NEAT Rack is Richweb's structured network engineering apprenticeship program. Participants start from scratch and work through a hands-on curriculum built on production-grade equipment and software - the same tools Richweb engineers use every day on real customer infrastructure. By the end of the program, interns have designed, configured, and troubleshot networks that most engineers only read about in textbooks.
The program is entirely lab-driven. Interns work through a hands-on curriculum that starts with foundational infrastructure and progressively layers in more complexity, with each lesson building directly on the last.
The curriculum is divided into six technical areas, each covered through written lessons and hands-on lab work.
Debian Linux from a bare install, KVM hypervisor setup, and virtual machine management - the foundation everything else runs on.
Juniper JunOS configured from scratch over serial console. VLANs, trunking, Layer 3 switching, and PoE on real hardware.
Static routing, then OSPF, using the BIRD daemon on Linux alongside Juniper and Cisco. Interns see exactly why dynamic routing exists.
OpenBSD with pf for packet filtering and NAT, then GRE tunnels with IPsec encryption layered on top and verified with tcpdump.
Multi-router BGP topologies with iBGP and eBGP peering, plus a dual-stack lab running IPv4 and IPv6 side by side.
3CX PBX deployment, extension configuration, and provisioning hard phones and soft phones across the lab network.
NEAT Rack is how Richweb grows its engineering team. If you're early in your career and want to build real infrastructure skills alongside people who take their craft seriously, we'd like to hear from you.
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