Remote Service Mesh Architect (Istio/Linkerd)

Bright Vision Technologies; Yuba City (CA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Service Mesh Architect to design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms (Istio and Linkerd) across a Kubernetes estate. You will focus on security, observability, and reliability of service-to-service communication, applying mTLS and traffic policy techniques.

The ideal candidate brings production experience with Istio or Linkerd, deep Envoy knowledge, and strong Go or Python tooling skills to enable scalable mesh adoption across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years in platform engineering, SRE, or networking.
• Hands-on production experience with Istio or Linkerd.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate Istio/Linkerd service mesh.
• Ensure secure, observable, and reliable service-to-service communication across Kubernetes.
• Focus on mTLS, traffic policy, platform engineering discipline, and adoption strategies.

Skills

Kubernetes networking

Envoy proxy internals

mTLS PKI

Observability

Production service mesh

Go or Python

Troubleshooting

Platform engineering

Collaboration

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Istio

Linkerd

Cilium

eBPF

SPIFFE/SPIRE

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Service Mesh Architect to design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms (Istio and Linkerd) across a Kubernetes estate. You will focus on security, observability, and reliability of service-to-service communication, applying mTLS and traffic policy techniques.

The ideal candidate brings production experience with Istio or Linkerd, deep Envoy knowledge, and strong Go or Python tooling skills to enable scalable mesh adoption across teams.