Remote Senior Platform Networking Engineer – Service Mesh

Bright Vision Technologies; Flower Mound (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking 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.

The role focuses on platform engineering, mesh adoption, mTLS, traffic policy, and helping application teams reap the benefits of a mesh without paying for unnecessary complexity.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms—primarily Istio and Linkerd.
• Focus on platform engineering, mesh adoption, mTLS, and traffic policy.
• Help application teams reap the benefits of a mesh without unnecessary complexity.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure secure, observable service-to-service communication.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Istio

Linkerd

Envoy

Cilium

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking 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.

The role focuses on platform engineering, mesh adoption, mTLS, traffic policy, and helping application teams reap the benefits of a mesh without paying for unnecessary complexity.