Senior Developer - Service Mesh

Senior Developer / Cloud Engineer Service Mesh

Work Location : Whitefield, Bangalore

Work Mode: Hybrid

Exp: 10+ years

• Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture and networking.
• Hands-on experience with Service Mesh framework - Istio .
• Experience with mTLS, service discovery, sidecar injection, and ingress/egress gateways.
• Familiarity with Helm, Kustomize, or other Kubernetes deployment tools.
• Knowledge of CI/CD integration and GitOps practices.
• Experience with observability tools: Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Kiali, Fluentd, ELK stack, etc.
• Proficiency in scripting (Bash, Python, or Go preferred).
• Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Knowledge of security principles for microservices and zero-trust architecture.

We are looking for a skilled engineer to lead the implementation and optimization of a Service Mesh architecture across our microservices ecosystem. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Istio, Linkerd, Consul, or AWS App Mesh, and will be responsible for defining architecture, enabling observability, enforcing policies, and improving security and traffic management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and manage a Service Mesh (e.g., Istio, Linkerd) to support secure, scalable, and observable microservices communication.
• Define traffic routing policies, such as canary releases, blue-green deployments, and retries/failovers.
• Implement mutual TLS (mTLS), authorization, and access policies for service-to-service communication.
• Integrate the service mesh with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, etc.) f or metrics, tracing, and logging.
• Work closely with development, SRE, and security teams to align mesh configuration with application requirements and security standards.
• Provide performance tuning, troubleshooting, and incident response related to mesh components.
• Document best practices and provide knowledge transfer to internal teams.