Durham, North Carolina
Posted: 28-Feb-25
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Categories:
Internal Number: 16143
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Business Unit: Rush Medical Center
Hospital: Rush University Medical Center
Department: IT Infrastructure
Work Type: Full Time (Total FTE between 0.9 and 1.0)
Shift: Shift 1
Work Schedule: 8 Hr (7:00:00 AM - 3:00:00 PM)
Rush offers exceptional rewards and benefits learn more at our Rush benefits page (https://www.rush.edu/rush-careers/employee-benefits).
Pay Range: $41.88 - $70.36 per hour
Rush salaries are determined by many factors including, but not limited to, education, job-related experience and skills, as well as internal equity and industry specific market data. The pay range for each role reflects Rush’s anticipated wage or salary reasonably expected to be offered for the position. Offers may vary depending on the circumstances of each case.
Summary:
The Senior Unified Communications (UC) Engineer will collaborate with all aspects of maintaining, configuring, and sustaining the Cisco VoIP environment including design, implementation, maintenance of existing UC environment, upgrading/configuration, and installation of hardware/software. In addition, the Senior UC Engineer helps evaluate, design, configure, document, and implement communication system architecture including phone networks & services, circuits, VOIP, cloud services, and connectivity to support business needs. The Senior UC Engineer is responsible for assisting with the development of roadmaps and leads implementation projects.
The Senior UC Engineer is required to participate in a 24x7x365 on-call rotation, including periodic off business-hours work. The Senior UC Engineer holds the team and organization-level responsibilities and leads large-scale projects. The Senior UC Engineer assists and mentors less experienced colleagues and is a resource for UW Health employees and leaders for Unified Communications.
Other information:
Required Job Qualifications:
Education Minimum:
Associate Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field (2 years combination of relevant experience and education may be considered in lieu of degree)
Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field strongly preferred.
Work Experience:
Minimum:
•5 years demonstrated success designing, configuring, and supporting Cisco Unified Communications infrastructure.
•5 years demonstrated success troubleshooting to isolate and diagnose problems in large- scale voice implementations.
•5 years demonstrated success translating business needs into operational requirements.
•5 years demonstrated success managing multiple projects simultaneously.
•5 years demonstrated success as mentoring and teaching others on Unified Communications technologies.
Preferred:
•3 years relevant experience in a Healthcare setting
•3 years relevant experience in IT, Business Operations, Project Management, Analytics or Monitoring
•3 years relevant experience supporting Cisco or similar UCaaS solutions.
•3 years relevant experience supporting Cisco CCE; creating and modifying scripts.
•3 years relevant experience supporting Calabrio suite of products.
•3 years relevant experience supporting Genesys CX cloud or similar CCaaS solutions.
Licenses & Certifications
Preferred:
CCNP Collaboration Certification
CCNA Certification
Required Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities -
Information Services (IS) Core Competencies:
Intermediate competency in the following areas:
•Leadership including leads with integrity, maintains strategic orientation, demonstrates business & financial acumen, champions innovation, manages execution, leads & develops people.
•Technical leadership of applicable products or platforms
•Leading highly empowered, self-directed teams including cross-functional teams
•Communication
•Effective team member
•Critical thinking
•Applying agile methodologies
•Mentoring and teaching
Position Specific Competencies -
Advanced competencies such as:
•Call centers and ACD call flow required.
•Cisco Dial Plan design and troubleshooting.
•Cisco Voice Gateways, CUBE and Protocols (SIP, H.323).
•VMWare ESX is preferred Cisco TAC support (raising cases, escalating).
•Cisco CODECs, Cisco Expressways, Cisco Meeting Server, Cisco Telepresence Management Suite
•Network infrastructure components and concepts.
•Microsoft Windows and Linux server management and networking.
•Ability to manage multiple concurrent activities.
Other Skills, Knowledge, Abilities:
Delivering UC Solutions
•Knowledge of PBX, key systems, Centrex, etc.
Physical Demands:
Light: Ability to lift up to 20 pounds maximum with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 10 pounds. Even though the weight lifted may only be a negligible amount, a job is in this category when it requires walking or standing to a significant degree.
Frequent (34%-66% of the time)
Up to 10# or requires significant walking or standing or requires pushing/pulling of arm/leg controls.
Constant (67%-100% of the time)
Negligible or constant push/pull of items of negligible weight.
Note: The purpose of this document is to describe the general nature and level of work performed by personnel so classified; it is not intended to serve as an inclusive list of all responsibilities associated with this position.
Responsibilities:
Deliver UC/UCCE Solutions
•Ensure successful delivery to support strategic planning and initiatives, improve organizational performance, and advance progress towards RUSH goals.
•Work with vendors, clients, carriers and technical staff on implementation, optimization, and security of Cisco Unified Communications system. This includes but is not limited to troubleshooting infrastructure and services including CUCM, CUC, CCE, CUBE, Jabber, WebEx, Finesse, voice gateways, and all other Unified Communications applications.
•Carry out maintenance/upgrades on all UC/UCCE infrastructure and end points.
•Proficiencies in local area network/wide area network (LAN/WAN) operations are required to ensure optimum configuration and operation of all integrated systems.
•Strong knowledge of voice/VoIP protocols; SIP, ISDN PRI, TI, FXS, FXO and Fax
•Use knowledge of healthcare industry, market environment, and clinical and business workflows and activities, to inform solution design and development to execute high-quality solutions to clear problems in an established problem space.
•Independently (with minimal oversight) develop and maintain trusted advisor relationships with business, clinical, and operations leaders that include guidance for optimizing use of UC and UCCE tools.
•Build solutions and implementation plans utilizing the appropriate internal and external resources and ensuring full involvement of business partners and communication to all stakeholders.
•Perform security review of UC Infrastructure and Applications.
Improve Processes and Standards
•Research, analyze, recommend, and implement new software, hardware, tools, systems, and processes to provide state-of-the-art collaboration experience.
•Lead the development and delivery of training relevant to area of expertise.
•Monitor the latest market trend and industrial landscape to discover opportunities to improve customer experience and reduce operating costs.
•Build and maintain project/technology related documentation, ensuring that accurate information is always available to other colleagues and management.
•Manage UC system logging and provide performance metrics.
Effective Team Member
•Provide detailed runbook procedure and support documentation for routine maintenance on the Unified Communications systems.
•Consistently demonstrate a very high level of teamwork, partnership, and collaboration.
•Training/Mentoring UC and other IT staff
Leadership
•Hold team-level responsibilities and may lead the team for small & medium scale projects.
•Provide presentation to client, upper management, and peers as it pertains to Unified Communications technology roadmap, architecture, engineering, and provisioning.
•Assist with budget preparation.
Technical Leadership
•Develop technical standards, define operational processes, and configuration best practices for UC infrastructure.
•Provide incident management and support to the critical issues escalated by UC Operations team.
•Lead the technical delivery of projects, including design, configuration, and testing of technical solutions for enterprise (UC) voice communications.
Rush is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.