Cloud Networking Engineer
About The Position
Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. The Cloud Networking Engineer will design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms, primarily Istio and Linkerd, to provide secure, observable, and reliable service-to-service communication across the Kubernetes estate. The role focuses on platform engineering, mesh adoption, mTLS, traffic policy, and enabling application teams to benefit from a service mesh without unnecessary complexity. The ideal candidate has operated service mesh in production, deeply understands Envoy and the data plane, and applies platform engineering discipline alongside pragmatic adoption strategies. This is a full-time, direct W2 position that is 100% remote within the United States. The salary range is $100,000–$150,000 annually. Candidates eligible to apply include U.S. citizens, Green Card holders, EAD holders, and H-1B transfer candidates; new H-1B visa petitions cannot be sponsored.
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.
- Support secure, observable, and reliable service-to-service communication across the Kubernetes estate.
- 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
