Role: Istio Mesh Engineer Location: Dallas, TX /Remote Job Description: Design, deploy, and operate Istio service mesh on AKS (ingress/egress gateways, traffic shifting, retries/timeouts, circuit breaking). Enforce zero-trust service-to-service security with MTLS, Authorization Policy, PeerAuthentication, and RequestAuthentication. Drive kubenet Azure CNI transition (including Azure CNI Overlay), with IP planning, subnetting, IPAM, and routing/NSG alignment. Implement and validate Kubernet