Translations Engineer

Job Title: Contract Translations Engineer

Location: Charlotte North Carolina 28277 (100% Remote)

Duration: 12 months, with Potential to extend

Type: Contract

Pay Rate: $31 per hour on W2

Work Hours: 40-hour work week. (8 am – 6 pm ET) – estimate (EST AND CST CANDIDATES or OPEN TO ASJUST TO EST TIME ZONE)

Additional Notes:

Required Skills & Experience

• Computer engineering degree with relevant experience; fundamentals of TDM trunking, IP-centric technology as well
• MS Office, TIRKS, and Telnet are a hard must.
• TDM voice switch experience is non-negotiable.
• 2/3 switching platform knowledge.
• Strong trunk and switching provisioning experience and knowledge are non-negotiable.
• Switches: 5ESS, DCO, DMS-10, DMS-100, C20, EWSD, GTD-5; SIP technology
• Self-motivated, requires minimal intervention, good communication skills
• Microsoft technology

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Engineering , or equivalent telecom/military experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with voice translations engineering in carrier-class networks.
• Strong knowledge of TDM voice switching, call routing, trunking, signaling, screening, and numbering .
• Good understanding of SIP, SS7, ISUP/Q.764, Q.931 , and voice-network architecture.
• Experience with SS7 signaling , including A-Links, STPs, signaling routing, and translations.
• Experience supporting network migrations, switch consolidations, modernization, network rearrangements, and telecom capital projects .
• Ability to analyze existing network configurations and develop accurate translations/network changes .
• Experience creating and executing MOPs, implementation procedures, test plans, validation plans, and back-out plans .
• Strong troubleshooting skills across call routing, signaling, trunking, and translations .
• Experience working within formal change-management processes and maintenance windows .
• Comfortable with PuTTY, SecureCRT, MS Word, and Excel .
• Ability to coordinate with engineering, operations, transport, signaling, project management, and vendors .
• Ability to manage multiple projects and meet implementation deadlines.

Desired Skills

• Experience with Ribbon, SBCs, media gateways, Stratus , or similar carrier-class voice platforms.
• Experience with circuit emulation and transporting legacy TDM services over packet networks.
• TDM-to-SIP voice migration experience.
• Carrier-class trunk groups, routing plans, numbering plans, signaling configurations, and interoffice networks .
• Voice-network modernization, switch decommissioning/consolidation , or legacy-platform retirement.
• Background as a Translations Engineer, Central Office Technician, Voice NOC Engineer , or similar.
• Scripting/data-processing experience with Python, Perl, VBScript , or similar.
• Experience with pre/post-change validation and troubleshooting customer-impacting voice issues .

What You Will Be Doing

• Analyze legacy TDM voice configurations and determine translations required for migration to SIP/CSP infrastructure .
• Design and implement translations for call routing, trunking, signaling, screening, numbering, and traffic migration .
• Support migration of voice trunks, signaling, and ancillary TDM services .
• Develop MOPs, scripts, command sequences, test plans, validation procedures, and back-out plans .
• Perform pre-change analysis to identify routing conflicts, signaling issues, dependencies, capacity concerns, and potential service impacts .
• Implement approved network changes during scheduled maintenance windows.
• Perform post-migration testing and validation of call routing, trunks, signaling, and network functions.
• Troubleshoot TDM/SIP interoperability, translations, signaling, and call-processing issues .
• Coordinate with network engineering, operations, transport, signaling teams, project managers, and vendors , including Ribbon and Stratus.
• Maintain detailed project documentation, network configurations, test results, and implementation records.
• Identify and communicate technical risks, dependencies, and implementation concerns .
• Manage translations deliverables across multiple concurrent telecom projects .
• Serve as a subject-matter expert for legacy voice translations and SIP/CSP migration .