Network Engineer

About Us 

Thrive is a rapidly growing technology solutions provider focusing upon Cloud, Cyber Security, Networking, Disaster Recovery and Managed Services.  Our corporate culture, engineering talent, customer-centric approach, and focus upon “next generation” services help us stand out amongst our peers.  Thrive is on the look-out for individuals who don’t view their weekdays spent at “a job”, but rather look to develop valuable skills that ignite their passion and lead to a CAREER.  If you’re attracted to a “work hard, play hard” environment, seeking the guidance, training and experience necessary to build a lucrative career, then welcome to THRIVE!! 
Position Summary 

The role is a mix of project work and support tasks that focus on the Thrive Cloud platform, working and reporting to the Director, Cloud Networking to help design and deploy network services within Thrive Datacentres.  

There is also an element of client work and consultancy for clients that have nonstandard setups and have more complex requirements. As well getting involved in client DR tests. 

Candidate would be at CCNP level with a minimum of 5+ years of network engineering and administration experience, as well as a bachelor's degree from a related field preferably in Information Technology. 
 

Primary Responsibilities 

• As part of the Network Engineering team, you will be required to assist in designing, implementing and maintaining the regional Thrive Cloud network, as well as Internal networking infrastructure. In the absence of the network manager the expectation is to take a lead on these activities. 

• Research and tailor new networking and security solutions to meet internal and customer’s business requirements. 

• Provide on-call support for network escalations on a rota basis. 

• Assist in the creation of technical documentation such as MS Visio network diagramming, high/low level designs, user guides and knowledge base articles. 

• Frequent visiting of datacentres throughout the USA 
   

Basic Qualifications 

• Excellent communication, problem solving skills with a high attention to detail. 

• Experience with multi-tenant infrastructure – Cisco VRF-Lite, Fortinet VDOMS, Cisco multi-context firewalls 

• In-depth understanding of protocols, routing and networking services such as: 

•  (TCP/IPv4, UDP,DNS, DHCP, NAT, SPAN/RSPAN, SNMPv3 ) 

• In-depth Understanding of switching technology’s such as: 

• (ARP,PVST, RSTP, MST, LACP, HSRP/VRRP) 

•  Excellent understanding of network routing protocols/applications such as:  

• (OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, IP SLA) 

• Route redistribution & filtering, provider independent addressing, ARIN, RIPE 

• Site to Site VPNs – IPSec, GRE, DM VPN, Front door VRF 

• Experience with deploying Nextgen firewalls – URL/App Filtering, Anti-Virus, IPS, SSL Decryption  

• Experience dealing with the following networking hardware: 

• Firewalls – Fortinet, Meraki, Palo Alto, Cisco  

• Cisco ISR and ASR Routing platforms 

• Cisco Nexus – 3k, 9k 

• Cisco Catalyst Access Switches – 3750,3850, 9300 

• Cisco Meraki Wireless Infrastructure 

• WAN Connectivity – Internet and Point to Point Circuits 

• Had exposure to VMWare hosts and SANs plus has also worked on Disaster Recovery tests 

• Experience working in a datacenter environment including racking, stacking, cabling, dealing with SmartHands & arranging cross-connects 

• Accurately designing and documenting client’s infrastructure 

• Experience working with network availability and performance monitoring platforms such as Solarwinds, PRTG & Nable