Remote Service Mesh Engineer: Istio/Linkerd Expert

Bright Vision Technologies; SOUTH PLAINFIELD (NJ); Remote; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Service Mesh Engineer to design, deploy, and operate Istio and Linkerd across a Kubernetes estate. This remote role focuses on mTLS, traffic policy, observability, and secure service-to-service communication.

You will partner with SRE, platform, and security teams to deliver scalable mesh patterns, incident response, and guided adoption for application teams, with a strong emphasis on reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Eight 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.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate service mesh platforms 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, applying systematic measurement, targeted improvements, and data-driven validation to deliver quantifiable gains in throughput, latency, or resource efficiency.
• Develop paved-road adoption patterns and onboarding guides that make mesh adoption easy for app teams.
• Implement authorization policies and zero-trust patterns at the service mesh layer.
• Operate service mesh upgrades, control-plane lifecycle management, and configuration governance, applying disciplined release practices that keep the mesh current without disrupting workloads running on top of it.
• Partner with SRE, platform, and security teams on mesh policy and incident response.
• Troubleshoot complex networking, mTLS, and traffic issues spanning sidecar and gateway tiers.
• Maintain runbooks, architecture diagrams, and onboarding materials for the service mesh platform.
• Stay current with Istio, Linkerd, Cilium, and broader service mesh ecosystem developments.

Skills

Communication

Collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Go

Python

Istio

Linkerd

Kubernetes

Envoy

Cilium

SPIFFE/SPIRE

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Service Mesh Engineer to design, deploy, and operate Istio and Linkerd across a Kubernetes estate. This remote role focuses on mTLS, traffic policy, observability, and secure service-to-service communication.

You will partner with SRE, platform, and security teams to deliver scalable mesh patterns, incident response, and guided adoption for application teams, with a strong emphasis on reliability and performance.