CLOUD-Application-Architecture

Key responsibilities

Own CDN delivery configurations across a large public web estate caching strategy request routing origin failover and performance tuning designing leading and implementing changes end to end

Own WAF policy across the estate rule design and tuning falsepositive triage protection updates and handson response during live attack traffic working alongside cybersecurity

Run DNS and global traffic management including regional routing load balancing and failover between origins

Manage TLS certificates and secure delivery standards at the edge

Configure and troubleshoot the cloud networking that fronts our origins Application Gateway load balancers NSGs DNS and traffic routing

Lead technical investigation of complex performance and availability issues tracing requests from browser through edge to origin using logs monitoring and diagnostic tooling

Act as senior technical escalation during incidents affecting traffic availability or edge security and drive root cause analysis so problems dont come back

Review changes and designs from other engineers and share edge and CDN knowledge across the team

Keep documentation runbooks and knowledge articles accurate and useful

Required qualifications and requirements

Essential

Deep current handson experience running Akamai in production at scale property configuration caching routing origin management You should be comfortable opening a property and knowing exactly what it does

Handson experience operating Akamai WAF App API Protector or Kona policy design and tuning falsepositive management and working through real attack traffic not just reviewing dashboards

Strong command of how the web actually works HTTPHTTPS TLS DNS caching behaviour headers and the full request path from client to origin You can debug from a HAR file curl output or edge logs

Solid cloud networking experience application gateways load balancers NSGs DNS and traffic routing between edge and origin

A track record of diagnosing hard production issues across edge network and application layers

Ability to produce clear technical documentation and explain edge behaviour to engineers and business stakeholders

Desirable

Experience with major cloud providers Azure is a plus

Bot management and DDoS mitigation experience

MultiCDN experience eg CloudFront Cloudflare Tencent and CDN migrations

Terraform Akamai provider and CICD pipeline experience

Experience operating within security and operational risk controls in regulated environments

Experience managing configuration through APIs or infrastructure as code