CDN&Cloud Network Engineer

Antal is a leading recruitment and HR advisory company, present in Poland since 1996 and later expanded to the Czech Republic and Hungary. Across the CEE region, we employ around 150 professionals who deliver a full range of services – from specialist and executive recruitment, employee outsourcing and HR consulting, to employer branding and market research. Our division-based structure combines deep industry expertise with functional specialisation, enabling us to provide tailored solutions for companies in every sector.

• Hands-on administration of Akamai CDN in production, including Property Manager, caching strategies, request routing, origin management, and performance optimization.
• Operating Akamai WAF (App & API Protector or Kona), including policy design, tuning, false-positive management, and responding to production attack traffic.
• Strong understanding of HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, DNS, caching behaviour, headers, and the complete request lifecycle from client to origin.
• Comfortable diagnosing issues using HAR files, curl, browser developer tools, and edge logs.
• Experience with Azure networking, including Application Gateway, Load Balancers, NSGs, DNS, and traffic routing.
• Experience troubleshooting complex production issues across edge, network, and application layers.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and produce high-quality documentation for engineering and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have:

• Bot management and DDoS mitigation.
• Experience with multi-CDN environments such as CloudFront, Cloudflare, or Tencent CDN.
• Terraform (including the Akamai provider) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Infrastructure as Code and API-driven configuration management.
• Experience working within highly regulated enterprise environments with strong operational and security controls.

• Own CDN delivery across a large-scale public web estate, including caching strategy, request routing, origin management, failover, and performance optimization.
• Manage and continuously improve Akamai WAF policies, including rule design, tuning, false-positive analysis, protection updates, and supporting live security incidents.
• Configure and operate DNS and Global Traffic Management for resilient routing, regional traffic distribution, load balancing, and high availability.
• Manage TLS certificates and maintain secure delivery standards across the edge platform.
• Configure and troubleshoot Azure networking components including Application Gateway, Load Balancers, NSGs, DNS, and traffic routing between edge and origin.
• Investigate complex production issues by tracing requests from browser through CDN and network layers to backend services, using logs, monitoring platforms, HAR files, curl, and diagnostic tools.
• Act as a senior technical escalation point during incidents impacting availability, performance, or edge security, driving root cause analysis and long-term improvements.
• Review technical designs and implementation changes, contribute engineering best practices, and share knowledge across the wider engineering team.
• Maintain clear technical documentation, operational runbooks, and knowledge articles.