Senior Software Engineer

We await your innovation at TCS : Hiring | CDN – Senior Engineer |

Greetings from TCS!!

Required Total Experience : 10+ years

Work location : Preferably in Chennai or any location in India

Required Technical Skill Set : CDN - Akamai & Fastly

Job Description :

• Strong background with Web / Internet protocols such as HTTP / 2, HTTP / 3 (QUIC), TLS, DNS, TCP / IP, and UDP.
• Experience analyzing and mitigating DDoS attacks (volumetric, protocol, application layer) using Akamai Prolexic / WAF, Fastly WAF, or equivalent.
• Proficient in Akamai & Fastly CDN technologies , including edge configuration, caching, routing, and load balancing.
• Experience developing or integrating bot management, web scraping defense, and client analytics solutions.
• Data privacy, information security expertise , and familiarity with compliance standards (GDPR, SOC2, PCI DSS, HIPAA if relevant).
• Expertise in analysis and problem-solving of large-scale distributed systems (low latency, high throughput).
• Deep knowledge of CDNs, reverse proxies, WAFs, caching layers, and traffic management systems .
• Hands-on experience managing high-traffic, attack-prone, mission-critical websites and APIs (e-commerce, fintech, OTT, SaaS).
• Ability to design and build core components of a CDN networking stack and optimize computation / network performance by observing real-world traffic.
• Enhance Akamai / Fastly DDoS protection, bot mitigation, and edge security policies .
• Strong experience with edge computing technologies : Fastly Compute@Edge, Akamai Edge Workers, Cloudflare Workers, AWS Lambda@Edge.
• Familiarity with content security and encryption at edge (HSTS, CSP, TLS offloading, token-based auth, mTLS).
• Experience with multi-CDN architectures (Akamai, Fastly) including routing, failover, and cost optimization.
• Knowledge of streaming / OTT content delivery (HLS, DASH, DRM) and performance tuning for video at scale.
• Experience integrating CDNs with DevOps pipelines (CI / CD) and automating configuration deployments via Terraform, Ansible, or custom APIs.
• Handson in Akamai Net Storage and Fastly storage [Cloud storage, Fastly Origin services]
• Strong knowledge of observability tools (Akamai mPulse, Fastly Insights, Fastly Real-Time Log Streaming + Observability Integrations) for performance and incident monitoring.
• Experience with log analysis and traffic anomaly detection at CDN / edge.
• Skilled in scripting and automation (Python, Bash, Go, or Next.js) to manage CDN configurations, logs, and performance tuning.

Regards,

Hari Chandana