Service Mesh Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies • Hoffman Estates, IL

23h • $95,000 - $115,000 • Remote

About The Position

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking 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 production service-mesh operations experience, a deep understanding of Envoy and the data plane, and a pragmatic approach to platform engineering and adoption.

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.
• The posting lists 7+ years of experience in its position details.

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 Kubernetes environments.
• Focus on platform engineering, mesh adoption, mTLS, and traffic policy.
• Help application teams adopt and benefit from a service mesh without unnecessary complexity.
• Troubleshoot issues across networking, application, and control plane layers.
• Develop tooling and automation using Go or Python.

What This Job Offers

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