About the role

Role Overview

Bright Vision Technologies is hiring a Kubernetes Service Engineer to design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms across a Kubernetes estate. You will primarily work with Istio and Linkerd, enabling secure, observable, and reliable service-to-service communication.

Responsibilities

Design and operate service mesh platforms (primarily Istio and Linkerd) across multi-cluster Kubernetes environments
Implement and manage mTLS, including certificate rotation and identity propagation
Define traffic management policies (routing, retries, circuit breaking, fault injection)
Integrate the mesh with ingress, egress, and API gateway tiers for unified traffic management
Build observability for mesh traffic using distributed tracing, golden signals, and topology visualization
Design multi-cluster/cross-cluster mesh topologies for high availability and tenant isolation
Profile and optimize mesh performance (sidecar resource usage and control-plane footprint) using measurement and data-driven validation
Create paved-road adoption patterns, onboarding guides, and enablement for application teams
Implement authorization policies and zero-trust patterns at the service mesh layer
Operate mesh upgrades, control-plane lifecycle management, and configuration governance with disciplined release practices
Partner with SRE, platform, and security teams on mesh policy and incident response
Troubleshoot complex networking, mTLS, and traffic issues across sidecar and gateway tiers
Maintain runbooks, architecture diagrams, and onboarding materials

Requirements

6+ years in platform engineering, SRE, or networking
Hands-on, production experience operating Istio or Linkerd
Deep understanding of Envoy (proxy internals and configuration)
Strong 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

Nice to Have

Experience with multi-cluster Istio/Linkerd deployments
Familiarity with Cilium 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

About Bright Vision Technologies

Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. The company works with established teams to build and operate modern platforms and services, with a focus on delivering scalable enterprise outcomes.