CDN Platform Engineer

Dearborn, MI

Full Time 

Overview / Summary

The CDN Platform Engineer is responsible for the design, implementation, optimization, and operational reliability of enterprise Content Delivery Network (CDN) platforms supporting large-scale, customer-facing digital applications. This role drives secure and highly available content delivery by managing CDN configurations, caching strategies, traffic routing, and edge security controls across distributed environments.

This is a hybrid role; remote candidates will be considered with one day per week onsite.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical owner and subject matter expert for CDN technologies, partnering with application, network, and security teams to implement scalable solutions.
• Build self-service capabilities within an internal developer portal.
• Execute complex global CDN migrations and enforce enterprise standards.
• Lead the technical transformation of global content delivery strategy and the CDN Center of Excellence (CoE), transitioning from a vendor-managed legacy model to a modern, automated Multi-CDN ecosystem.
• Lead technical root-cause analysis (RCA) for high-priority production incidents and participate in on-call rotations.
• Develop automated remediation scripts to prevent recurring 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.
• Mentor and train internal systems and automation engineers.
• Develop internal documentation, playbooks, and training materials to enhance team capabilities.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing enterprise CDN platforms, including 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.
• Direct experience configuring, deploying, and maintaining landing zones and properties across Akamai, Cloudflare, Google Media CDN, Google Cloud Platform Cloud CDN, and Fastly.
• Experience developing modular, production-grade Terraform configurations and Ansible playbooks to automate CDN provisioning, origin mappings, WAF rules, and Bot Management policies.
• Experience building API-driven self-service capabilities and custom plugins for an internal developer portal built on Backstage.
• Experience writing front-end web components in React and backend APIs using Python (FastAPI/Flask) or Java.
• Experience building and maintaining declarative GitOps deployment pipelines using Tekton (Pipeline-as-Code) and GitHub Actions.
• Experience publishing management APIs via Apigee and working with OpenAPI standards and 42Crunch security scans.
• Experience building telemetry pipelines and centralized dashboards using Splunk, Dynatrace, and Grafana.
• SaaS experience.
• Bachelor''s degree.

Preferred Qualifications

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