Senior Unified Communications Engineer

AHU Technologies Inc; Falls Church (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT consulting firm is seeking a Senior Unified Communications Engineer to oversee the installation and support of Cisco systems, ensuring the District Government’s voice and video communications are operational. The ideal candidate will possess CCNP certification and extensive experience in managing complex communication systems.

Qualifications

• Required 8 years of experience with Cisco Unity Connection.
• 11+ years conveying technical and functional concepts.
• 11+ years preparing complex technical documentation.

Responsibilities

• Maintains core infrastructure for Cisco Voice and Video systems.
• Migrates Cisco voice and video devices to Cisco Webex Calling.
• Works with other engineers on test plans and implementation.

Skills

Cisco Unity Connection Experience

Technical documentation

Conveying technical concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or related field

Cisco Certification Network Professional (CCNP)

Job description

This position serves as Senior Unified Communications Engineer responsible for assisting the DC-Net Voice Eng PM in carrying out the District Government’s responsibility in supporting the District of Columbia’s city-wide Voice and Video communication.

Complete Description:

This position serves as Senior Unified Communications Engineer responsible for assisting the DC-Net Voice Engineering Program Manager in carrying out the District Government’s responsibility in supporting the District of Columbia’s city-wide Voice and Video communication.

Major Duties

· Maintains core infrastructure for Cisco Voice and Video systems. Responsible for installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of voice and video equipment and applications. Interfaces with customers, contractors, and vendors to resolve system and Cisco Unified Communications problems, and other issues.

· Installs and upgrades the following Cisco voice systems: Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM), Cisco Unity Connection (CUC), Session Manager Edition (SME), Expressways, Emergency Response systems, SRST, and voice gateways.

· Migrates Cisco voice systems from Cisco UCS legacy infrastructure to Cisco Hyperflex.

· Migrates Cisco voice and video devices from on-premises infrastructure to Cisco Webex Calling.

· Implementation of monitoring tools for all Cisco voice core infrastructure and Cisco voice applications. Handles alarms with corrective measures or escalates to Cisco TAC for additional support to resolve issues.

· Program Cisco voice and video devices in bulk. Runs reports from GUI interfaces and/or CLI

· Accepts escalated trouble tickets from other Unified Communications team members. Analyzes and diagnoses complex problems and recommends corrective measures within an appropriate response time in accordance with service level policies.

· Works closely with other senior Unified Communications engineers and management to develop test plans and implementation strategies for new products and services.

· Participates in on-call rotational UC operation support program and always carries communication device(s). Monitors the communication device(s) for trouble tickets and/or outages and responds to operational requests either as primary or standby on-call representation.

· Creates implementation and test plans for changes in production. Implements configuration changes in accordance with the change management processes and procedures, submits change requests to Change Advisory Board (CAB) and attends meetings to defend the requests in front of the advisory board.

Required:

· Cisco Certification Network Professional (CCNP)

· Mastery knowledge of Cisco Collaboration products and technology to design, deploy, and operate associated hardware and software is required.

CONTRACT JOB DESCRIPTION

Responsibilities:

· Demonstrates expertise in conveying technical and functional concepts for a specific technical specialty.

· Identifies improvements to project standards to achieve high quality services/products.

· Identifies best practices and standards for the use of the product.

· Delivers support and design for industry specific technologies that require integration with systems or networks.

· Interacts with executive level business users or technical experts.

· Functions as a niche technical SME.

· Lead experience with technical expertise across large, complex implementations for systems.

Skills:

· CISCO Unity Connection Experience. Required 8 Years

· 11-15 yrs. conveying technical and functional concepts for a specific technical specialty

Required 11 Years

· 11-15 yrs. preparing complex technical documentation. Required 11 Years

· Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience. Required

· Cisco Certification Network Professional (CCNP). Required

Compensation: $73.00 - $81.00 per hour

About Us

AHU Technologies INC. is an IT consulting and permanent staffing firm that meets and exceeds the evolving IT service needs of leading corporations within the United States. We have been providing IT solutions to customers from different industry sectors, helping them control costs and release internal resources to focus on strategic issues.

AHU Technologies INC. was co-founded by visionary young techno-commercial entrepreneurs who remain as our principal consultants. Maintaining working relationships with a cadre of other highly skilled independent consultants, we have a growing number of resources available for development projects. We are currently working on Various projects such as media entertainment, ERP Solutions, data warehousing, Web Applications, Telecommunications and medical to our clients all over the world.

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