Platform Engineer, Content Delivery and Engineering Tools; Remote
Lorain, Lorain County, Ohio, 44052, USA
Listed on 2026-10-30
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IT/Tech
SRE/Site Reliability, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Systems Engineer
Job Description
At Abercrombie & Fitch, the Platform Engineer, Content Delivery & Engineering Tools (CDET) is responsible for supporting the platforms and services that enable both our digital customer experience and software delivery ecosystem. The CDET team plays a critical role in ensuring our eCommerce platforms remain fast, reliable, secure, and scalable while providing engineering teams with the tools and capabilities needed to build, deploy, and operate applications efficiently.
This role will mainly support and enhance the Content Delivery Network but will also be folded into key technologies including our Git Lab, Git Lab Runners, Sonatype Nexus, Cursor, and related coding and automation platforms. Partnering closely with application development teams, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Information Security, Infrastructure, and Architecture teams, this engineer will help improve application performance, security posture, developer productivity, platform reliability, and operational excellence across the organization.
This role offers a unique opportunity to grow outside of customer facing ecommerce and into engineer focused tooling.
- Support and administer the Content Delivery Network (CDN), including caching strategies, traffic routing, performance optimization, and edge service configurations.
- Partner with engineering teams to improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and software delivery workflows.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues across content delivery infrastructure which includes internal applications and ecommerce applications.
- Develop automation and Infrastructure-as-Code solutions to improve platform scalability, consistency, and operational efficiency.
- Monitor platform health, performance, and adoption through observability tools and implement improvements based on operational insights.
- Participate in on-call support rotation, incident response, root cause analysis, platform upgrades, capacity planning, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, standards, and support playbooks while evaluating emerging technologies that can improve both developer and customer experiences.
- 101 knowledge of engineering platforms including Git Lab, Git Lab Runners, Sonatype Nexus, Cursor, and other developer productivity tools.
- 3+ years experience working with Content Delivery Networks (CDN), preferably Fastly.
- Knowledge of web technologies including HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, SSL/TLS, caching, load balancing, and application delivery concepts.
- Experience working with cloud-based infrastructure and services, preferably Azure.
- Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and tools such as Terraform.
- Experience utilizing observability platforms such as Splunk and Dynatrace.
- Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills across distributed systems.
- Experience developing scripts and automation using Python, Power Shell, Bash, curl, nslookup, dig, or similar languages.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and documentation skills.
- Ability to balance operational support responsibilities with engineering and automation initiatives.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
- Advanced Fastly administration experience, including VCL development, edge logic, traffic steering, caching optimization, and troubleshooting complex content delivery scenarios.
- Experience supporting large-scale eCommerce platforms with a strong understanding of website performance, availability, and customer experience considerations.
- Experience administering Git-based source control platforms, preferably Git Lab.
- Knowledge of web application security…
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