Lead Akamai / CDN Engineer

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection. 

Job Description

A Lead Engineer typically provides expertise across all major functions for their dedicated area and delivers product features utilizing vended software, by applying knowledge of the application functionality and client business processes.

In this role as a Lead Akamai / CDN Engineer, you will have full stack developer skills, capable of designing and creating services to optimize the use of the vended software. The role creates technical and process designs and configures vendor software for new or existing complex enterprise-wide and business-unit applications and maintenance efforts. The Lead Engineer is also aware of vendor feature roadmaps and understands how to navigate support processes and developer groups to gain insight and influence future direction.

Key Responsibilities:

• Help design, implement, and optimize Akamai configurations for web applications.

• When necessary, conduct performance tuning and troubleshooting to ensure high availability and optimal performance.

• Collaborate with clients to assess their requirements and provide strategic consulting on Akamai services.

• Monitor traffic and performance metrics using Akamai tools and dashboards.

• Develop and deliver training materials and documentation for clients and internal teams.

• Stay updated on Akamai products, industry trends, and best practices.

• Provide support for incident resolution and root cause analysis.

• Assist in the integration of Akamai solutions with other technologies and platforms, including delivering services to optimize onboarding and updates.

Job Qualifications

• 5+ years’ engineering (full stack) experience

• Experience with Java/J2EE, web application development and API design

• 2+ years' working with and supporting CDN technologies (ideally Akamai solutions)

• Strong proficiency in Akamai CDN configuration and administration and understanding of core networking concepts (e.g., TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/s, proxy, load-balancing, etc.)

• Previous experience monitoring Akamai services for performance and availability using Akamai Control Center and other monitoring tools and troubleshoot and resolve issues related to Akamai configurations and performance

• Advance experience on Splunk, Datadog or other SIEM (security information and event management) Monitoring

• Experience in integrating websites and implementing CDN technologies (performance, security, reliability, scalability)

• Collaboration skills for example collaborating with the security team to implement and maintain security policies

• Experience working with Rest APIs and Java development (CI/CD) within an application security context

• Experience with API tools like Postman/Rest APIs and API acceleration/Caching patterns.

• Strong experience in building APIs and Microservices

• Proven ability to manage activities with limited guidance

• Effective communications, interpersonal, and team building skills

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Skills

Akamai Content Delivery Network (Akamai CDN), API Design, Application Development, Application Programming Interface (API), Backbone Network, Design, Java Enterprise Edition, Performance Tuning, RESTful APIs, Web Application Development, Web Applications

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is $112,000.00 - 196,750.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. And one where you can impact the future for the greater good.  

You’ll do all this in a flexible environment that embraces connection and belonging. And with the recognition of several inclusivity and diversity awards, we’ve proven that Allstate empowers everyone to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live. 

Good Hands. Greater Together.

Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.

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