Purpose:
To provide support and project services to Trade Floor for unified communications based on IPC, Avaya and Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) Systems.
The role will primarily revolve around the provision of telephone support of systems and associated third party applications such as voicemail, unified messaging, contact centre, voice recording etc.
The successful candidate will need good IT and networking knowledge to support the role. You will be expected to maintain awareness of the technology trends in this arena, together with a good working knowledge of existing and new products and applications.
A strong sense of urgency is required , together with the ability to quickly determine the scale and scope of an issue.
Ability to engage the right resource to assist in problem determination and resolve is also critical. Prepared to work weekends.
Responsibilities:
• Provide office based support activities to customers.
• Perform Daily Checks to report on infrastructure integrity.
•Manage day-to-day incidents and voice problems globally.
• Proactive infrastructure monitoring, to identify recurring and potential client-impacting issues in the environment.
• Undertake configuration management work in accordance with the Change Management procedures.
• Troubleshoot IP Telephony related faults and restore service within defined SLAs.
• Provide as requested by other groups, perform root cause analysis determining the cause of a problem and recommending and implementing solutions, ensure that all problems are resolved either in a timely manner or ensure that they are escalated to the appropriate management structure
• Work on issues escalated from Tier-1 engineers.
• Build solid working relationship with key customers and act as a key engineer.
• Document and share processes and procedures with the team.
• Highlight potential problems and take a pro-active approach.
• Manage communication and call logging with third parties and IPC/Cisco TAC.
• Take full ownership of all issues.
• Form part of 24x7 on call rota.
• Maintain regular communication with the customer and management on progress/status of owned problem.
• Maintain accurate records of customer communication and progress in the call logging system.
• Occasionally attend customer sites to perform troubleshooting of Cisco IP Telephony systems and associated applications when remote support is not suitable or has been exhausted.
• Attain and maintain appropriate manufacturer accreditations/certifications as agreed with management.
• Provide support to other engineers.
Skills Required:
- IPC Unigy V2 - V4
- Cisco Call Manager 7.x - 11.x
- Cisco Unity Connection
- Cisco CME, CUE
- Avaya CMS
- Call Recording concepts, NICE (NTR, NIM, Perform, 8.9), Cybertech, Verint
- Internal & on-net Private Wires. (CAS, MRD, ARD, media bridges.)
- Gateways H323, MGCP, SIP (RTp, SCCP,RVP,RTCD,QSig)
- Voice and Video network transport.
- Basic networking knowledge Layer 2 and Layer 3 technologies
- Strong understanding of general IP telephony concepts
- Knowledge of DB applications (in particular MSSQL and MySQL scripting and manipulation)
- Proven experience of database administration, maintenance, upgrades and migration.
Non-Essential Skills:
- Cisco Wireless LAN controllers and concepts
- Network Management - Orion Solarwinds / NetfFlow / Splunk
General Requirements:
- Cisco career certifications CCNA to CCIE Voice (Written).
- Customer facing with ability to understand technical issues and communicate clearly, effectively and professionally with customers and partners.
- TradeFloor and Financial Market Experience.
- Hardworking, flexible and enthusiastic, team player with a genuine interest in unified communication technologies and the benefits this technology brings.
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