Enterprise Network

Enterprise Network_JR00212747 Pune · Full-time · Onsite

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About the Role We are seeking a skilled CND & Edge Security Engineer to design, optimize, and operate high-scale global content delivery architectures, protect applications via edge security, and ensure end-to-end availability, latency optimization, and secure delivery of web, API, and mobile traffic. The role demands collaboration with internal teams, vendors, and cloud/network partners to ensure 24×7 application availability, performance, and security posture. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience in Akamai, Cloudflare, Multi CDN operations, Multi DNS platforms, WAF Security, and Application Load Balancing.

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Key Responsibilities

• Manage and operate Akamai Ion, Kona, GTM, and Cloudflare CDN, Workers, Page Rules, Load Balancing.
• Implement and support Multi CDN architecture with automatic failover, performance-based routing, and traffic steering.
• Configure caching rules, TTL strategies, edge logic, compression, device-based optimizations, and performance tuning.
• Monitor CDN performance (latency, throughput, hit/miss ratio) and drive continuous optimization.
• Operate Multi DNS platforms (Akamai GTM, Cloudflare Load Balancer/DNS, NS1, Route53 or similar).
• Design failover/geo routing policies, proximity routing, health checks, and weighted traffic distribution.
• Manage DNS zones, CNAME hierarchies, SPF/DMARC/DKIM (where applicable), and coordinate DNS change governance.
• Manage Akamai WAF/Kona, Cloudflare WAF, bot management, rate limiting, IP firewall, and DDoS protection.
• Tune security rulesets (OWASP signatures, custom rules, API schema validation, bot scoring, ACLs).
• Respond to security alerts, block malicious traffic, and coordinate with SOC for edge attack investigations.

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Requirements

• Have 5–8 years of experience in CDN, DNS, WAF, and edge security operations.
• Have strong experience with Akamai (Ion, Kona, GTM) and Cloudflare (WAF, LB, Workers, CDN).
• Proven expertise in DNS, traffic routing, Anycast, Multi DNS, Multi CDN.
• Deep understanding of HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, caching, redirects, compression, QUIC/HTTP3.
• Experience with DNAT, reverse proxying, load balancing, ingress traffic flows.
• Hands-on with origin servers (NGINX/Apache/IIS) & header tuning.
• Incident management experience in 24×7 environments.
• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in IT/CS/Telecom or relevant field.

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Good to Have

• Certifications: Akamai ACA/ACP, Cloudflare Certifications, CCNP Security, or cloud certs (AZ 104, OCI Foundations).
• Automation using Terraform, Python, Ansible, Akamai/Cloudflare APIs.
• Exposure to SIEM/SOC, bot management, and DDoS mitigation tools.
• Analytical problem-solving, excellent communication, ownership mindset, and stakeholder management.

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What We Offer

• Opportunity to work with a talented team of professionals.
• Collaborative and dynamic work environment.
• Professional growth and development opportunities.