Network Engineer at Safety Net

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

Life at Safety Net

Safety Net is an award-winning IT services firm dedicated to helping great companies run even better. We support businesses throughout Michigan from our offices in Traverse City and Farmington Hills, and have been since 2003. With a focus on security and excellence, we strive to be a strategic business partner to those we support.

Our specialty is Your Net managed services -- everything that organizations need for IT security and reliability. Your Net is an ideal fit for organizations with strong security and compliance needs, such as banks and credit unions, healthcare providers, retail organizations, manufacturers, and more.

There are plenty of IT providers offering managed services with 24/7 IT support. Safety Net's people, process and tools are what differentiates us.

â€¢ Our friendly, highly trained staff is comprised of small teams, organized and specialized by client industry. Safety Net's rigorous hiring process attracts some of the best IT talent in Michigan. We work hard to take great care of our staff so they can take great care of our clients.

â€¢ Every process at Safety Net is playbooked, on a checklist, and/or scripted to exacting standards. We've spent years honing these processes and we're constantly improving them with client feedback.

â€¢ Most managed service providers (MSPs) offer some form of 24/7 remote monitoring of clients' IT systems. Very few invest in perfecting the tools and diligently updating them like we do! Safety Net has staff positions dedicated to auditing and maintaining these systems.

These are just a few of the ways that Safety Net works to keep our clients' businesses and IT environments running smoothly and better protected.

Ready to experience great IT with a great MSP? Get in touch with us today.

Network Engineer

About Us

Position Summary

Primary Responsibilities

Basic Qualifications

Life at Safety Net

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