Looking for Senior CDN Engineer with Akamai _Need Independent candidates.

Role: Senior CDN Engineer

Location: Remote

Duration: Contract 6 -12 months

Start Date: 2 weeks from offer

Interview Process: 1 interview

Need to Share live location at the time of submission

These candidates need to be able to deploy and configure CDN tools (Akamai, specifically); ideally, they'd like to have experience with more than 1 tool, too.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting CDN, edge delivery, networking, or related infrastructure platforms.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Network Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Hands-on experience with Akamai technologies including:
• Property Manager
• Edge DNS
• Global Traffic Management (GTM)
• Cloudlets
• Bot Manager
• WAF and Security Products
• Working knowledge of Cloudflare or other enterprise CDN platforms.
• Experience building and maintaining automation frameworks using Python, Terraform, GitOps, Ansible, or similar Infrastructure-as-Code technologies.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, version control systems, and DevOps operational practices.
• Proficiency in two or more programming or scripting languages including Python, Node.js, Java, JavaScript, Shell Script, or PowerShell.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS/mTLS, proxies, load balancing, CDN routing, and application delivery.
• Experience working with REST APIs, Postman, API acceleration, API caching, API gateway integrations, and API security controls.
• Experience supporting cloud environments including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience working with distributed platforms, containers, Kubernetes, and edge computing technologies.
• Experience using observability and monitoring platforms such as Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, New Relic, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Azure Monitor, and Akamai TrafficPeak.
• Experience troubleshooting production issues across CDN, DNS, networking, cloud, application, and security layers.
• Experience implementing security controls including WAF, DDoS protection, Bot Management, certificate management, API security, and rate limiting.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise digital platforms and globally distributed web applications.
• Hands-on experience building or supporting real-time Single Page Applications (SPA).
• Experience leveraging AI, Generative AI, AIOps, or intelligent automation platforms to improve operational efficiency and incident response.
• Experience implementing self-healing automation, intelligent runbooks, and automated remediation workflows.
• Strong understanding of CDN traffic engineering, origin optimization, content caching strategies, performance tuning, and digital experience optimization.
• Experience building operational dashboards, alerts, SLIs, SLOs, and reliability-focused monitoring solutions.
• Experience integrating CDN solutions with ServiceNow, Jira, GitHub, Azure DevOps, SIEM tools, and cloud-native services.
• Strong technical expertise architecting secure, scalable, and highly available edge delivery solutions across multi-cloud environments.