Senior Service Mesh Engineer - Remote (K8s, Istio/Linkerd)

Bright Vision Technologies; Farmington (CT); 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 Kubernetes environments. This remote role emphasizes platform engineering, mesh adoption, and secure traffic management for a scalable cloud estate.

The ideal candidate has production experience with Istio/Linkerd, strong Envoy knowledge, and a practical approach to governance, performance tuning, and cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years in platform engineering, SRE, or networking.
• 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 and operate service mesh platforms across multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.
• Implement and operate mTLS, certificate rotation, and identity propagation.
• Define traffic management policies including routing, retries, circuit breaking, and fault injection.
• Integrate the mesh with ingress, egress, and API gateway tiers.
• Build observability for mesh traffic including distributed tracing and topology visualization.
• Design multi-cluster mesh topologies for high availability and tenant isolation.
• Profile and optimize mesh performance and resource usage.
• Develop onboarding guides that simplify mesh adoption for app teams.
• Implement authorization policies and zero-trust patterns at the mesh layer.
• Operate mesh upgrades and control-plane lifecycle with release discipline.

Skills

Istio

Linkerd

Kubernetes

Envoy

Go or Python

mTLS

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Istio

Linkerd

Envoy

Kubernetes

Cilium

eBPF

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Service Mesh Engineer to design, deploy, and operate Istio and Linkerd across Kubernetes environments. This remote role emphasizes platform engineering, mesh adoption, and secure traffic management for a scalable cloud estate.

The ideal candidate has production experience with Istio/Linkerd, strong Envoy knowledge, and a practical approach to governance, performance tuning, and cross-team collaboration.