using HAR files, curl output, or edge logs
• Solid Azure networking experience: application gateways, load balancers, NSGs, DNS, and traffic routing
• Proven ability to diagnose complex production issues across edge, network, and application layers
• Ability to produce clear technical documentation and explain edge behavior
• Experience with bot management and DDoS mitigation
• Experience operating in regulated environments with security and operational risk controls
• Multi-CDN experience (e.g., CloudFront, Cloudflare, Tencent) or CDN migrations
• Terraform (Akamai provider) and CI/CD pipeline experience
• Experience managing configurations through APIs or infrastructure as code

We offer:

We offer a full-time employment contract

• Location – Kraków; work model – hybrid
• Stable and long-term cooperation
• Well-defined career path at the European leader in engineering & IT consulting
• Participation in company conferences, trainings, workshops, integration meetings, etc.
• Certification and training opportunities
• Opportunity to relocate and work in different ALTEN Polska branches
• After completion of the project, opportunity to engage in a subsequent one within the company
• Introduction and cooperation with dedicated Competences Manager

Benefits

• Medicover medical care
• Medicover dental care
• Medicover Benefits platform
• Medicover Sport card
• Referral Program
• Layette for a newborn employee’s child
• Group life insurance
• Pension scheme

We also offer cooperation based on a B2B or Contract of mandate (UZ). As part of this cooperation, you may have the opportunity to:

• Access the Medicover Sport program on a self-funded basis
• Access the Medicover Platform
• Access Allianz insurance option on a self-funded basis
• Access expert’s support from Competences Center and Practices & Expertise functions
• Support additional business initiatives (PoCs, client engagements, and technical assessments) under a separately agreed scope
• Access to professional certifications with our technology partners (e.g. Google, ISTQB)
• Participate in relevant industry events
• Participate in the Knowledge Sharing Program
• Participate in Referral program
• Continue cooperation through subsequent projects, after completion of the project

Join our team and let’s build tomorrow’s world today!

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