Job Title:- Akamai System Engineer
Job Location:- Bothell WA (Onsite From day One - 5 Days/ week)
Job Type:- Contract
Key Roles and Responsibilities
Implement/Manage Akamai CDN Configurations for high-traffic customer-facing websites. Ensure optimal performance, reliability, and security.
Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with stakeholders to design, author,
implement, and test Akamai configuration changes in the preproduction environment.
Ensure smooth propagation of changes to production once validated. Technical Design Recommendations: Provide technical design recommendations and collaborate with Akamai professional services to assess the impact of changes
Maintenance Activities: Perform regular maintenance activities related to Akamai..
Performance and Web Acceleration: Apply advanced performance and web acceleration techniques to enhance the efficiency and speed of web services.
Tool Development and Maintenance: Create and maintain tools that interface with various Akamai features, ensuring seamless integration and functionality
Support and Troubleshooting: Be available to support Akamai-related events that may occur during off hours. Assist in troubleshooting customer or release-impacting incidents promptly
Required Qualifications
Must have 3+ years of level of real-world Akamai configuration experience managing
various Akamai features across multiple domains. Experience with large Akamai
security feature implementations 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
Experience with monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK stack, ability to understand metrics and impact to system performance Strong scripting and coding ability across multiple languages and technologies
Proven experience optimizing reliability and performance for large scale web hosting environments.
Willingness to work flexible hours, oncall as needed
• Strong analytical skills and ability to provide data driven recommendations for critical decision making mainly around edge configuration and improvement
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to present complex technical information in a clear manner to peers, developers, and leadership
Optional Qualifications
Experience with other CDNs. Ex. Fastly, Cloud Flare, Imperva, Cloud front, etc. Web based architecture design and development experience
Familiarity with HTML5, JavaScript frameworks, and CSS3
Linux Operating Systems experience
Experience in a technical leadership capacity team lead manager etc.
Please share your updated Resume on ambuj.shalya@tanishasystems.com