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At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger - helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.\nPosition Summary\nThe Staff CDN Engineer is a highly experienced, hands-on technical leader responsible for enterprise content delivery, edge computing, web performance, DNS, traffic management, and application security solutions. This role defines architecture and engineering standards, builds reusable automation and self-service capabilities, and partners across application, infrastructure, cloud, network, and security teams. The engineer also provides operational ownership by participating in on-call support, leading response to critical production incidents, supporting business-critical releases, and driving root-cause remediation and long-term service improvements. Through direct engineering contribution, technical influence, and mentorship, this role advances platform reliability, performance, security, scalability, and operational readiness.\nRoles and Responsibilities / Job Duties\nDefine and evolve enterprise CDN and edge-delivery architectures, engineering standards, and reusable design patterns; build APIs, Infrastructure as Code modules, GitOps workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and self-service capabilities that standardize onboarding, deployment, configuration, validation, governance, and lifecycle management while reducing operational risk and recurring manual effort.\nServe as the enterprise subject matter expert for CDN(Akamai), edge delivery, web performance, DNS, TLS, caching, routing, traffic management, and application security; lead architecture and design reviews, align cross-functional teams, resolve technical dependencies, and contribute hands-on engineering to complex customer-facing and platform initiatives.\nLead advanced analysis and troubleshooting across CDN, DNS, TLS, routing, caching, traffic steering, edge-to-origin connectivity, application delivery, and web performance; use monitoring, testing, logs, telemetry, and traffic analytics to improve service health, latency, cache efficiency, and proactive remediation.\nProvide hands-on operational support through participation in an on-call rotation, leadership during high-priority production incidents, and support for scheduled evening or nighttime releases when required; coordinate service restoration, communicate during escalations, conduct root-cause analysis, and drive corrective actions that prevent recurrence.\nMentor engineers through architecture reviews, design discussions, incident investigations, code reviews, workshops, and hands-on collaboration; create reusable guidance and promote disciplined operational readiness, service ownership, and continuous improvement.\nSet the long-term technical direction and modernization roadmap for enterprise CDN, DNS, traffic management, and edge-security platforms while balancing transformation with production stability, business-critical delivery, and ongoing support responsibilities.\nRequired Skills\n7+ years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, supporting, and troubleshooting enterprise CDN(Akamai), edge-delivery, web-performance, DNS, network-delivery, or closely related solutions, with deep knowledge of HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, caching, routing, traffic steering, origin connectivity, and application performance.\nStrong software engineering and automation experience using languages such as Python, Go, or Node.js, together with Infrastructure as Code, APIs, Git-based development, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, configuration deployment, reusable tooling, and self-service platform capabilities.\nDemonstrated experience leading complex production incidents and technical investigations, including prioritizing urgent operational demands, coordinating cross-functional responders, restoring service, communicating during escalations, performing root-cause analysis, and driving durable corrective actions.\nProven ability to define reference architectures and engineering standards, lead complex technical initiatives through direct contribution and influence, and collaborate effectively across application, cloud, network, infrastructure, security, platform, and vendor teams.\nStrong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills, with an ownership mindset and the ability to manage competing priorities and drive complex issues to resolution.\nAbility and willingness to participate in an on-call rotation and support scheduled production changes, incident response, and business-critical release activities outside standard working hours, including evening or nighttime windows when required.\nPreferred Skills\nAdvanced hands-on experience with enterprise Akamai implementations, including relevant capabilities such as Property Manager, Edge DNS, Global Traffic Management, Web Application Firewall, Bot Manager, EdgeWorkers, API Acceleration, and Enterprise Application Access.\nExperience designing reusable, enterprise-scale CDN solutions that support multiple application teams, business units, or cloud environments.\nExperience creating enterprise-scale CDN automation and self-service capabilities using Terraform modules, GitOps workflows, APIs, CI/CD integrations, configuration validation, policy enforcement, automated testing, compliance checks, and remediation.\nExperience with real-user monitoring, synthetic testing, CDN telemetry, log and traffic analytics, application performance monitoring, service-level objectives, reliability indicators, operational health metrics, and error-budget-based engineering practices.\nExperience integrating CDN and edge platforms with multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud, or enterprise application environments, including edge-security controls, web application protection, bot mitigation, API security, and zero-trust access patterns.\nExperience leading platform modernization or operational-simplification programs and mentoring experienced engineers through standards, workshops, coaching, and reusable guidance; relevant CDN, cloud, networking, security, DevOps, site reliability engineering, or infrastructure-automation certifications are a plus.\nEducation\nBachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)\nPay Range\nThe typical pay range for this role is:\n$106,605.00 - $260,590.00This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program. \nOur people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.\nGreat benefits for great people\nWe take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.\nThis full-time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of colleagues and their families. 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