Remote Service Mesh Architect: Istio/Linkerd Expert

Bright Vision Technologies; United States; 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—primarily Istio and Linkerd—across a Kubernetes estate. This role emphasizes platform engineering, mesh adoption, mTLS, and traffic policy to empower application teams while avoiding unnecessary complexity.

The ideal candidate has production experience with service mesh, deep Envoy knowledge, and strong Go or Python tooling and collaboration skills. This is a remote US opportunity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years 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.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms such as Istio and Linkerd.
• Focus on platform engineering, mesh adoption, mTLS, and traffic policy.
• Help application teams reap mesh benefits while avoiding unnecessary complexity.
• Apply strong understanding of Envoy and data plane during operations.

Skills

Go

Python

Envoy

Kubernetes

mTLS

PKI

Observability

Service Mesh

Networking

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Istio

Linkerd

Cilium

eBPF

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Service Mesh Architect to design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms—primarily Istio and Linkerd—across a Kubernetes estate. This role emphasizes platform engineering, mesh adoption, mTLS, and traffic policy to empower application teams while avoiding unnecessary complexity.

The ideal candidate has production experience with service mesh, deep Envoy knowledge, and strong Go or Python tooling and collaboration skills. This is a remote US opportunity.