Remote Service Mesh Engineer – Istio/Linkerd Expert

Bright Vision Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Service Infrastructure Engineer to design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms (Istio/Linkerd) across a Kubernetes environment. This remote, full-time role emphasizes platform engineering, mTLS, traffic policies, and observability to enable secure and reliable service-to-service communication.

The ideal candidate has 6+ years in platform engineering or SRE, deep Envoy knowledge, and strong Kubernetes skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of platform engineering, SRE, or networking experience.
• 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 knowledge 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 across networking, app, 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 and topology visualization.
• Design multi-cluster and cross-cluster mesh topologies for high availability and tenant isolation.
• Profile and optimize mesh performance and resource usage with data-driven validation.
• Develop paved-road adoption patterns and onboarding guides for app teams.
• Implement authorization policies and zero-trust patterns at the service mesh layer.
• Operate mesh upgrades, control-plane lifecycle management, and governance.
• Collaborate with SRE, platform, and security teams on mesh policy and incident response.
• Troubleshoot complex networking, mTLS, and traffic issues across tiers.
• Maintain runbooks and architecture diagrams for the mesh platform.
• Stay current with Istio, Linkerd, Cilium, and broader mesh developments.

Skills

Kubernetes

Envoy proxy

mTLS

PKI

Observability

Go or Python

Troubleshooting

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Istio

Linkerd

Cilium

eBPF

SPIFFE/SPIRE

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Service Infrastructure Engineer to design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms (Istio/Linkerd) across a Kubernetes environment. This remote, full-time role emphasizes platform engineering, mTLS, traffic policies, and observability to enable secure and reliable service-to-service communication.

The ideal candidate has 6+ years in platform engineering or SRE, deep Envoy knowledge, and strong Kubernetes skills.