Job Title: Contract Translations Engineer
Location: Charlotte North Carolina 28277 (100% Remote)
Duration: 12 months, with Potential to extend
Type: Contract
Pay Rate: $31 per hour on W2
Work Hours: 40-hour work week. (8 am – 6 pm ET) – estimate (EST AND CST CANDIDATES or OPEN TO ASJUST TO EST TIME ZONE)
Additional Notes:
Required Skills & Experience
Computer engineering degree with relevant experience; fundamentals of TDM trunking, IP-centric technology as well
MS Office, TIRKS, and Telnet are a hard must.
TDM voice switch experience is non-negotiable.
2/3 switching platform knowledge.
Strong trunk and switching provisioning experience and knowledge are non-negotiable.
Switches: 5ESS, DCO, DMS-10, DMS-100, C20, EWSD, GTD-5; SIP technology
Self-motivated, requires minimal intervention, good communication skills
Microsoft technology
Required Skills & Experience
Bachelor’s degree in
Computer Science, Telecommunications, Engineering
, or equivalent telecom/military experience.
Strong hands-on experience with
voice translations engineering
in carrier-class networks.
Strong knowledge of
TDM voice switching, call routing, trunking, signaling, screening, and numbering
.
Good understanding of
SIP, SS7, ISUP/Q.764, Q.931
, and voice-network architecture.
Experience with
SS7 signaling
, including A-Links, STPs, signaling routing, and translations.
Experience supporting
network migrations, switch consolidations, modernization, network rearrangements, and telecom capital projects
.
Ability to analyze existing network configurations and develop accurate
translations/network changes
.
Experience creating and executing
MOPs, implementation procedures, test plans, validation plans, and back-out plans
.
Strong troubleshooting skills across
call routing, signaling, trunking, and translations
.
Experience working within
formal change-management processes and maintenance windows
.
Comfortable with
PuTTY, SecureCRT, MS Word, and Excel
.
Ability to coordinate with
engineering, operations, transport, signaling, project management, and vendors
.
Ability to manage multiple projects and meet implementation deadlines.
Desired Skills
Experience with
Ribbon, SBCs, media gateways, Stratus
, or similar carrier-class voice platforms.
Experience with
circuit emulation
and transporting legacy TDM services over packet networks.
TDM-to-SIP voice migration experience.
Carrier-class
trunk groups, routing plans, numbering plans, signaling configurations, and interoffice networks
.
Voice-network modernization,
switch decommissioning/consolidation
, or legacy-platform retirement.
Background as a
Translations Engineer, Central Office Technician, Voice NOC Engineer
, or similar.
Scripting/data-processing experience with
Python, Perl, VBScript
, or similar.
Experience with
pre/post-change validation and troubleshooting customer-impacting voice issues
.
What You Will Be Doing
Analyze legacy
TDM voice configurations
and determine translations required for migration to
SIP/CSP infrastructure
.
Design and implement translations for
call routing, trunking, signaling, screening, numbering, and traffic migration
.
Support migration of
voice trunks, signaling, and ancillary TDM services
.
Develop
MOPs, scripts, command sequences, test plans, validation procedures, and back-out plans
.
Perform pre-change analysis to identify
routing conflicts, signaling issues, dependencies, capacity concerns, and potential service impacts
.
Implement approved network changes during scheduled maintenance windows.
Perform
post-migration testing and validation
of call routing, trunks, signaling, and network functions.
Troubleshoot
TDM/SIP interoperability, translations, signaling, and call-processing issues
.
Coordinate with
network engineering, operations, transport, signaling teams, project managers, and vendors
, including Ribbon and Stratus.
Maintain detailed project documentation, network configurations, test results, and implementation records.
Identify and communicate
technical risks, dependencies, and implementation concerns
.
Manage translations deliverables across
multiple concurrent telecom projects
.
Serve as a
subject-matter expert for legacy voice translations and SIP/CSP migration
.