Strategic Platforms Infrastructure Operations team is looking for a passionate Akamai Systems Engineer. This role is needed to adequately support Akamai configuration for hundreds of Telecommunication applications and domains setup in the Akamai CDN.
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
Sanidhya Shukla
Technical Recruiter
Email : Sanidhya.Shukla@artech.com
