Azure Service Mesh Istio

Dear Candidates

Position - Azure Service Mesh ISTIO (Service Mesh)

Exp - 6 to 10 Years

Skills Required - Service Mesh Istio (Azure)

Essential Functions

Lead Istio Configurations: Maintain and lead the team in managing Istio configurations, including gateway management, ingress/egress, control planes, data planes, Envoy filters, Istio and Envoy gateways, performance, traffic management, and security policies.

Azure Support: Oversee the support, maintenance, and operations of deployed Azure items.

Design and Development: Develop reusable patterns for managing applications within a single cluster environment related to Istio deployment.

• Client Interaction: Communicate effectively with clients, providing recommendations on Istio and AKS operations.
• Security Collaboration: Work with security teams to advise or implement controls.

Minimum Requirements

Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or 2 years of applicable experience with Istio and AKS.

Hands-On Experience: Proficiency with technologies such as Terraform, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Istio Service Mesh, Envoy, network policies, Flux, GitOps, security configurations, application segregation within a cluster, multiple node pools, connectivity troubleshooting, Azure Container Registry, Docker/Containerization, GitHub CI/CD Pipelines, Linux shell, Windows PowerShell, and SSL configurations.

Having terraform knowledge is nice to have. Candidate must be willing to learn Terraform to assist with IaC operations in the future.

Qualifications/Certifications:

• Istio Certified Associate or three years of hands-on experience supporting Istio configurations
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate or Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Administrator certifications or two years of supporting and deploying azure resources.

Optional Certifications: Istio Certified Associate, HashiCorp Cloud Engineer Certification, GitHub Actions Certification, GitHub

Interested candidates kindly share your resume at vim.s.shaw@pwc.com

Regards

Vim Kumar Shaw

vim.s.shaw@pwc.com