Senior Akamai Engineer

NTT DATA Services•Plano, TX

16h•$117,600 - $156,800

About The Position

The Senior Akamai Engineer designs, implements, operates, and optimizes enterprise Akamai solutions for highly available, secure, high-performing internet-facing applications and APIs. The role requires hands-on expertise with Akamai CDN, WAF, DNS, DDoS protection, bot management, API security, traffic management, and edge security, as well as knowledge of HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, TLS/SSL, web application architecture, networking, caching, APIs, security controls, and automation. The engineer works with application, network, cloud, cybersecurity, DevOps, and infrastructure teams to onboard applications to Akamai, implement security controls, resolve complex production issues, and improve application performance and security. The position also provides technical leadership, guidance, mentoring, engineering standards, and operational improvements. Production support and on-call participation may be required.

Requirements

7+ years of experience in CDN, network engineering, web infrastructure, cybersecurity, or related technologies, with strong hands-on Akamai experience.
Strong experience with Akamai CDN and Property Manager.
Hands-on experience with Akamai App & API Protector/WAF.
Experience with Akamai security and traffic-management capabilities.
Strong understanding of DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TCP/IP, TLS/SSL, certificates, proxies, load balancers, and firewalls.
Experience troubleshooting internet-facing web applications and APIs.
Strong understanding of caching, origin architecture, content delivery, and application acceleration.
Experience with Akamai APIs and CLI tools.
Working knowledge of Git and configuration/version-management practices.

Responsibilities

Design, configure, implement, and support enterprise Akamai solutions for internet-facing applications and APIs.
Manage and optimize CDN configurations, caching policies, origin connectivity, content delivery, redirects, and application acceleration.
Configure and maintain Akamai properties using Property Manager and related configuration capabilities.
Support application onboarding and migration to Akamai; develop reusable configuration patterns and standards.
Review, test, activate, validate, and deploy configurations across development, test, staging, and production environments.
Configure and manage Akamai App & API Protector/WAF policies and tune rules to address threats while reducing false positives.
Implement and maintain DDoS protection, rate controls, IP and geographic controls, reputation-based protections, API security policies, and bot detection and mitigation where applicable.
Partner with cybersecurity teams to investigate malicious traffic, application attacks, and emerging threats; review traffic patterns and recommend edge-security controls.
Configure and support Akamai DNS and traffic management; troubleshoot DNS, routing, latency, connectivity, and origin-server issues.
Configure traffic routing and failover strategies, and support certificate lifecycle management and secure TLS configurations.
Diagnose issues across client, edge, network, Akamai, load-balancer, and origin layers.
Analyze application performance and optimize cache behavior, TTLs, compression, redirects, origin connectivity, and edge delivery.
Analyze cache hit/miss behavior, identify opportunities to increase edge offload, and work with application teams to reduce unnecessary origin traffic.
Monitor Akamai platform and application performance and address performance degradation proactively.
Troubleshoot complex Akamai and application-delivery issues by analyzing response codes, headers, logs, DNS responses, TLS handshakes, caching behavior, and network traces.
Participate in major incident and problem management, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and production support/on-call activities where required.
Coordinate with Akamai support and engineering teams on complex product or platform issues.
Ensure configurations comply with enterprise cybersecurity policies, architecture standards, and security baselines for WAF, TLS, DNS, APIs, and edge configurations.
Support vulnerability remediation, security audits, change management, and compliance requirements.
Maintain configuration documentation, operational procedures, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides.
Serve as a subject-matter expert and provide technical guidance to application, infrastructure, cloud, DevOps, and security teams.
Lead technical reviews for complex application onboarding and Akamai architecture decisions; mentor junior and mid-level Akamai engineers.
Develop engineering standards, reference configurations, operational procedures, and best practices, and drive continuous improvement and automation.