Akamai CDN Engineer

3 weeks ago


Dallas, United States Metasys Technologies, Inc. Full time

Systems Engineer

11+Month Contract

Bothell, WA (onsite)


Key Roles and Responsibilities

• This role would be responsible for managing Akamai CDN configurations for high traffic highly iterative customer facing websites.

• Work with stakeholders to design, author, implement, and test Akamai changes in preproduction environment and ultimately once complete propagate to production.

• Provide technical design and architectural leadership and work hand-in-hand with Akamai professional services to assess impacts of changes

• Apply Performance, web acceleration techniques

• Help setup and maintain reports related to traffic and usage data, dashboards for usage and performance and documentation designed to help inform and notify stakeholders.

• Create and maintain tools interfacing with various Akamai features.

• Perform Akamai related maintenance activities on a regular basis.

• Be “on-call” for Akamai related events that could occur during off hours and be available for helping troubleshoot customer or release impacting incidents.

• Research, analyze and recommend new technologies, rationalization opportunities, standard processes, tools and techniques to further the firm’s application and enterprise technology architecture strategies.


Required Qualifications

• Must have 3 years of level of real world Akamai configuration experience managing various Akamai features across multiple domains. Experience with other CDNs considered. Ex. Fastly, CloudFlare, Imperva, Cloudfront, etc.

• Experience with monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK stack, ability to understand metrics and impact to system performance, and ability to build dashboards and alerts to ensure system reliability.

• Experience with Siteshield and other Akamai security features.

• Strong scripting and coding ability across multiple languages and technologies

• Willingness to work flexible hours, oncall as needed.

• Proven experience optimizing reliability and performance and scaling technical infrastructure in a fast paced and collaborative environment

• Strong analytical skills and ability to provide data driven recommendations for critical decision making, mainly around system reconfiguration and improvement

• 5+ years of progressive experience in cloud engineering, site reliability, devops, system infrastructure, or a related technical role

• 5+ years of experience building and/or supporting web applications

• 5+ years of Linux Operating Systems experience including scripting

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to present complex technical information in a clear manner to peers, developers, and senior leaders


Optional Qualifications

• Internet security related experience

• Experience in performance tuning and application monitoring

• Experience in architecture and design of web based architecture

• Experience in a technical leadership capacity - team lead/manager etc.

• Experience in cloud technologies: AWS, Azure, etc. • Familiarity with HTML5, JavaScript frameworks, and CSS3

• Internet security related experience

• Experience in performance tuning and application monitoring

• Experience in architecture and design of web based architecture

• Experience in a technical leadership capacity - team lead/manager etc.

• Experience in cloud technologies: AWS, Azure, etc.

• Familiarity with HTML5, JavaScript frameworks, and CSS3


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