CDN / Web Platform Engineer-devops

• Location is Remote
• Experience : 7+

CDN / Web Platform Engineer

Senior individual contributor | Web infrastructure, edge delivery,

automation, and performance

Role Summary

The CDN / Web Platform Engineer owns the delivery infrastructure that securely builds,

deploys, accelerates, and operates high-traffic web applications. This hands-on role

spans CDN configuration, edge computing, CI/CD automation, web performance,

production change management, and incident support. The engineer works

independently and partners with application, cloud, security, and operations teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain CDN configurations for routing, origins, failover, caching,

compression, redirects, headers, security controls, error handling, and staged

activations.

• Develop, test, deploy, and troubleshoot JavaScript-based edge functions and

edge data stores supporting routing, authentication, localization, token handling,

and API integration.

• Build and operate Jenkins and GitHub Actions pipelines covering builds, tests,

security scans, quality gates, deployments, secrets, schedules, and environment

approvals.

• Maintain configuration parity across environments; plan rollbacks; support

release cutovers; execute controlled production changes; and resolve CDN and

edge-platform incidents.

• Monitor Core Web Vitals and improve caching, resource loading, third-party

scripts, image and font delivery, TLS, HTTP protocols, and edge latency.

• Integrate code-quality, SAST, and SCA controls into delivery pipelines and

coordinate remediation with security and engineering teams.

• Maintain architecture documentation, runbooks, environment standards, redirect

guidance, readiness checklists, and incident procedures.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years in web infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or a related field,

including 3+ years of hands-on CDN or edge-platform engineering.

• Strong experience with Akamai or a comparable CDN, including caching, origin

configuration, rule management, activations, and live-edge troubleshooting.

• Experience with edge compute, edge key-value storage, and large-scale redirect

management.

• Proficiency in modern JavaScript and strong knowledge of DNS, TLS, HTTP,

caching headers, CORS, cookies, proxies, and redirect chains.

• Experience with Jenkins pipelines, GitHub Actions, Git branching, secrets,

scheduled workflows, and multi-environment releases.

• Practical experience with automated testing, code quality, SAST, and SCA tools.
• Ability to execute and roll back production changes independently and produce

clear technical documentation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Akamai Property Manager, EdgeWorkers, EdgeKV, Cloudlets,

Sandbox, purge, reporting, and CLI tooling.

• Familiarity with Adobe Experience Manager, AWS delivery services, OAuth

2.0/OpenID Connect, and SEO or locale routing at the edge.

• Experience with Node.js, Deno, shell scripting, Java, Maven, or multi-CDN

operations.Role & responsibilities

Preferred candidate profile