Platform Networking Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies • Overland Park, KS

2d • $140,000 - $155,000 • Remote

About The Position

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Platform Network Engineer, described in the job summary as a Service Mesh 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, 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, understands Envoy and the data plane deeply, and applies platform engineering discipline and pragmatic adoption strategies.

This is a full-time, direct W-2 position based 100% remotely in the United States. The listed salary range is $140,000–$155,000 annually. The posting encourages applications from U.S. citizens, green card holders, EAD holders, and H-1B transfer candidates; the company cannot sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.

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.
• 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 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: Senior