Senior Content Delivery Network (CDN) Engineer

Title: Content Delivery Network (CDN) with Akamai, Cloudflare, Google Media CDN, GCP Cloud CDN Experience (only W2 Position – No C2C Accepted)

Description: STG is a SEI CMMi Level 5 company with several Fortune 500 and State Government clients. STG has an opening for Content Delivery Network (CDN) with Akamai, Cloudflare, Google Media CDN, GCP Cloud CDN (only W2 Position – No C2C Accepted)

Please note that this project assignment is with our own direct clients. We do not go through any vendors. STG only does business with direct end clients. This is expected to be a long-term position. STG will provide immigration and permanent residency sponsorship assistance to those candidates who need it.

Position Description:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Maintain high system reliability through proactive monitoring and incident prevention. Establish and track CDN-specific SLOs/SLAs and implement alerting and proactive remediation.
5. Evaluate emerging CDN technologies, tools, and performance optimization techniques.
6. 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

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Technical Qualifications:

1. Multi-CDN Strategy & Implementation: Directly configure, deploy, and maintain landing zones and properties across Akamai, Cloudflare, Google Media CDN, GCP Cloud CDN, and Fastly, matching application workloads to fit-for-purpose CDN tiers.

2. Infrastructure as Code (IaC): 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.

3. Self-Service Tooling & Portal Integration: 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.

4. CI/CD Pipelines & API Security: 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.

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

Skills Required:

• SaaS

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• Content Management
• Engineer 3 Content Delivery Network (CDN) Expertise: 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.
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (specifically GCP Cloud Run, GCP Transcoder API, GCP OpenShift/GKE clusters). CMS/AEM Integration: Experience configuring CDN layers in front of Adobe Experience Manager (AEM / AEMaaCS).
• Content Delivery Network (CDN) Platform Engineer is 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 Hybrid role will consider remote candidates also 1 day a week onsite

Education Required:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification in computer science, engineering or related disciplines

Content Delivery Network (CDN) with Akamai, Cloudflare, Google Media CDN, GCP Cloud CDN Experience is based in Dearborn, MI. A great opportunity to experience the corporate environment leading personal career growth.

Resume Submittal Instructions: Interested/qualified candidates should email their word formatted resumes to Vasavi Konda – vasavi.konda(.@)stgit.com and/or contact @(Two-Four-Eight) Seven- One-Two – Six-Seven-Two-Five (@248.712.6725). In the subject line of the email please include: First and Last Name: Content Delivery Network (CDN) with Akamai, Cloudflare, Google Media CDN, GCP Cloud CDN Experience.

For more information about STG, please visit us at www.stgit.com.

Sincerely,

Vasavi Konda| Recruiting Specialist

“Opportunities don't happen, you create them.”

Systems Technology Group (STG)

3001 W. Big Beaver Road, Suite 500

Troy, Michigan 48084

Phone: @(Two-Four-Eight) Seven- One-Two – Six-Seven-Two-Five: @248.712.6725(O)

Email: vasavi.konda(.@)stgit.com