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 for a 100% remote role in the United States. The candidate will design, deploy, and operate Istio and Linkerd service mesh platforms to provide secure, observable, and reliable inter-service communication across a Kubernetes estate.

The role requires 6+ years in platform engineering or SRE, hands-on production experience with Istio/Linkerd, deep Envoy knowledge, and strong PKI/mTLS, networking, and observability skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Five 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, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms (Istio/Linkerd).
• Ensure secure, observable, and reliable service-to-service communication.
• Lead mesh adoption, mTLS, and traffic policy across Kubernetes estate.
• Collaborate with application teams to maximize mesh benefits with pragmatic approach.

Skills

Kubernetes expertise

Istio/Linkerd experience

Envoy proxy internals

mTLS / PKI knowledge

Observability / tracing

Go or Python scripting

Networking troubleshooting

Platform engineering / SRE

Communication skills

Multi-cluster mesh experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Istio

Linkerd

Envoy

Kubernetes

Cilium

SPIFFE/SPIRE

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Service Infrastructure Engineer for a 100% remote role in the United States. The candidate will design, deploy, and operate Istio and Linkerd service mesh platforms to provide secure, observable, and reliable inter-service communication across a Kubernetes estate.

The role requires 6+ years in platform engineering or SRE, hands-on production experience with Istio/Linkerd, deep Envoy knowledge, and strong PKI/mTLS, networking, and observability skills.