Platform Networking Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential. Job Title: Platform Network Engineer Location: 100% Remote (U.S.) Position Type: Full-time, Direct W2 Salary Range: $100,000–$150,000 Annually Experience Required: 6+ years Sponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position. Job Summary: We are looking for a Service Mesh Engineer to 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. The ideal candidate has operated service mesh in production, deeply understands Envoy and the data plane, and brings both platform engineering discipline and pragmatic adoption strategies. Key Responsibilities Design and operate service mesh platforms — primarily Istio and Linkerd — across multi-cluster Kubernetes environments. Implement and operate mTLS, certificate rotation, and identity propagation across the mesh. Define traffic management policies including routing, retries, circuit breaking, and fault injection. Integrate the mesh with ingress, egress, and API gateway tiers for unified traffic management. Build observability for mesh traffic including distributed tracing, golden signals, and topology visualization. Design multi-cluster and cross-cluster mesh topologies for high availability and tenant isolation. Profile and optimize mesh performance, sidecar resource usage, and control-plane foot