CDN Engineer

5 to 10+ years of deep, demonstrable expertise with enterprise CDN platforms such as Akamai and nice to have Cloudflare. Writing, deploying, and tuning custom WAF rules and managed rule groups. Configuring and managing bot mitigation policies, bot scoring thresholds, and challenge/block actions. Designing and executing DDoS mitigation strategies for both volumetric and application-layer attacks. Develop and maintain rate limiting, IP reputation management, and client fingerprinting policies to defend against credential stuffing, scraping, account takeover, and API abuse. Partner with CDN and security vendors on escalated threat investigations, platform capabilities, and contract/SLA management. Conduct vulnerability assessments, respond to security incidents promptly and thoroughly. Manage privileged access and enforce least-privilege principles, implement identity security measures for multi-cloud environments.