Job Description

• As an Edge Networking Engineer, your role involves collaborating with our development teams and product owners to plan and implement new CDN, Security, and Performance infrastructure using AWS and Akamai technologies.
• Emphasizing stability and performance, you'll manage routing, caching, DNS, and security components to support digital feature delivery.
• Our team values cross-functional teamwork and encourages feedback from peers and management.
• You'll participate in team meetings, address technical risks, and collaborate with colleagues to achieve shared objectives.
• We prioritize asset creation and innovation.
• You're encouraged to continuously push yourself to innovate, share improvements with stakeholders, and substantiate progress with data.
• Documenting processes, creating white papers, and sharing insights with peers, the team, and upper management can open up exciting career prospects within our growing organization. Core Responsibilities :
• Manage delivery configurations to enable new functionality in engineering projects.
• Provide input on design and best practices throughout the development lifecycle.
• Coordinate with Project Managers for timely feature delivery and reliable uptime during QA testing.
• Monitor web traffic, develop WAF/firewall rules to mitigate security risks, and analyze traffic logs and graphs to detect potential and past attacks.
• Design intelligent blocking rules to safeguard web infrastructure while allowing legitimate access.
• Organize network lists and oversee vendor IP additions and removals. 
• Manage Web-based firewall rules, maintaining documentation for access control.
• Renew or expire access as needed.
• Review traffic waterfalls, identify potential issues and performance enhancements, and conduct scheduled site performance audits.
• Initiate projects to address identified performance issues and standardize site features for optimized performance across all properties.
• Develop automated deployment scripts to enhance deployment speed and organization.
• Collaborate with developers to create deployment scripts for efficient provisioning of new properties and features. Integrate existing feature control into self-service tools for
• easy management.
• Requirements
• Completed Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related experience.
• 5 or more years of experience in a Web Performance or Web Development-related role.
• Good understanding of web technologies ( SSL, Headers, Cookies, TCP, Caching).
• Advanced knowledge of Cloudflare, Akamai, or other CDN solutions
• Great understanding of waterfalls and browser performance metrics
• Experience in working with security products like SHAPE (F5), WAF, DDoS, and Bot Mitigation tools.
• Experience in implementing Edge/Workers, API and automation.
• Exposure to bug tracking and task management software such as JIRA, Bugzilla, etc.
• Ability to review traffic logs and develop WAF and Bot Mitigation strategies.
• Understanding of website analytics tools, synthetic monitoring, RUM tools like Blue Triangle or MPulse, and monitoring/alerting methodologies like Splunk.
• Some programming/scripting knowledge would be a plus (preferably Python, JavaScript, or PHP)

Department: Preferred Vendors
This is a contract position

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