Principal AEM Platform DevOps Engineer

Principal AEM Platform DevOps Engineer — Edge Delivery Services 

Minneapolis MN (2-3 days Hybrid role, Locals only)

Position Summary 

We are seeking a Principal AEM Platform DevOps Engineer to design, operate, and continuously improve our Adobe Experience Manager Cloud and Edge Delivery Services platform. This role owns cloud infrastructure, CDN configuration, deployment automation, security, performance, observability, and integrations across AEM, Universal Editor, SharePoint, AWS, and GCP. 

Key Responsibilities 

Own AEM as a Cloud Service environments, Cloud Manager pipelines, configurations, integrations, and operational standards. 
Design and manage AEM Edge Delivery Services with Universal Editor and document-based or repository-less authoring models. 
Configure and optimize Fastly CDN, edge routing, caching, redirects, security headers, SSL/TLS, DNS, and origin routing. 
Develop and maintain edge rules, routing configurations, and server-side edge functions. 
Automate cloud infrastructure and platform configurations using Terraform across AWS and GCP. 
Integrate SharePoint and other content sources with AEM, Edge Delivery Services, and automated publishing workflows. 
Support Java-based AEM development, services, integrations, and troubleshooting. 
Manage deployment, release, monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident-response processes. 
Improve Core Web Vitals, availability, scalability, technical SEO, robots.txt, sitemaps, llms and secure API integrations. 
Establish standards for repository-less configuration, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, security, and platform governance. 
Required Skills and Experience 

Strong experience with AEM as a Cloud Service, Adobe Cloud Manager, and enterprise web platforms. 
Practical experience with AEM Edge Delivery Services, Universal Editor, and document-based authoring. 
Expertise with Fastly CDN, edge routing, caching, redirects, DNS, and SSL/TLS. 
Experience with AWS, GCP, Terraform, CI/CD, and cloud-native operations. 
Proficiency in Java, JavaScript, APIs, JSON, and server-side edge configuration. 
Experience integrating SharePoint, webhooks, content APIs, and automated publishing workflows. 
Knowledge of repository-less or repo-less server configurations and modern edge delivery architectures. 
Experience with observability tools such as Splunk, Datadog, or Google Cloud Logging. 
Strong understanding of web performance, security, technical SEO, and Core Web Vitals. 
Excellent communication, ownership, architecture, and problem-solving skills. 
Leadership and Working Style 

Proactive and constantly looks ahead for risks, improvements, and opportunities to strengthen the platform. 
Takes complete ownership of the product and its outcomes from design through production operations. 
Hands-on and comfortable writing code, configuring infrastructure, debugging production issues, and implementing solutions. 
Accountable for reliability, security, performance, and delivery quality. 
Acts as a technical leader who drives issues to resolution instead of waiting for direction. 
Comfortable working independently in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment. 
Clearly communicates complex technical decisions to engineers, business stakeholders, and leadership. 
Continuously learns, challenges inefficient processes, and promotes automation and operational excellence.