Platform Engineering Engineer 3

• Location: Dearborn, Michigan
• Type: Contract
• Job #105920

Position: Content Delivery Network (CDN) Platform Engineer

Location: Dearborn, MI (Hybrid)

Employment Type: Full-Time Contract

Pay: $61-64 per hour

Description: You will be 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.

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

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree
• 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 supporting SaaS environments

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)
• Experience configuring CDN layers in front of Adobe Experience Manager (AEM / AEMaaCS)

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