Remote Kubernetes Service Mesh Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies; Columbus, New Albany, Hilliard (OH, OH, OH); Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software firm seeking a Kubernetes Service Engineer to design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms (Istio/Linkerd) across multi-cluster Kubernetes environments. You will implement mTLS, traffic policies, and observability, partnering with SRE and security teams to ensure secure, observable service-to-service communication.

The role emphasizes platform engineering discipline, pragmatic adoption, and scalable mesh strategies, with a

Qualifications

• 6+ 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.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate service mesh platforms — Istio and Linkerd — across multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.
• Implement and operate mTLS, certificate rotation, and identity propagation across the mesh.
• Define traffic management policies including routing, retries, circuit breaking, and fault injection.
• Integrate the mesh with ingress, egress, and API gateway tiers for unified traffic management.
• Build observability for mesh traffic including distributed tracing, golden signals, and topology visualization.
• Design multi-cluster and cross-cluster mesh topologies for high availability and tenant isolation.
• Profile and optimize mesh performance, sidecar resource usage, and control-plane footprint with data-driven validation.

Skills

Kubernetes

Platform engineering

SRE

mTLS

Go or Python

Tools

Istio

Linkerd

Envoy

Cilium

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software firm seeking a Kubernetes Service Engineer to design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms (Istio/Linkerd) across multi-cluster Kubernetes environments. You will implement mTLS, traffic policies, and observability, partnering with SRE and security teams to ensure secure, observable service-to-service communication.

The role emphasizes platform engineering discipline, pragmatic adoption, and scalable mesh strategies, with a