Akamai Platform Engineer

Akamai Platform Engineer

Houston, TX Hybrid

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Summary outlining day to day responsibilities:

Defines, manages, and onboards applications to the Akamai platform.

Experience with CDN and Traffic Optimization expertise.

Strong web security & Edge protection skills.

This is a 6-month contract ending in January 2027

3-5 years of experience required

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Akamai Platform Engineer to support the management, optimization, and security of enterprise web applications delivered through the Akamai platform. This individual will play a key role in onboarding applications, enhancing performance, optimizing traffic delivery, and implementing security controls across a large-scale enterprise environment.

The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in Akamai technologies, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), edge security, web application protection, and traffic management. This is a hands-on engineering role that requires strong troubleshooting skills, stakeholder communication, and the ability to balance performance, availability, and security requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Administer, configure, and support the Akamai platform across multiple business-critical web applications.

Define and execute application onboarding activities for new and existing services.

Design and maintain Akamai delivery configurations to improve website performance, resiliency, and user experience.

Implement and manage CDN strategies to optimize content delivery and reduce latency.

Configure and maintain traffic management policies, load balancing rules, and routing strategies.

Support edge security initiatives including web application protection, DDoS mitigation, bot defense, and secure application delivery.

Collaborate with application owners, network teams, infrastructure teams, and cybersecurity stakeholders to deploy and support web-facing applications.

Monitor platform performance and proactively identify opportunities for optimization.

Troubleshoot application delivery issues, caching problems, SSL/TLS configurations, DNS challenges, and security incidents.

Develop documentation, standards, and operational procedures related to Akamai services.

Participate in change management and production support activities.

Required Qualifications

3+ years of experience supporting Akamai technologies in a production enterprise environment.

Hands-on experience with:

o Akamai CDN

o Akamai Property Manager

o Akamai Edge DNS

o Traffic optimization and routing

o Content caching strategies

o Web performance tuning