Overview
The Chief Engineer/Solutions Lead will design and deliver secure Unified Communications solutions across classified and isolated networks. This role involves leading the architecture, integration, and implementation of voice, video, and messaging services while ensuring compliance with stringent security and performance standards. The contractor will collaborate with engineering teams, security specialists, and stakeholders to translate requirements into effective solutions in a complex environment.
Responsibilities
- Design secure cross-domain communications solutions, incorporating guards and multi-level security gateways.
- Define high-level and low-level designs for integrated voice, video, and messaging services.
- Integrate multi-vendor UC platforms using SIP, H.323, video teleconferencing, instant messaging, and presence.
- Design call routing and interoperability between disparate communications platforms and network security domains.
- Ensure solutions meet information assurance requirements and applicable security standards.
- Build resilience, fault tolerance, and low latency into the architecture.
- Lead engineering teams through implementation, integration, testing, and deployment.
- Investigate complex interoperability issues and provide technical direction to resolve them.
Requirements
- Strong experience designing and delivering enterprise Unified Communications solutions within secure environments.
- Thorough understanding of SIP, H.323, VoIP, VTC, messaging, and presence services.
- Experience integrating complex, multi-vendor communications platforms.
- Experience with cross-domain solutions, security guards, or multi-level security gateways.
- Understanding of controls required to connect separate classified or isolated networks.
- Experience producing high-level and low-level technical designs.
- Knowledge of information assurance and secure network architecture.
- Track record of leading engineers and taking technical ownership of solution delivery.