Senior Platform Engineer CDN and Akamai
IG operates an award-winning trading platform and provides forex trading services, support, and educational resources through IG Academy.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
About IG
IG is a trading-services company offering an award-winning trading platform, including forex trading services in the US. Its website highlights instant support and educational resources through IG Academy, and warns users about the risks of leveraged CFD trading.
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About the Role
You will own and modernize the Akamai edge delivery estate. You will migrate configuration into Terraform and GitLab pipelines, build self-service tooling, manage routing and caching, secure edge properties, maintain certificates, diagnose production incidents, and support multi-CDN resilience.
Requirements
- 5+ years of CDN and edge delivery engineering experience
- Deep hands-on Akamai expertise
- Experience with Property Manager Control Center PAPI and Akamai rule trees
- Experience with the Akamai Terraform Provider
- GitLab CI/CD experience
- Python or Bash scripting experience
- Knowledge of routing DNS traffic management and multi-region delivery
- Experience with redirects rewrites and Cloudlet policies
- Knowledge of Site Shield network lists WAF bot mitigation and SSL/TLS
- Experience with Edge Diagnostics mPulse and traffic reporting APIs
- Strong TCP/IP DNS HTTP/HTTPS and routing fundamentals
- Experience with formal ITSM and change-control processes
- Akamai certification is desirable
- Experience with CloudFront Cloudflare or Fastly is desirable
- AWS networking experience is desirable
- Edge compute API Gateway or service mesh experience is desirable
- Akamai DataStream experience is desirable
- PCI DSS knowledge is desirable
Responsibilities
- Migrate Akamai configuration from Control Center to Terraform workflows
- Build reusable modules for properties rule trees and DNS
- Create self-service edge change paths with validation and staging tests
- Integrate edge configuration with GitLab CI/CD and ServiceNow change control
- Automate Akamai operations with Python and Bash
- Manage Akamai properties routing origins caching and purge workflows
- Support multi-CDN failover and disaster recovery planning
- Configure edge security controls including WAF and bot mitigation
- Manage SSL and TLS certificates with Venafi
- Maintain inventories and remediate configuration drift
- Diagnose delivery routing and performance incidents
- Partner with application teams on secure and maintainable edge configurations
