Senior CDN and Cloud Networking Engineer

Our client is a leading institution managing an extensive web estate and digital security operations, focusing on enterprise-level edge networks and cloud connectivity.

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Akamai in large-scale production environments
• Proven expertise operating Akamai WAF (App & API Protector or Kona), including policy design, tuning, and attack response
• Strong understanding of HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, DNS, caching, headers, and full request path debugging
• Solid Azure networking skills including application gateways, load balancers, NSGs, DNS, and traffic routing
• Track record diagnosing complex production issues across edge, network, and application layers
• Ability to document and communicate edge behavior clearly to technical and non-technical audiences

Nice to have:

• Bot management and DDoS mitigation experience
• Multi-CDN experience (e.g., Cloudflare, CloudFront, Tencent) or CDN migrations
• Infrastructure as code expertise with Terraform (Akamai provider) or familiarity with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience operating within security and operational risk frameworks in regulated environments
• API-driven configuration management skills

• Own CDN delivery configurations including caching, request routing, origin failover, and performance tuning
• Manage WAF policies by designing rules, tuning defenses, triaging false positives, and responding to live attack traffic
• Oversee DNS and global traffic management with regional routing, load balancing, and failover strategies
• Manage TLS certificates and ensure secure delivery standards
• Troubleshoot Azure networking components such as Application Gateway, load balancers, NSGs, DNS, and traffic routing
• Lead complex performance and availability investigations from browser to origin
• Act as senior escalation during incidents related to traffic, availability, or security to drive root cause analysis
• Collaborate with engineering teams to review configuration changes, share expertise on edge and CDN best practices, and produce documentation

Only candidates with a legal right to work in the European Union will be considered for this role.