Lead Telephony Engineer
Afiniti
- Pakistan
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provision, configure and maintain telephony environments mainly Avaya based AACC platform
- Deploy and monitor the solution
- Good understanding of SIP based protocols and debugging the same
- Working knowledge of SBC
- Good understanding of telephony protocols and procedures
- Security and Compliance:
- Understanding of security best practices related to access controls, encryption, and identity management
- Ensure compliance with industry regulations and internal security policies related to contact center industry
- Monitoring and Alerting:
- Proactively monitor solutions and detect and respond to performance and security issues
- Configure and monitor alerting systems, like Grafana and Prometheus, to notify relevant teams of incidents
- Backup and Recovery:
- Establish and test backup and disaster recovery procedures for telephony resources
- Ensure data integrity and availability in case of failures
- Documentation:
- Maintain clear and up-to-date documentation of architecture, processes, and procedures
- Share knowledge with team members and contribute to internal knowledge base
- Collaboration:
- Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to align strategies with business goals
- Participate in on-call rotation for incident response
- Automation:
- Develop and maintain automation scripts as needed. Knowledge of Terraform and or Ansible will be good to have
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- 8+ years' experience with any of the VOIP based solutions like Avaya; Genesys; Cisco; Five9; Asterisk etc.
- Experience with SIP flows and signaling
- Quickly learn new technologies and take lead and responsibility for solutions deployments
- Maintain telephony knowledge base
- Experience with Linux OS
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
- Scripting and automation (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Terraform) is good to have
- Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD concepts is good to have
- Understanding of telephony security principles and best practices is good to have
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus