Istio Professional

Key Responsibilities:

• Configure Envoy filters to log selective API traffic at ingress/egress.
• Manage Istio telemetry v2 and integrate with OpenTelemetry Collector.
• Define service-level span mapping for end-to-end trace continuity.
• Optimize logging performance using sampling, filtering, and buffering techniques.
• Troubleshoot missing spans and latency in service mesh observability.

Technical Skills:

• Istio, Envoy Proxy, and Kubernetes
• Lua filters and custom access logging
• OpenTelemetry integration
• FluentBit / Fluentd for log forwarding
• Deep understanding of HTTP/ gRPC protocols