
Telephony Engineer
- East Midlands
- Permanent
- Full-time
- To provide BAU operational support across a wide range of customer telephony infrastructure, including health checks and reporting.
- Managing Incidents, Problems, Requests and Changes in line with ITIL best practice and ensuring that SLAs are maintained.
- Delivery of project-related tasks such as the installation of new telephone equipment.
- Creation of telephone diagrams and documentation.
- Actively manage, configure, upgrade and support the complex telephony environment including OpenScape 4000, MS Teams (voice), Netcall, Session Border Controllers, VoIP and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) platforms.
- Proactive management of customer environments, identifying potential improvements to deliver increased stability, availability and performance.
- Ensure that customer environments adhere to established standards and frameworks, meeting any compliance requirements at all times.
- Developing strong relationships with other engineers within the client to provide and share technical issue resolution and knowledge.
- You will be comfortable with hands on physical work within the wider organisation and have excellent customer skills.
- Have experience of working in a constant high pressure and in a very technically demanding and changing environment.
- Be capable of managing your work time, be able to resolve IT queries following logical analysis, work as part of a team, have a ‘can-do’ attitude and complete calls / tasks by agreed deadlines.
- Travel between sites will be required
- You may be required to participate in a 24/7 On call rota
- This role is based on-site 5 days per week
- Ability to troubleshoot technical, multi-site and multi-discipline incidents and problems.
- Able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
- Proven experience on the Openscape 4000 Telephone System (E)
- Understanding of analogue telephone wiring and concepts (E)
- Proven experience of supporting alternative VoiP Solutions (E)
- Proactively liaising with users in non-technical manner (E)
- Experience working with Contact Centre Technologies (D)
- Comprehensive understanding of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) platforms (D)
- Understanding of MS Teams (Voice) (D)
- Previous experience with working on Telephone Voicemail Services (D)
- Managing difficult users (E)
- ITIL v4 Foundation (D)
- Basic knowledge and understanding of Networking principles (D)
- Demonstrate practical knowledge and problem-solving strategies
- Contribute to the continual improvement plan of the department
- Focus on professionalism, be ‘the best’.
- Focus on communication.
- Be an efficient, flexible, reliable and continuously improving local technical resource in support of Business Units use exploitation and development of IT.