VoIP Engineer

TWD Senior VoIP Engineer Vanguard 2.2.1 Position Description Position Description: The Department of State, Bureau of Information Resource Management (IRM) Telecommunications, Wireless, and Data (TWD) Division provides its users with mission critical domestic LAN/WAN data and voice services across multiple locations in the DC Metro Area. In support of these services, the Voice Engineer provides voice engineering, with a focus on voice/real-time communications. This VoIP Engineer provides project support as well as operations support required for Avaya PBX and Cisco data functions related to telecommunications that includes, but is not limited to day-to-day O&M escalation support, system upgrades/enhancements, as well as ongoing projects and day-to-day moves, adds, changes (MACs) working closely with the TWD Project Management Organization (PMO) and Voice Team Lead. Cisco voice experience will be considered in lieu of limited Avaya experience, but significant Avaya experience is required .Description of Daily Duties:

• Supports voice engineering initiatives for all project-related and ongoing operations support for voice communications services.
• Works closely with PMO Data/Voice Lead and TWD Project Managers to review customer requirements and develops basis of estimates (BOEs), list of material forms, circuit order request forms (CORFs)/quotes, and engineering implementation plans for all project-related initiatives.
• Implements and troubleshoots enterprise Voice-related solutions/incidents/system outages.
• Analyze system logs and identifying potential issues with Telecommunication
• Recommends and integrate new Telecommunication Voice, Video and Unified Communications technologies.
• Monitors the Telecommunication Network infrastructure and support state-of-the-art Monitoring and Reporting tools for proactive management to minimize outages to phone systems.
• Monitors, review, recommend, test, and implement new software revision/feature sets/patch evaluation and trade studies, periodic system refresh
• Responds to escalated incidents and service requests from TWD Service Delivery/Operations Teams, coordinates planned maintenance activities, coordinates/facilitates planned/unplanned service outages, and ongoing project-related support activities;
• Frequently communicates with Team Leads on upcoming projects, system maintenance activities, and unplanned events to ensure staff are prepared to support the Department
• Promptly responds to all critical/high and/ or VIP incidents or service requests and resolves within service level targets and/or scheduled timeframes.
• Monitors ticket queues are actively monitored to ensure customer tickets and service requests are promptly addressed.
• Maintain enterprise awareness of system maintenance and outages, as well as world events that could impact IT operations.
• Communicates all planned/unplanned service outages to management/leads and Senior Watch Officers supporting the IT Operations Center.

• Bachelor's Degree in related technical discipline and/or 5+ years of IT/Voice-related experience in lieu of degree

• Candidate should have recent VoIP experience on an enterprise network, including implementation of QoS for H.323 and/or Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) technology
• Strong LAN/WAN/MAN experience with a focus on WAN services (ISDN, Frame-Relay, Point-to-Point, DMVPN, METRO ETHERNET, VPLS, TLS, and MPLS).
• Working knowledge and experience with voice communications systems (Cisco/Avaya, but particularly Avaya)
• Experience with many of the following Avaya platform and/or Application components:
  • Avaya Aura Core Platform Communication Manager version 8.x (minimum 7.x)
  • System Platform, Avaya Virtualization Platform, and Session Manager
  • Aura Messaging
  • VMWare ESXi version 6.x
  • Avaya Gateway G450 expertise

• Excellent verbal and written communication, interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Strong organizational, time management and documentation skills.
• Self-starter, with a desire to be in a fast paced large enterprise telecommunications environment.
• Accurate and prompt handling of Telecom administration work and solving of related issues
• Sound reasoning ability together with strong problem solving skills and the ability to know when to escalate issues before they become critical.

• Experience with the following:
  • SolarWinds
  • S-Series and COTS Server,MCC/G-Series gateways with ESS and LSP components)
  • Aura Call Center Elite (EAS) and Advocate ACD call-flow
  • Oracle/ACME Packet SBC's
  • CMS/BCMS/AES/System
  • Avaya Communications Automatic Route Selection (ARS) and Avaya Automatic Alternative Routing (AAR) in an enterprise environment

• CCNP Voice and/or Data - Cisco Certified Network Professional
• CCNA Voice - Cisco Certified Network Professional
• Avaya Professional Design Specialist (APDS)
• Avaya Certified Implementation Specialist (ACIS)
• Avaya Certified Support Specialist (ACSS)
• Avaya Certified Solutions Architect (ACSA)