Remote Service Mesh Engineer – Istio & Linkerd Expert

Bright Vision Technologies

Reston (VA)

Remote

USD 100,000 - 150,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Service Infrastructure Engineer for a 100% remote role in the United States. You will design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms (Istio/Linkerd) across our Kubernetes estate, focusing on secure, observable, and reliable service-to-service communication.

You will partner with application teams to drive mesh adoption while maintaining simplicity and reliability.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
6+ years experience in platform engineering, SRE, or networking roles.
Hands-on production experience with Istio or Linkerd.
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 across our Kubernetes estate.
Focus on platform engineering, mesh adoption, mTLS, traffic policy, and observability.
Collaborate with application teams to enable pragmatic mesh adoption.
Maintain and improve security, observability, and reliability of mesh traffic.