Cloud Networking Engineer
About The Position
Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Cloud Networking Engineer to design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms, primarily Istio and Linkerd, to provide secure, observable, and reliable service-to-service communication across its Kubernetes estate. The role focuses on platform engineering, mesh adoption, mutual TLS (mTLS), traffic policy, and helping application teams 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 in the United States. The stated salary range is $100,000–$150,000 annually. Applicants with six or more years of experience are sought. The employer is unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions, but 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.
- Six or more years of experience, as stated in the posting’s experience summary.
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.
- Provide secure, observable, and reliable service-to-service communication across the Kubernetes estate.
- Support platform engineering and service mesh adoption, including mTLS and traffic policy.
- Help application teams use 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
