What You’ll Do
- Drive technology design, implementation, execution, and/or optimization for projects/accounts to accelerate customer outcomes.
- Assist customers with integration and implementation of tools, systems, and service assurance for Cisco technologies.
- Support presale activities and translate business requirements into solution design.
- Build customer simulations in test labs to resolve/validate sophisticated issues.
- Build and deliver customer collateral, documentation, and knowledge transfer.
- Drive customer technology transitions, influencing solution architectures and services.
- Align with and support company policies and processes and utilize relevant tools to efficiently execute the role and support Professional Services’ strategies and goals.
- Play the role of an individual contributor.
Decision Making / Impact
- Decisions impact the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of own team and other teams whose work activities are closely related, including multi-functional teams.
- Ability to understand and communicate project scope and map it to customer business goals and objectives.
Role and specific responsibilities
- Associate with customers along with appropriate internal and external resources' deployment/optimization of Cisco services and solutions.
- Takes ownership of task/project implementation for assigned engagements.
- Implement new techniques and methodologies utilized in customer delivery and share lessons learned with the broader team.
- Builds and reviews project work e.g. Design recommendations, High-Level Design, Low-Level Design, Implementation/ Change Management Plans.
- Builds and/or use test environments as the need arises to resolve sophisticated problems & compatibility issues.
- Demonstrates software skills and tools to configure, deploy Cisco products and solutions.
- Gives in the development of digital intellectual capital (e.g. scripts, digital signatures).
- Acts as a focal point for problem resolution for assigned customer engagements. Assures accurate and quick resolution of major customer problems across an appropriate range of technologies.
Expertise
- Experience in planning, designing, implementing and solving problems complex Cisco UC solutions for enterprise level customers.
- 3+ years of experience in designing, installing, configuring, and solving the Cisco UC applications such as CUCM, Unity Connection, CUCME, SRST, UCCX, CER, IM&P.
- Experience on Digital/Analog voice gateways, media resources such as conferencing, transcoding, MTP, and MoH and voice endpoints such as IP phones, and CIPC (softphones).
- Experience with planning and executing moderate-scale UC upgrade and migration activities.
- Experience in fixing Cisco Telepresence, Cisco Meeting Server video conferencing, Cisco Expressway, MRA and B2B calls for customers
- Experience with Cisco Cloud Meetings and Messaging solution – Cisco Webex Centers, Cisco Webex Cloud Connected Audio, Cisco Webex Meetings Server, Cisco Collaboration Meeting Rooms
- Good understanding of telephony dial plan design, implementation, and call control/routing protocols such as H.323, MGCP, SIP, SCCP, Q.SIG, CAS, ISDN PRI, FXO, FXS, and POTS.
- Good in TCP/IP concepts and protocols like DHCP, DNS, TFTP, NTP, and LDAP.
- Experience with UCS B/C series platforms and VMware technologies such as vCenter, vSphere EXSi, and vSphere client.
- Knowledge of Collaboration QoS desired.
- Professional level (e.g. CCNP) or equivalent relevant certification desired.
- Good in software programmability, automation, orchestration and/or virtualization.
Leadership / Autonomy
- Receives limited supervision. Receives little instruction on routine work and new assignments. Provides guidance and mentoring to other engineers. Translates team goals into work assignments.
- Being a trusted advisor & mentor. Emphasis is on the facilitation of processes, solutions.
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