Job Title

Senior Platform Engineer - CDN & Akamai

Role in the Team

Were looking for a Senior Platform Engineer with deep Akamai expertise to own IGs edge delivery estate and change how its run. Today, much of our Akamai configuration is managed by hand through Control Center. Your mandate is to move it into code: Terraform modules, version-controlled rule trees, and GitLab pipelines with the automated checks and guardrails that let application teams request and ship their own edge changes safely. Youll be the expert other engineers come to, and the person who steadily reduces how often they need to.

What youll do

Automate the estate and enable self-service

- Lead the migration of Akamai configuration from manual Control Center changes to a Terraform-first workflow, building reusable, well-documented modules for properties, rule trees, and DNS that other teams can safely consume
- Build self-service paths for routine edge changes - new hostnames, redirects, caching rules - wrapped in policy checks, automated validation, and staging tests that catch mistakes before they reach production
- Integrate edge configuration into GitLab CI/CD alongside ServiceNow change control, so every property and DNS change is peer-reviewed, tested, and promoted through environments the same way each time
- Build tooling around Akamais APIs (Python, Bash) that removes repetitive operational work - bulk changes, certificate expiry checks, drift detection, and inventory reporting.

Own edge delivery and routing

- Own the design, configuration, and operational health of IGs Akamai estate across staging and production networks, in line with change control
- Design and maintain URL redirection, rewrite, and forwarding logic - 301/302, host- and path-based, and Cloudlet-driven - across IGs public and internal domains, rationalising inherited redirect chains as you go
- Configure routing and origin behaviour, including edge hostnames, CP codes, conditional and dynamic origin selection, failover, and load balancing to support multi-origin, multi-region delivery




- Set caching and delivery strategy - compression, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, image and video delivery, API acceleration - and run purge and cache invalidation workflows that support release and incident response
- Support multi-CDN and failover strategy through Global Traffic Management, and contribute to disaster recovery and resilience planning for edge delivery.

Secure and govern the edge

- Configure and tune edge security controls - Site Shield, network lists and IP allow-listing, WAF, and bot mitigation - as traffic patterns and threats evolve
- Manage the SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle for edge properties in coordination with Venafi, ensuring certificates reach the edge well ahead of expiry
- Maintain an auditable inventory of properties, hostnames, certificates, and CP codes, and lead periodic reviews that surface and remediate configuration drift and stale entries.

Diagnose, partner, and share

- Diagnose complex delivery, routing, and performance incidents using Edge Diagnostics, debug and pragma headers, mPulse, and reporting APIs - tracing an issue from DNS resolution through edge and origin behaviour to root cause, then closing the gap that allowed it
- Partner with Platform Managers and application teams to translate hosting and delivery requirements into configuration that is secure, performant, and maintainable, and spread edge knowledge across the wider platform organisation

What youll need

Experience level: 5+ years in CDN and edge delivery engineering, with deep hands-on Akamai expertise and a strong infrastructure-as-code background.

- Deep Akamai expertise - property creation, versioning, rule tree configuration,



and activation across staging and production via Property Manager (Control Center and PAPI), with the judgement to know which logic belongs at the edge and which doesnt
- Automation and infrastructure-as-code - hands-on with the Akamai Terraform Provider, writing reusable modules that others actually adopt; GitLab CI/CD pipeline experience; and scripting in Python or Bash to automate against vendor APIs
- Routing, DNS, and traffic management - edge hostnames, CP codes, origin and failover behaviour, conditional origins, and traffic steering, with working knowledge of Edge DNS and/or Global Traffic Management for resolution, load balancing, and multi-region routing
- Redirection and rewrite strategy - host- and path-based redirects, rewrites, and Cloudlet policies (Edge Redirector, Forward Rewrite, Visitor Prioritization), including untangling legacy redirect logic without breaking live traffic
- Edge security and certificates - Site Shield, network lists, WAF and bot mitigation, plus SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle management (ideally with Venafi) and a solid grasp of certificate chains, SNI, and secure delivery requirements
- Troubleshooting and delivery observability - Edge Diagnostics, debug headers, mPulse (RUM), and traffic reporting APIs, backed by solid network fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, routing) and a clear picture of how DNS, CDN, origin, and application layers interact under production load
- Delivering change in a controlled environment - experience working through formal ITSM/change-control processes such as ServiceNow, in regulated or high-availability settings

Nice to have
- Akamai certification in Web Performance, Cloud Security, or Media Delivery
- Other CDN and edge platforms (CloudFront, Cloudflare, Fastly) for comparative or multi-CDN architecture

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📌 Senior Platform Engineer - CDN & Akamai (Bengaluru)
🏢 Ig Group
📍 Bengaluru