Sr. Spec. DDIT IES Voice Engg

Novartis

  • Hyderabad, Telangana
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 2 months ago
Job Description Summary • As a Senior Specialist Engineer will operate and support Novartis IP Telephony & MS Teams Telephony globally.
  • Will drive standard global solutions in telephony, telecommunications & Contact Centre including all corporate telephony services while continuously improving service quality.
Job DescriptionMajor accountabilities:
  • Supervises service provider operation of a MS Teams telephony, Global AudioCodes Session border controller infrastructure & Cisco Unified Communications Manager clusters supporting several countries globally
  • Understands MS Teams & IP Telephony, telecom, and Cisco IPT services including their components and processes, and serves as an expert of processes that enable or support the service.
  • Ensures that the current and future service level requirements and procedures are identified, understood and documented appropriately (in SLA and service documents).
  • Ensures effective monitoring, performance and continuous improvement of the service. Reviews and assesses service gaps and addresses gaps/risks where identified.
  • Shared responsibility across MS Teams telephony & Cisco IPT service management for service records and documents (SOPs, Work Instructions, Service Operations Manual, etc). Liaises with the appropriate process owners throughout the service management lifecycle.
  • Reviews, assesses and approves or rejects Changes to evaluate their impact on service quality. Ensures evaluation of changes relating to configuration items within the scope of the service.
  • Good understanding of Water fall & SDLC model including HLCCD for Documentation.
  • Ensures that the relevant people and teams from underpinning IT Services are engaged in the delivery and support of the service.
  • Ensures that service level reports are produced for the service and that breaches of service level targets are highlighted, investigated and acted upon.
  • Accepts complaints and escalates (where necessary) to reach resolution.
  • Identifies opportunities for continues improvement for the service, delivers improvement plan and manages/coordinates them.
  • Reviews and acts based on KPI reporting.
Key performance indicators:
  • Trained according to SOPs
  • Continuous uptime of business telephony services
  • Service request time to resolution
  • Capacity management in line with forecasted demand.
  • Incidents and resolution rate based on mean time to resolve by incident type
  • KPIs on key ITSM processes maintained within desired levels.
  • Demand management is supported within agreed SLAs for IP Telephony.
Minimum Requirements:
Work Experience:
  • At least 8 years of working experience in MS Teams and Cisco call manager IP Telephony, network operations, or telecom
  • Working experience with a range of network and UCC Tools, platforms, business Intelligence solutions, best practices for Service Management such as ITIL v3
  • Working experience with implementation of new processes or methodologies in complex organizations
Skills:SKILLS/JOB RELATED KNOWLEDGE
  • Microsoft Teams telephony and associated endpoints
  • Audiocodes infrastructure for IP telephony
  • Cisco Unified Communications Manager and full stack Cisco network infrastructure and telecom carrier products
  • PSTN/telecom carrier services
  • Demonstrated ability to manage geographically or functionally dispersed teams
  • Understands the ITSM Tool stack, such as the required or underpinning IT Services and their service components.
  • Excellent negotiating skills.
  • Good understanding of business processes and objectives.
  • Good understanding of Water fall & SDLC model including HLCCD for Documentation.
  • Risk Management.
  • Vendor Management.
Languages :
  • English.
Skills Desired Communication, Group Problem Solving, Incident Management, Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, IT Governance, IT Service Management (ITSM), Network Monitoring, Performance Management (PM), Risk Management, Strategic Planning, Vendor Management

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