UCC Engineer

UCC Engineer ====================

The UCC Engineer will be responsible for designing and implementing Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC) solutions for the organisation. This includes ensuring that infrastructure designs and technologies are in compliance with corporate strategy, principles and standards, and industry best practices.

Responsibilities ---------------

• Assumes subject matter expert (SME) responsibility for applications and infrastructure.
• Ensures that infrastructure designs and technologies are in compliance with corporate strategy, principles and standards, and industry best practices.
• Continually evaluates infrastructure effectiveness, develops technical direction, and upgrade initiatives.
• Develops tactical (short-term) and strategic (long-term) technical solutions that will address business and IT requirements.
• Implements and maintains systems and technologies (edge systems, message hygiene, and data encryption) to protect data availability, message confidentiality and integrity.
• Reviews and documents existing infrastructure and operating procedures, including developing engineering diagrams, operations manuals, and run books.
• Identifies and evaluates new products and solutions that will augment the existing infrastructure, improve reliability and security, and increase user experience.
• Develops, documents and implements engineering processes to test and implement updates, and patches. Reviews internal security vulnerability reports for action.
• Analyzes system health, capacity and performance. Recommends platform improvements where applicable, identifies and raises risks, and provides metrics and reporting.
• Contributes to the design, development, and execution of system lifecycle from inception through deprecation.
• Operates with moderate supervision in routine matters, develops and monitors work plan/task lists for medium scale assignments that would be part of a larger project plan, and exercises independent judgment in problem resolution.
• Provides 24/7/365 operations support for business critical systems as part of the global IT team.

Qualifications/Skills Required ---------------------------

• Minimum five years operations and engineering experience with Cisco voice and video infrastructure and endpoints.
• Minimum three years experience with trader voice turret systems, preferably IPC Unigy.
• Experience with trader voice connections such as tie-down lines, hoots, ARD, and MRDs.
• Experience with voice recording technologies, preferably NICE NTR and NTR-X.
• Experience with Cisco UCM, Cisco Expressways, SIP trunking, dial plans, least cost routing, SBCs, carrier interfaces, QoS.
• Experience with WebEx, Zoom, and Teams from an end user feature and administrative perspective.
• Experience troubleshooting voice and video performance issue, both corporate and Internet-based.
• Experience reviewing, recommending, and certifying voice and video endpoints, as well as peripherals such as headsets, webcams and speakerphones.
• Broad knowledge of network design, virtualization (VMware, Citrix, Microsoft), storage (SAN, NAS, Local Storage), routing/switching/firewalls, load balancing, and monitoring (SCOM, SolarWinds).
• Experience with developing and successfully implementing architected designs and engineering processes that meet the business requirements and leverage industry best practices/standards.
• Proficient in at least one scripting/programming language (Python, PowerShell, etc.) with the ability automate repetitive administrative tasks.
• BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.