Contact Center Systems Engineer
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Contact Center Systems Engineer to support a large-scale, global enterprise contact center environment.
This role combines production support and platform engineering , including contact center routing, telephony troubleshooting, Linux-based systems, integrations, and migration from an existing commercial platform to a next-generation platform built on open-source telephony technologies.
Key Responsibilities
- Configure and maintain routing strategies, queues, IVR flows, and agent targeting across voice, chat, email, and task channels
- Troubleshoot production issues across telephony, network, and application layers
- Diagnose voice quality issues including latency, jitter, packet loss, codecs, and media-path problems
- Troubleshoot SIP/VoIP call flows and routing logic
- Support number provisioning, porting, and regional routing
- Analyze existing contact center configurations and map them to a new platform architecture
- Build and validate configurations in Linux environments
- Support platform migration and feature-parity testing
- Integrate systems using REST APIs and webhooks
- Participate in production incident triage and resolution
- Create technical documentation, runbooks, and structured shift handovers
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with enterprise Contact Center platforms
- Experience with Genesys, NICE, Five9, Avaya, Cisco , or similar platforms
- Strong knowledge of SIP, RTP, and VoIP
- Experience troubleshooting call flows, routing logic, and media-path issues
- Networking knowledge including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, firewalls, and QoS
- Strong Linux skills including service configuration, log analysis, and command-line troubleshooting
- Scripting/programming experience with Python, JavaScript, or Bash
- Experience with REST APIs, webhooks, Git, and deployment workflows
- Experience supporting and troubleshooting production systems
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with FreeSWITCH, Kamailio, OpenSIPS, Asterisk , or similar open-source telephony technologies
- Contact center platform migration experience
- Experience with Wireshark, sngrep, sipgrep, or HOMER
- Terraform or Ansible
- Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, or Datadog
- SQL fundamentals
- Cyara or other automated voice-testing platforms
- Exposure to AI-enabled contact center capabilities such as virtual agents, intent-based routing, or speech analytics
- ITIL / ITSM familiarity
Education
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Telecommunications, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Originally posted on Himalayas
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