Cloud Networking Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies • Sugar Land, TX

1d • $100,000 - $150,000 • Remote

About The Position

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Cloud Networking Engineer to design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms, primarily Istio and Linkerd, for secure, observable, and reliable service-to-service communication across its Kubernetes estate. The role focuses on platform engineering, service mesh adoption, mTLS, and traffic policy, while helping application teams benefit from a service mesh without unnecessary complexity. The ideal candidate has operated service mesh in production, understands Envoy and its data plane deeply, and brings platform engineering discipline alongside pragmatic adoption strategies.

The position is 100% remote within the United States and is full-time, direct W2. The stated salary range is $100,000–$150,000 annually. The employer is unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions; U.S. citizens, Green Card holders, EAD holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with multi-cluster Istio or Linkerd deployments.
• Familiarity with Cilium service mesh and eBPF networking.
• Open-source contributions to service mesh projects.
• Experience with SPIFFE/SPIRE for workload identity.
• Exposure to zero-trust networking initiatives at enterprise scale.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms, primarily Istio and Linkerd, across a Kubernetes estate.
• Support secure, observable, and reliable service-to-service communication.
• Drive platform engineering and service mesh adoption, including mTLS and traffic policy.
• Help application teams adopt service mesh capabilities without unnecessary complexity.
• Troubleshoot issues across networking, application, and control plane layers.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level