WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED
• Minimum 10 years managing server and support services, including at least 3 years in an IT outsourcing environment overseeing contractor personnel and 24x7 delivery.
• Demonstrated leadership of UC engineering teams supporting telephony, video conferencing, and collaboration platforms.
• ITIL 4 Foundation certification required; OEM UC platform certifications highly desirable.
• Must work onsite in Arlington, VA and live within commuting distance.
Required Technical Skills
• Deep understanding of UC architectures: SIP, VoIP, QoS, dial plans, call routing, gateways, media traversal.
• Experience with telephony and video platforms (Poly, Crestron, Cisco Webex, Avaya, Zoom, Logitech).
• Familiarity with Microsoft 365 (Teams, Exchange Online, Entra ID) and UC integrations.
• Experience integrating UC monitoring with ServiceNow CMDB and ITOM/ITSM workflows.
• Ability to direct UCMT operations, including discovery, polling, SNMP/MIB management, trap handling, and topology mapping.
• Knowledge of provisioning, MACDs, account lifecycle, and UC access controls.
• Strong vendor/OEM coordination experience.
Experience leading teams using UC management tools: OpsWare/Operations Orchestration, SCOM, Site24x7, SolarWinds Observability Self‑Hosted, ServiceNow ITOM. Hands‑on expertise in every tool not required.
Required Skills and Abilities
• Proven leadership in high‑pressure 24x7 environments.
• Excellent communication skills; experienced leading incident bridges and outage updates.
• Strong analytical skills for troubleshooting, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
• Deep knowledge of ITIL processes (Incident, Problem, Change, Event, Capacity) and enforcing SLAs.
• Ability to develop/validate SOPs, runbooks, KB articles, and support audits.
• Preferred: UC security controls, PKI/encryption, compliance, hybrid/cloud UC, automation/scripting.
U.S. Citizenship and a background investigation are required; you must have a current clean financial background. The role requires flexibility to support issues or planned activities after hours, weekends and holidays as needed. Successful candidate must possess and be able to demonstrate technical skills and engineering attitude for success, dedication and commitment.