Job Code - Akamai Systems Engineer
Work Locations - Bothell WA 98011
Positions Requested - 1
Hours per Day - 8
Hours per Week - 40
Total Hours - 1-year contract initially

Project - Edge Engineering - Akamai Delivery

• This role would be responsible for managing Akamai CDN configurations for high traffic highly iterative customer facing websites.
• Work with stakeholders to design, author, implement, and test Akamai changes in preproduction environment and ultimately once complete propagate to production.
• Provide technical design and architectural leadership and work hand-in-hand with Akamai professional services to assess impacts of changes
• Apply Performance, web acceleration techniques
• Help setup and maintain reports related to traffic and usage data, dashboards for usage and performance and documentation designed to help inform and notify stakeholders.
• Create and maintain tools interfacing with various Akamai features.
• Perform Akamai related maintenance activities on a regular basis.
• Be "on-call" for Akamai related events that could occur during off hours and be available for helping troubleshoot customer or release impacting incidents.
• Research, analyze and recommend new technologies, rationalization opportunities, standard processes, tools and techniques to further the firm's application and enterprise technology architecture strategies.

Required Qualifications

• Must have 3 years of level of real-world Akamai configuration experience managing various Akamai features across multiple domains. Experience with other CDNs considered. Ex. Fastly, CloudFlare, Imperva, Cloudfront, etc.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, PrometheGrafana, ELK stack, ability to understand metrics and impact to system performance, and ability to build dashboards and alerts to ensure system reliability.
• Experience with Siteshield and other Akamai security features.
• Strong scripting and coding ability across multiple languages and technologies
• Willingness to work flexible hours, on-call as needed.
• Proven experience optimizing reliability and performance and scaling technical infrastructure in a fast paced and collaborative environment
• Strong analytical skills and ability to provide data driven recommendations for critical decision making, mainly around system reconfiguration and improvement
• 5 years of progressive experience in cloud engineering, site reliability, devops, system infrastructure, or a related technical role
• 5 years of experience building and/or supporting web applications
• 5 years of Linux Operating Systems experience including scripting
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to present complex technical information in a clear manner to peers, developers, and senior leaders

Optional Qualifications

• Internet security related experience
• Experience in performance tuning and application monitoring
• Experience in architecture and design of web-based architecture
• Experience in a technical leadership capacity - team lead/manager etc.
• Experience in cloud technologies: AWS, Azure, etc.
• Familiarity with HTML5, JavaScript frameworks, and CSS3

Pay Range: $52 - $62/HR W2 / $57 - $67/HR C2C
The specific compensation for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. Our full-time consultants have access to benefits including medical, dental, vision as well as 401K contributions as well as any other PTO, sick leave, and other benefits mandated by applicable state or localities where you reside or work.