Overview

Akamai Engineer

eir business talent is partnering with a major Irish organisation to recruit an experienced Akamai Engineer to support the ongoing operation, configuration and optimisation of its Akamai environment.

We are seeking a hands-on engineer with strong experience across Akamai Ion CDN, Web Application Firewall (WAF), application onboarding, property configuration, logging, reporting and incident troubleshooting.

This role will involve working closely with application teams and providing ongoing technical support across the Akamai platform, including configuration changes, security tuning, operational checks and recommendations on platform improvements and configuration gaps.

The Role

As an Akamai Engineer, you will be responsible for supporting and managing key elements of the organisation’s Akamai environment, with a particular focus on Akamai Ion CDN and WAF.

You will support the onboarding of applications onto the platform, manage ongoing property and security configuration changes, maintain logging and reporting, troubleshoot incidents and provide regular recommendations around new functionality and existing configuration gaps.

The role will also involve liaising with application teams alongside Akamai support, which provides peer review and support relating to attacks identified on applications and troubleshooting of high-severity incidents.

Key Responsibilities

  • Support the delivery and ongoing management of Akamai Ion CDN.
  • Onboard applications onto the Akamai platform.
  • Manage property configuration changes, including adding new behaviours and post-deployment changes.
  • Manage certificate renewals.
  • Build and manage WAF security configurations, including adding hostnames and new rules.
  • Perform ongoing WAF fine-tuning.
  • Configure and maintain alerts.
  • Enable logging to capture raw logs.
  • Produce and support traffic reporting, including usage reports.
  • Perform daily and weekly checks in WSA.
  • Provide monthly or quarterly recommendations to the business regarding new features and existing configuration gaps.
  • Troubleshoot incidents affecting the Akamai environment.
  • Work closely with relevant application teams.

Technical Environment
The successful candidate will work across an Akamai environment that includes:

  • Akamai Ion CDN
  • Web Application Firewall (WAF)
  • Akamai property configurations
  • Application onboarding
  • Security configurations
  • WAF rules and tuning
  • Certificate renewals
  • Alerts
  • Raw logging
  • Traffic and usage reporting
  • WSA
  • Incident troubleshooting

Essential Experience
We are interested in speaking with candidates who can demonstrate strong hands-on experience in areas including:

  • Akamai Ion CDN and CDN operations.
  • Onboarding applications onto the Akamai platform.
  • Managing Akamai property configuration changes.
  • Building and managing WAF security configurations.
  • Adding and managing hostnames and WAF rules.
  • WAF tuning and ongoing security configuration management.
  • Configuring alerts and working with platform logging.
  • Supporting traffic and usage reporting.
  • Troubleshooting technical and security incidents.
  • Working effectively with application teams and technical stakeholders.
  • Reviewing environments regularly and identifying configuration gaps and potential platform improvements.

Operational Support

The role will work alongside Akamai support, which provides peer review and assistance where attacks are identified against applications, as well as troubleshooting support for high-severity incidents.

** All applicants must have a valid EU, UK Passport OR Stamp 4 Visa **

Interested?

If you are interested in applying for this role, please do so via the relevant link. If you would like to discuss the opportunity in confidence, please apply or contact Michael Mooney at eir business talent directly at michael(dot)mooney(at)eirbusiness(dot)ie.

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