Role OverviewWe are looking for a Service Mesh Engineer to design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms — primarily Istio and Linkerd — that provide secure, observable, and reliable service-to-service communication across our Kubernetes estate.
What You Will Do
Design and operate service mesh platforms, implement and operate mTLS, define traffic management policies, integrate the mesh with ingress, egress, and API gateway tiers, build observability for mesh traffic, and more.
Why It Might Be a Fit
The ideal candidate has operated service mesh in production, deeply understands Envoy and the data plane, and brings both platform engineering discipline and pragmatic adoption strategies.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Five or more years of experience in platform engineering, SRE, or networking roles
- Hands-on experience operating Istio or Linkerd in production
- Strong understanding of Envoy proxy internals and configuration
- Deep Kubernetes expertise including networking, CNI, and ingress
- Strong understanding of mTLS, PKI, and certificate lifecycle management
- Experience with distributed tracing and observability for mesh traffic
- Proficiency in Go or Python for tooling and automation
- Strong troubleshooting skills across networking, application, and control plane layers
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Benefits
- Competitive base salary commensurate with experience, plus benefits
- 100% remote, full-time, direct W2 position with Bright Vision Technologies
- Long-term, multi-year, aligned to the Bright Vision SOW delivery roadmap
- H1B transfers welcomed for qualified candidates
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