Platform Engineer (W2)

Job Title: Platform Engineer (W2)

Location: Dearborn, MI

Duration: 6-12 Months

W2 Role | Onsite Interview

Position Description:

Key Responsibilities:

•       Serve as the technical owner and subject matter expert for CDN technologies, partnering with applications, network, and security teams to implement scalable solutions, build self-service capabilities within an internal developer portal, execute complex global migrations and enforce enterprise standards.

•       Lead the technical transformation of global content delivery strategy and the newly formed Content Delivery Network (CDN) Center of Excellence (CoE), shifting from a vendor-managed legacy model to a modern, automated, Multi-CDN ecosystem.

•       Lead technical root-cause analysis (RCA) for high-priority production incidents, participate in on-call rotations, and build automated remediation scripts to prevent repeat issues.

•       Maintain high system reliability through proactive monitoring and incident prevention. Establish and track CDN-specific SLOs/SLAs and implement alerting and proactive remediation.

•       Evaluate emerging CDN technologies, tools, and performance optimization techniques.

•       Serve as an active mentor and trainer to upskill internal systems and automation engineers. Develop internal documentation, playbooks, and training materials to elevate team capabilities

Technical Qualifications:

•       Multi-CDN Strategy & Implementation: Directly configure, deploy, and maintain landing zones and properties across Akamai, Cloudflare, Google Media CDN, Google Cloud Platform Cloud CDN, and Fastly, matching application workloads to fit-for-purpose CDN tiers.

•       Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Develop modular, production-grade Terraform configurations and Ansible playbooks to automate CDN provisioning, origin mappings, WAF rules, and Bot Management policies, eliminating manual vendor UI updates.

•       Self-Service Tooling & Portal Integration: Build API-driven self-service capabilities and custom plugins for an internal developer portal (built on Backstage). Write front-end web components in React and backend APIs in Python (FastAPI/Flask) or Java to allow application teams to self-provision CDN properties and cache purges.

•       CI/CD Pipelines & API Security: Build and maintain declarative GitOps deployment pipelines using Tekton (Pipeline-as-Code) and GitHub Actions. Publish management APIs via Apigee, ensuring compliance with OpenAPI standards and 42Crunch security scans.

•       Observability & Telemetry: Build telemetry pipelines and centralized dashboards using Splunk, Dynatrace, and Grafana to provide real-time visibility into global traffic, security events, and "Offload" efficiency.

Skills Required:

•       SaaS

Skills Preferred:

•       Content Management

Experience Required:

•       Engineer 3 Content Delivery Network (CDN) Expertise: 5+ years of experience 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 Preferred:

•       Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform) (specifically Google Cloud Platform Cloud Run, Google Cloud Platform Transcoder API, Google Cloud Platform OpenShift/GKE clusters). CMS/AEM Integration: Experience configuring CDN layers in front of Adobe Experience Manager (AEM / AEMaaCS).

Education Required:

•       Bachelor''s Degree

Additional Information:

•       Content Delivery Network (CDN) Platform Engineer is responsible for the design, implementation, optimization, and operational reliability of enterprise CDN platforms supporting large-scale, customer-facing digital applications.

•       This role drives the delivery of secure and highly available content by managing CDN configurations, caching strategies, traffic routing, and edge security controls across distributed environments

Thanks & Regards.

Aviral Sapra

Voto Consulting LLC

Direct #:

North Brunswick, NJ, 08902