Network Engineer

About Us

Thrive is an innovative technology solutions provider focused on Cyber Security, Microsoft/Office 365, Hybrid Cloud, Global Network Management, Disaster Recovery, and traditional Managed Services. Our corporate culture, engineering talent, customer-centric approach, and focus upon NextGen services help us stand out among 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 and seek the guidance, training, and experience necessary to build a lucrative career, then welcome to THRIVE!

Position Overview

This position will function as the resource owning the design, execution, and monitoring of the network connecting Thrive’s cloud environment. The Network Engineer will serve as a mentor and escalation point to all technical staff on the overall cloud network environment.

Qualifications
To be successful at this job, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Educational and experience requirements are included.

The following attributes are required

• High School diploma required; technical bachelor's degree or higher strongly preferred
• 5+ experience delivering highly reliable secure network systems in high volume, high availability Data Center Managed Services environments with target of 99.9% uptime or higher
• Experience in a multi-tenancy environment
• Strong knowledge of current IT compliance concepts, issues, practices, methodologies, and trends
• Good problem solving and decision-making skills
• Ability to understand and analyze complex issues
• Must be motivated, detail oriented, highly organized and able to handle a variety of tasks and responsibilities in an efficient manner with a high level of quality
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with clients, vendors, and peers
• Desire to provide the highest levels of service to clients
• Passion to continuously automate processes and tasks
• Must be able to able to create security policy and measure corporate compliance to policy.

• Juniper
  • QFX
  • MX
  • SRX
  • MACSEC
  • BGP
  • OSPF
  • LACP
  • MC-LAG
  • VCF
• Strong network management background with relevant industry recognized certifications
• Advanced experience with routing protocols, TCP/IP, network management, network analysis, and network security
• Experience managing connectivity through carriers
• General understanding of regulatory compliance rules HIPAA, PCI, and SSAE 16 

• F5 BIG-IP LTM
• Palo Alto Networks Firewalls and Panorama
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewalls
• VMware NSX or Nutanix Flow
• CCNP, CCNA, JNCIA, JNCIS, JNCIP, PCCSE, PCNSE, PCNSA, NSE, F5 Certified Professional 
• Experience with Windows Server & Linux
• Experience delivering highly reliable networks disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.

• Work Schedule: Standard business hours
• Travel Requirements: Regular day travel is a requirement of this position with occasional overnight travel
• FBI background check: Applicant selected will be subject to a criminal and credit background investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information