Remote Position
[Remote] Platform Networking Engineer
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Platform Networking Engineer to design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms, primarily Istio and Linkerd. The role focuses on platform engineering, mesh adoption, mTLS, traffic policy, and supporting application teams in adopting service mesh pragmatically.
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms — primarily Istio and Linkerd — that provide secure, observable, and reliable service-to-service communication across our Kubernetes estate
- The role focuses on platform engineering, mesh adoption, mTLS, traffic policy, and helping application teams reap the benefits of a mesh without paying for unnecessary complexity
Skills
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- 100% Remote (U.S.)
- Tremendous career growth potential
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