Role overview

Pay Range: XXXhr - XXXhr

Job Overview:

The organization is looking for a hands-on AEM Engineer who can help build, enhance, troubleshoot and support a modern digital experience platform. The ideal candidate will bring strong Adobe Experience Manager expertise, web-development fundamentals and experience working with modern cloud-based AEM environments. Prior Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience is not required. The successful candidate should be interested in expanding beyond traditional AEM development into production reliability, observability, performance engineering and operational support. The individual will be supported in developing these capabilities on the job.

Responsibilities:

Design, develop, configure and enhance solutions using Adobe Experience Manager.
Build and maintain AEM components, templates, content models and reusable digital experience capabilities.
Work with AEM as a Cloud Service and modern AEM development and deployment approaches.
Support development and implementation of experiences using Adobe Edge Delivery Services (EDS).
Develop and troubleshoot front-end functionality using JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
Integrate AEM experiences with enterprise and third-party services such as Search, Analytics, Consent Management, Personalization and other APIs/services.
Work closely with developers, architects, content teams and Adobe to resolve application and platform issues.
Support enterprise content authoring, publishing and digital asset management capabilities.
Work with AEM Assets / Assets as a Cloud Service and related asset-management workflows.
Troubleshoot content publishing, caching and content-availability issues.
Support content authors and business teams in understanding technical issues impacting publishing or customer experience.
Help establish scalable development and publishing practices as the AEM platform grows.
Help optimize web experiences for performance, availability and customer experience.
Understand browser-side behavior and troubleshoot JavaScript, CSS, asset-loading and rendering issues.
Develop an understanding of Core Web Vitals and web-performance optimization.
Work with CDN and edge teams on caching, invalidation and delivery-related issues.
Analyze issues across AEM, EDS, browser, CDN and integrated services to identify the source of customer-facing problems.
Work with Git-based development and deployment processes.
Contribute to automated build, validation and deployment pipelines.
Support code reviews, branch management, automated testing and release activities.
Build automated smoke and functional tests for critical customer journeys and integrations.
Support rollback, republishing and cache-purge activities where required.
Develop capabilities in application and platform monitoring, RUM, Core Web Vitals, CDN observability, and incident management.

Requirements:

Strong hands-on experience with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) development.
Experience developing AEM components, templates, services and integrations.
Knowledge of AEM as a Cloud Service or modern cloud-based AEM implementations.
Strong understanding of web technologies including JavaScript, HTML, CSS, HTTP/HTTPS, and REST APIs.
Experience with Git-based development and modern CI/CD practices.
Ability to troubleshoot application and content-delivery issues across multiple technical layers.
Understanding of web application development and browser-side behavior.
Experience integrating AEM with external/enterprise services and APIs.
Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
Excellent communication skills and ability to work across development, infrastructure, security and business teams.
Strong interest in learning SRE, observability, production reliability and performance engineering.

Nice to Have:

Adobe Edge Delivery Services (EDS) experience.
AEM Assets / Assets as a Cloud Service experience.
Experience with Adobe Cloud Manager.
Knowledge of CDN concepts including caching, cache invalidation, origin behavior, DNS and TLS.
Exposure to Akamai, Cloudflare or another enterprise CDN.
Understanding of Core Web Vitals and web-performance optimization.
Experience with automated or synthetic testing.
Exposure to monitoring, logging or observability platforms.
Experience supporting production applications.
Automation/scripting experience using JavaScript, Java or Python.
Exposure to WAF, bot management or web-security concepts.
Financial services or other regulated-industry experience.
Familiarity with accessibility and SEO considerations for large public websites.