CDN Platform Engineer
Dearborn, MI - USA
Job Summary
Stefanini Group is hiring!
Stefanini is looking for CDN Platform Engineer Dearborn MI
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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 HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 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
- Bachelors Degree
**Listed salary ranges may vary based on experience qualifications and local market. Also some positions may include bonuses or other incentives***
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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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