Job Summary:
We are seeking a skilled and experienced Senior Service Mesh Engineer to support, manage, and optimize Istio service mesh environments. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Kubernetes, cloud-native networking, and microservices architecture, with hands-on experience deploying and maintaining Istio in production environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deploy, configure, and manage Istio service mesh for Kubernetes-based applications.
- Monitor and troubleshoot service mesh components, ensuring high availability and performance.
- Implement security best practices, including mTLS, authorization policies, and authentication mechanisms within Istio.
- Work closely with development and operations teams to optimize microservices communication and observability using Istio.
- Design and implement Istio-based traffic management strategies, including routing, circuit breaking, load balancing, and canary deployments.
- Automate deployment and configuration of Istio components using Helm and other DevOps tools.
- Perform regular upgrades and maintenance of Istio and associated components.
- Provide technical guidance, documentation, and training to teams on Istio service mesh best practices.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Minimum of a bachelor's degree of an accredited university in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of experience in service mesh configuration and administration, and enterprise system integration with internal and external business systems.
- Strong understanding of service mesh architecture, networking, and security principles.
- Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog.
- Proficiency in automation tools such as Helm, Terraform, or Ansible.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with cloud platforms - Azure
- 3+ years of strong scripting skills in Bash or Python.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps methodologies.
- Familiarity with Certificate management.
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Istio Certified Associate or similar certification.
- Experience with multi-cluster or hybrid cloud service mesh deployments.
- Knowledge of service discovery and API gateways like Envoy or Kong.
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