Job Title: Network Engineer Project Lead (Telephony Engineer) ( 13295)
Location: Columbia, SC 29208
Work Arrangement: 100% Onsite
Openings: 2
Duration: 6 Months
Candidate Requirements- Candidate must be a South Carolina resident or willing to relocate to South Carolina prior to starting at their own expense.
- Candidates must be U.S. Citizens or Legal Residents.
- Role is fully onsite; remote work is not available.
- Must be able to participate in an on-call rotation and perform occasional after-hours maintenance and incident response.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
Required Skills- 2+ years of experience with Avaya on-premise PBX systems.
- 2+ years administering VoIP and Unified Communications platforms.
- 2+ years of experience with SIP, RTP, QoS, dial plans, call routing, and voice gateway technologies.
- 2+ years troubleshooting voice quality, call routing, carrier connectivity, and E911 services.
- 2+ years supporting telecommunications infrastructure including:
- Voice circuits
- Session Border Controllers (SBCs)
- PSTN integration
Preferred Skills- Experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise cloud-based telephony solutions.
- Experience migrating on-premise telephony/PBX environments to cloud-based telephony services.
Responsibilities- Provide operational and advanced administration of enterprise telephony and unified communications environments.
- Handle moves, adds, changes, and disconnects (MACD) for voice and voicemail services.
- Support conference services, safety devices, telephone IVR, call center environments, vectoring, and unified communications services.
- Maintain accurate E911/911 location information.
- Configure, install, maintain, and troubleshoot:
- Avaya telephony systems
- Media gateways
- IP telephones
- Voice circuits
- Safety devices
- Voice networking infrastructure
- Analyze and troubleshoot vector routing, ARS routing tables, route patterns, dial plans, and call routing.
- Diagnose voice-quality issues, carrier connectivity problems, PSTN issues, and service outages.
- Work with telecommunications vendors and carriers to provision circuits and resolve outages.
- Provide engineer-level support for enterprise telephony and unified communications incidents.
- Serve as a primary technical escalation point for complex telephony issues.
- Coordinate with infrastructure, network, vendor, and support teams during outages.
- Research, design, and implement improvements to the enterprise telephony environment.
- Perform quality assurance testing for telephony configurations and changes.
- Monitor telephony and network systems to improve uptime and proactively identify problems.
- Identify opportunities to automate operational telephony processes and collaborate with automation teams on implementation.
- Develop and maintain system diagrams, technical documentation, configuration standards, processes, troubleshooting notes, and knowledge-base articles.
- Follow established Incident Management and Change Management processes.
- Provide technical recommendations regarding the strategic direction of enterprise telephony services.
Additional Qualifications- Strong knowledge of telephone network services and telephone network design.
- Advanced systems administration knowledge.
- Ability to clearly communicate technical and non-technical information.
- Strong customer-service and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work effectively with vendors, management, technical teams, and end users.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced enterprise environment.
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