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Akamai Engineer

Dallas, TX
2018-10-17 16:02:18
Job Type: Contract

•CDN Performance and Security Consultant

•Design and setup new solutions to support various releases from SCRUM teams 

•Work on Akamai Web Performance Product – Ion Premier and Kona Security Product suite: Web Application Firewall(WAF), Bot Manager, SiteShield, Client Reputation, FastDNS, Global Traffic Management(GTM)

•Optimize Web Performance and Enhance Security

•Design, setup and manage front end optimization rules to improve site performance

•Own & manage CDN configurations & integrate new features as they are released by the vendor

•Implement & maintain advanced routing configurations based on project needs

•Manage caching rules and TTLs setup on CDN    

•Automation of tasks such as reports or analysis performance & CDN metrics

•Manage WAF rules and bot protection 

•Performance analysis to identify bottlenecks & design appropriate optimizations

•Collaborate with operations in finding root cause and reduce MTTR for Performance, scalability related issues

•Strong knowledge in front end optimization & configuring CDNs, WAF from providers such as InstartLogic, Akamai, Amazon etc

•Strong knowledge of front end optimization concepts, Networking, Caching etc

•Experience with securing websites from malicious traffic, protection against BOTS, DDoS etc


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