Cisco Voice Infrastructure Engineer
Other Engineering
Remote
Job Title: Cisco Voice Infrastructure Engineer
Duration: 12+ months (Contract)
Location: Remote
About the job:
As a Cisco Voice Infrastructure Engineer, you will design, implement, maintain, and optimize the underlying enterprise voice infrastructure supporting a large-scale contact-center environment. You will play a critical role in ensuring reliable, secure, and highly available voice connectivity across customers, carriers, Cisco Unified Communications infrastructure, and contact-center applications. Your work will directly impact core success measures, including voice platform availability, call completion rates, voice-quality scores, and overall telecom cost optimization.
Responsibilities:
- Design, support, and document enterprise Cisco voice architecture, ensuring resilient SIP and PSTN connectivity.
- Configure and maintain CUCM, CUBE, SIP trunks, voice gateways, SBCs, dial plans, route patterns, calling search spaces, device pools, media resources, and codec/region configurations.
- Integrate telecom carriers with contact-center platforms, managing carrier migrations, number-porting activities, and inbound/outbound toll-free and DID services.
- Troubleshoot complex voice issues, including one-way/no-way audio, SIP signaling failures, jitter, latency, packet loss, codec mismatches, DTMF issues, and call setup failures.
- Analyze SIP traces and call flows to identify and resolve root causes of production incidents.
- Support CVP and ICM voice integrations while implementing redundancy, failover, and disaster-recovery configurations.
- Collaborate closely with network engineering teams to define and manage QoS, WAN, and firewall requirements.
- Maintain voice-monitoring and observability capabilities, and support contact-center capacity planning and concurrent-call forecasting.
Minimum qualifications:
- Experience configuring and maintaining Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM), Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE), and voice gateways.
- Deep technical understanding of SIP, RTP, PSTN, and Dial plans.
- Strong knowledge of network protocols and concepts, including QoS, DNS, TCP/IP, and TLS/SRTP.
- Experience with network troubleshooting and packet-analysis tools, such as Wireshark or equivalent.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with Cisco UCCE, Cisco CVP, Cisco Finesse, and Webex.
- Familiarity with Session Border Controller (SBC) technologies and cloud telephony.
- Experience with contact-center migrations and designing multi-region, high-availability architectures.
- Proficiency in automating repetitive configuration and operational activities using Python or REST APIs.
Medical, dental, and vision insurance are available to qualified candidates who meet eligibility requirements.