Voice Network Engineer

Voice Network Engineer


Job Req ID: 40385


Posting Date: 23 Oct 2024


Function: Engineering


Unit: Business


Location: 54 Maxwell Drive, Johannesburg, South Africa


Salary: Competitive


Purpose Of Role:
The role holder is responsible for the deployment and support of BT Enterprise Trading Command and Control voice solutions including Session Border Controllers and Voice Recorders in the SIP Voice sector. He/she provides technical support, resolving escalated technical issues within their own work area. This covers all areas of Trading SIP Voice such as systems and applications software, database management, network services, data and systems security.
The role holder should leverage the experience of the relevant BT wide professional communities to discharge these responsibilities, thus ensuring knowledge sharing extends beyond the functional boundary of the role.
Key Responsibilities:

To provide BT Trader Voice (SIP VOICE) services advice and/or professional services to both internal and external clients.
To provide support on projects, carrying out elements of the research, analysis and/or delivery.
To provide operational support ensuring KPIs and SLA are achieved.
May lead on the delivery of specific components of a project.
To draft reports and discuss recommendations based on research with their manager.
Share expertise with peers.
Occasionally provides on the job training to other team members.
To support the development and implementation of unit policies and procedures.
May involve liaising with internal, external and third party suppliers.
To input to cost/timescales solutions/options and manage expectations as appropriate with customer or business unit/LoB teams.
To personally participate in and contribute to BT wide professional community activities where applicable e.g. knowledge sharing, best practice within BT and external industry.
To use the relevant BT wide professional community framework to raise their skills and those of their team to the recommended PC standards.

Business Impact:

Contribute up to date detailed technology know-how to projects.
Would generally act under supervision but may be required, Out Of Hours, to work in isolation and take professional decisions to restore critical BT business functionality.
Provides accurate completion and delivery of supervised work.

Authority/Decision Making:

Completes own role independently or with minimal supervision/guidance.
Uses discretion in identifying and resolving complex problems and assignments.
Specific instruction is usually given and work is reviewed at frequent milestones.
Determines when problems should be escalated to a higher level.
Ability to determine the delegation to team members that report to the role.
May have some budget responsibility.

Qualifications:

Typically engineering/science degree or has served a technical apprenticeship and obtained NVQ and further education technical qualifications (i.e. HND).
May have obtained some appropriate recognised current accreditation to an external professional body and/or industry standard.
Relevant professional experience.

Skills/Experience:

Demonstrates competence in own area and may still be acquiring higher level skill.
Typically works with moderate guidance in own area of knowledge.
Deepens knowledge/skills in one area or broadens ability over a variety of skills.
Applies knowledge/skills to a variety of standard day to day activities.
Identifies unusual technical problems.
Responds to client requests in non-standard situations, and investigates all the facts.
Understands the key business drivers; and uses this knowledge to focus own work.
Works to control costs related to own work.
Identifies the problem and all relevant issues in straightforward situations; is able to generate possible solutions and assess each using standard procedures, leading to a sound decision.
Prioritises and organises own work to deliver to agreed deadlines.
Probes and listens carefully.
Able to present information clearly and in an appropriate style to make technical information clear.
Persuades others in straightforward situations.
Able to contribute actively in team activities, sharing experience and ideas.
Builds productive relationships internally and externally.
Has a comprehensive understanding of professional communities relevant to the LOB and uses the PC development framework to maximise the potential of themselves, their team and the wider BT team.

Below list of exposure and knowledge will be an advantage:

BT Trading and Command systems experience (not a prerequisite).
CUCM Voice certification.
Cisco Voice networks certification or experience at competent level.
Audiocodes or Acme Oracle Session Border controller certification and experience.
Voice Recorder experience (SIPRec) (Nice or Verint).
Azure Cloud certification.
VMWare management.
Server management.
SQL.

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A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:
Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you're a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.
We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.
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