Telecom Network Engineer

What You’ll Be Doing

Responsible for effective design, administration, configuration, installation, provisioning, monitoring and troubleshooting to ensure availability, capacity and performance of Contact Center systems, is achieved. Perform assigned duties as listed in RACI model(s) and under general direction from manager. Collaborate with peers, architects, project managers, managers and business stakeholders on design, strategy and project activities.

• Support SchoolsFirst’s complex telecommunications infrastructure, with a focus on one or more key functional areas : Routing and Switching, Voice & Collaboration and Contact Center
• Design, install and configure systems for the telecommunications infrastructure, using best practice principles
• Design and implement highly available solutions, in order to minimize repair and recovery efforts from hardware or software failures
• Perform tasks to ensure system availability and reliability, including daily monitoring, ongoing performance tuning and optimization, and OS and application patching
• Document Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for current system administration, while developing innovative and automated approaches for those processes which can be improved
• Troubleshoot, resolve and provide root cause analysis of complex system and user issues, independently or through coordination with 3rd party vendor support
• Collaborate with team members, service stakeholders and vendors to fulfill service and enhancement requests
• Manage vendor relationships by defining objectives, maintaining regular communication and establishing KPI’s to assess vendor performance
• Support ongoing improvements, including periodic failover and testing efforts, of disaster recovery and business continuity solutions
• Forecast, recommend, and implement capacity planning
• Provide after-hours maintenance and support as needed
• Provide world-class end-user service and technical support
• Obtain relevant certifications based on the Certification Path identified by management
• Consistently strive to make improvements to our processes and technology
• Participate in regularly scheduled huddles and meetings; report on individual metrics, analyze deviations, and discuss areas of improvement with the team as a whole
• On call rotation supporting the production environment 24x7x365.

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