Istio Service Mesh Engineer - Prometheus / Grafana

Our Client is a largest Top 5 Software giant in India, with over 11.3 USD billion dollars revenue, Global work force 2,40,000 employees, It delivers end-to-end technology, consulting, and business process services to clients across the globe, Presence : 60+ countries and Publicly traded company NSE & BSE (India), NYSE (USA).

Job Title : Istio Service Mesh Engineer

Location : Bangalore / Chennai

Experience : 7+years

Job Type : Contract to hire

Notice Period : Immediate joiners

payroll : People Prime

Client : MNC Client

Mandatory Skill :

Istio Service Mesh Engineer,Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Helm, Terraform, Ansible,AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, scripting skills in Bash or Python.

Job Summary :

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Istio 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 :

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