Sr UC/ VOIP Engineer-Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sr UC/ VOIP Engineer

Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Position Type: Contract

Work Status: US Citizen/Green Card

Rate: DOE (C2C/W2/1099)

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for design, configuration, and support of a resilient (clustered) IP based PBX across two data centers.
• Participate / Lead multi-discipline design teams to provide solutions and capacity planning of equipment and VoIP infrastructure including trading turrets
• Designs, develops, configures and sustains engineering support of VoIP network interfaces to the PSTN including; IP SIP switch, Application Server, Media Gateway, and Session Border Controllers
• Provide Tier 3 team escalation and interface with vendors to resolve all issues as required
• Responsible for researching emerging technologies with respect to unified communications to address client business needs and requirements.
• Responds to issue escalation and service interruption as a confident technical leader.
• Provide Operation Support on & off hours, build and/or upgrade support.
• Develops standard configurations, procedures and guidelines for selecting, installing and deploying integrated solutions and platforms within the VoIP environment
• Keep abreast of industry and technology trends, available products and services in support of IP Telephony / Collaboration
• Create design documentation including "as built" documents, design summaries, migration plans, and Visio diagrams as appropriate.
• Maintains effective external relationships with vendors, consultants, and service providers; leverages these relationships to ensure that the best fit solutions and resources are available to the firm.

Essential Qualifications:

• 7 – 10 years of experience in engineering and supporting large, carrier grade, multisite network deployments.
• In depth experience with Cisco Unified Communications Manager v10.5
• 5 years experience with switch translations, session management, session border controllers, SIP Lines/Trunks, and media gateways
• 5 years experience with Unity Voicemal, Jabber, Webex, and VCS Expressway.
• 3 – 5 years experience deploying and supporting collaboration tools using integrated voice, video, and data architectures
• Experience with IPC Unigy 2.0 Turrets / Hoot& Holler (IPC)
• Experience with Internet routing protocols, TDM, SONET, and voice technologies (SS7/C7, SIP, MGCP), VMWare, Linux Appliances, and SAN Storage,
• Familiar with database concepts and client&;server concepts

Required Skills/Competencies:

• In depth experience with VoIP networking / technical proficiency in LAN/WAN architectures
• Experience with CUCM, Unity Voice Mail, Cisco 29xx / 39xx routers
• Experience with implementation and operation of virtual infrastructures.
• Functional knowledge of core networking concepts
• Regimented change and release management methodology.
• Experience with current best practices in IT standards, principles, and security practices
• Excellent technical documentation skills
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and mentoring skills

Required Certifications/Registrations:

N/A

Required Years of Experience:

5+

Preferred Education/Experience:

• Bachelors Degree in engineering, computer science, or related discipline
• ITIL v3 Certification in Service Delivery
• Working knowledge of financial industry.