Network Engineer

About Us

Thrive is a rapidly growing technology solutions provider focusing on 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 among our peers. Thrive seeks individuals who view their weekdays as opportunities to develop valuable skills, ignite their passion, and build 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, welcome to THRIVE!!

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 datacenters. There is also an element of client work and consultancy for clients that have nonstandard setups and more complex requirements, as well as involvement in client DR tests.

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

• Assist in designing, implementing and maintaining the regional Thrive Cloud network and internal networking infrastructure. In the absence of the network manager, take a lead on these activities.
• Research and tailor new networking and security solutions to meet internal and customer 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.
• Frequently visit data centres throughout the USA.

• Excellent communication, problem‑solving skills with 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, SNMPv
  3.
• In‑depth understanding of switching technologies 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, DMVPN, Front Door VRF.
• Experience deploying next‑gen firewalls – URL/App filtering, Anti‑Virus, IPS, SSL decryption.
• Experience dealing with 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; WAN connectivity – internet and point‑to‑point circuits.
• Exposure to VMware hosts and SANs plus work on disaster recovery tests.
• Experience in datacenter environment including racking, stacking, cabling, Smart Hands, cross‑connects.
• Accurate design and documentation of client infrastructure.
• Experience with network availability and performance monitoring platforms such as Solar Winds, PRTG & N‑able.

• Seniority level:
  Mid‑Senior level
• Employment type:
  
  Full‑time
• Job function:
  Information Technology
• Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting