Sr. Unified Comms Engineer - Federal Customer
(On-Site 5 Days per week, Chantilly, VA - TS/SCI Required)
The Unified Communications Engineer supports Dell Mission Operations by engineering, sustaining, and improving voice and collaboration capabilities used for day-to-day mission execution. This role is responsible for administration, troubleshooting, integration, and lifecycle support of communications platforms and endpoints in a secure environment. The ideal candidate brings strong UC fundamentals, customer-facing problem solving, and the ability to maintain dependable collaboration services under mission requirements.
Key responsibilities
- Administer and support voice, telephony, conferencing, or collaboration platforms
- Troubleshoot service issues involving call quality, endpoints, connectivity, or platform configuration
- Support implementation, upgrades, and integration of communications solutions
- Maintain documentation, diagrams, operating procedures, and support records
- Coordinate with network, systems, and field teams on platform dependencies and changes
- Support user issues, service requests, and operational continuity activities
- Contribute to testing, validation, and service improvement efforts
- Help ensure secure, stable, and supportable communications capabilities
- Provide reports to relevant stakeholders and participate in leadership level design and engineering decisions
Required qualifications
- Experience supporting unified communications, VoIP, telephony, or collaboration environments
- Strong troubleshooting and customer-support skills
- Familiarity with endpoint integration, platform administration, and service support processes
- Understanding of network and QoS concepts related to voice and collaboration services
- Ability to work onsite in a secure environment
- Experience with video, AV, conferencing, or call-management environments
- Familiarity with SIP, secure voice, or enterprise communications architectures
- 15+ years of relevant experience with a bachelor's degree
- Active TS/SCI and ability to maintain access as required by the program
Core Competencies - Leadership
- Problem-Solving: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues in distributed systems.
- Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills to collaborate effectively with development teams, operations, security, and other stakeholders.
- Collaboration: Ability to work effectively in a team environment and lead technical initiatives.
- Mentorship: As a Senior role, the ability to guide and mentor junior engineers, share knowledge, and foster best practices.
- Proactive & Ownership: Proactive approach to identifying and addressing potential issues, with a strong sense of ownership over the platform.
- Adaptability & Continuous Learning: Eagerness to learn new technologies and adapt to a rapidly evolving cloud-native landscape.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with Cisco UC or similar platforms
- Experience in government or classified environments
- Lead experience guiding standards, design choices, or junior engineers
Work environment / program context
This role supports communications capabilities that users depend on every day. Lead-level roles will provide technical direction, lead escalations, and maintain ownership of standards.