CDN Platform Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Stefanini Group is hiring!

Stefanini is looking for CDN Platform Engineer , Dearborn, MI

For quick apply, please reach out to Fardeen Ali at View phone number on ziprecruiter.com/View email address on ziprecruiter.com

The 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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.
• Lead the technical transformation of the 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.
• 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.
• Maintain high system reliability through proactive monitoring and incident prevention. Establish and track CDN-specific SLOs/SLAs and implement alerting and proactive remediation.
• Evaluate emerging CDN technologies, tools, and performance optimization techniques.
• 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.




Skills Required

SaaS

Skills Preferred

Content Management

Experience Required

• 5+ years of experience managing enterprise CDN platforms, including Akamai, Cloudflare, Fastly, or Google Cloud CDN.
• Deep understanding of DNS, GTM, CNAME chaining, and TLS/SSL, caching headers, and edge computing.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Experience Preferred

• 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).

Education Required

Bachelor's Degree

**Listed salary ranges may vary based on experience, qualifications, and local market. Also, some positions may include bonuses or other incentives***

Stefanini takes pride in hiring top talent and developing relationships with our future employees. Our talent acquisition teams will never make an offer of employment without having a phone conversation with you. Those face-to-face conversations will involve a description of the job for which you have applied. We will also speak with you about the process, including interviews and job offers.

About Stefanini Group

The Stefanini Group is a global provider of offshore, onshore and near shore outsourcing, IT digital consulting, systems integration, application, and strategic staffing services to Fortune 1000 enterprises around the world. Our presence is in countries like the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and more than four hundred clients across a broad spectrum of markets, including financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, chemical services, technology, public sector, and utilities. Stefanini is a CMM level 5, IT consulting company with a global presence. We are a CMM Level 5 company.

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