Production Support Analyst (Akamai / Web Platforms)
- Toronto, ON, Canada
$50 to $60 CAD / hour · Contract
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Job details
- Pay
- $50 to $60 CAD / hour
- Job type
- Contract
- Apply by
- Experience
- 5+ years of Production/Application Support experience in enterprise environments.
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Job Title: Production Support Analyst (Akamai / Web Platforms)
Role Summary
We are seeking a Production Support Analyst with strong experience in Akamai, web platform support, cloud technologies, and incident management. The role is responsible for monitoring, troubleshooting, and supporting critical production environments while ensuring high availability, performance, and security of web applications and digital platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor and support production environments, ensuring adherence to SLAs and operational excellence.
- Troubleshoot and resolve application, network, system, DNS, SSL, and infrastructure-related issues.
- Perform incident, problem, and change management activities in alignment with ITIL processes.
- Manage and maintain Akamai delivery configurations, NetStorage, caching, routing, performance optimization, and security solutions.
- Coordinate with Development, DevOps, CloudOps, infrastructure teams, and vendors to drive issue resolution and root cause analysis.
- Administer domains, DNS records, URL redirects, SSL certificates, and user access management.
- Monitor system performance, analyze trends, perform root cause analysis, and recommend improvements.
- Support web platforms, cloud environments, and content delivery infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and related technologies.
- Create and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, knowledge articles, and user guides.
- Participate in on-call rotations and major incident response activities.
- Deliver knowledge transfer and cross-training sessions to support team members.
- 5+ years of Production/Application Support experience in enterprise environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with Akamai CDN, NetStorage, and Akamai delivery/security configurations.
- Experience supporting AWS, Azure, NGINX, Apache, and modern web application environments.
- Strong expertise in DNS management, SSL certificates, URL routing, and website delivery architecture.
- Experience with Jira and Confluence administration and support.
- Knowledge of Akamai security solutions including WAF, Kona Site Defender, Site Shield, Bot Manager, and Prolexic.
- Familiarity with ITIL processes including Incident, Problem, and Change Management.
- Experience managing production incidents, vendor escalations, and root cause reporting.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact with technical and business stakeholders.
- Previous experience supporting Akamai platforms or working as a Webmaster.
- Experience with web hosting platforms such as Heroku or other PaaS solutions.
- Knowledge of streaming platforms, media delivery, and content distribution.
- Experience supporting mobile applications (iOS and Android).
Akamai CDN, NetStorage, WAF, Site Shield, Kona Site Defender, Prolexic, AWS, Azure, NGINX, Apache, DNS, SSL, Jira, Confluence, AngularJS, Cloud Platforms, Incident Management, ITIL.
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Responsibilities
Monitor, troubleshoot, and support production web platforms and cloud environments, maintaining availability, performance, security, and SLA compliance. Manage Akamai delivery and security configurations, DNS and SSL, incident and change processes, vendor coordination, operational documentation, and on-call response.
Requirements
Requires 5+ years of enterprise production or application support experience, hands-on Akamai CDN and NetStorage expertise, and experience with AWS, Azure, web servers, DNS, SSL, and web delivery. Candidates should also have ITIL incident, problem, and change management knowledge, Jira and Confluence experience, strong troubleshooting and communication skills, and experience with production incidents and root cause reporting.
Skills
- Akamai CDN
- NetStorage
- AWS
- Azure
- NGINX
- Apache
- DNS Management
- SSL Certificates
- URL Routing
- Web Application Support
- Incident Management
- ITIL
- Jira
- Confluence
- Root Cause Analysis
- Akamai Security Solutions
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Categories
- Technology
- Software
- Customer Service & Support
Keywords
- Akamai CDN
- NetStorage
- Akamai Delivery Configurations
- Web Application Firewall
- Kona Site Defender
- Site Shield
- Bot Manager
- Prolexic
- AWS
- Azure
- NGINX
- Apache
- DNS
- SSL Certificates
- URL Redirects
- Jira
- Confluence
- AngularJS
- ITIL
- Incident Management
- Problem Management
- Change Management
- Root Cause Analysis
- Cloud Platforms
- Content Delivery Infrastructure
- Web Hosting
- Heroku
- Streaming Platforms
- Media Delivery
- Mobile Applications