Head of SIP

Connex One is a Software-as-a-service (SaaS) company specialising in the development of in-house omni-channel and AI-driven customer engagement platforms. With presence in UK, the USA, South Africa, Australia and Europe, Connex are rapidly expanding to other territories and continually bringing on new customers.I worked this position from March 2022 until January 2023.My place in the company:Working closely with a lot of individuals at Connex during my previous roles, the level of familiarity with people and the product has been extremely beneficial to allowing me to immediately pickup large projects and build a team of specialist engineers without too much friction.As Head of SIP at Connex, my projects here have included implementing platform-wide geo-redundant voice switching systems, and carrier management systems, allowing Connex to make even more use out of their already substantial carrier and voice service portfolio. I also head up a growing team of numbering and carrier interworking engineers, ensuring that voice and related traffic is balanced across our platform, and ensuring rigorous compliance with all relevant national telecommunications regulations, along with adherence to ISO27001, ISO9001, HIPAA,
MiFID , PCI DSS and
NICC
regulations.Further to my larger projects, I am consistently engaging with new carriers in the IP Voice, SMS and social-enabled services sectors, and where appropriate, performing interworking testing, and onboarding them into our ever-growing estate.My day-to-day responsibilities include leading my team of engineers and giving input into potential carrier interworking issues, building and setting up new international routing dialplan based on Least-Cost Routing in an ever changing market, implementing new voice edge-nodes to balance traffic across our estate, and engaging with customers on escalated issues that require specialist input. Pertinent Skills asterisk
bash
bgp
carrier relations
compliance
containerisation
cron
datacentre management
debian
disaster planning
disaster recovery
distributed infrastructure
dns
docker
firewalls
foss
git
github
hipaa
html5
hypervisors
interconnects
ipv4
ipv6
iso27001
iso9001
kamailio
leadership
linux
load balancers
mifid
mpls
mysql
network capacity planning
network infrastructure
network management
networking
noc operations
opensips
ospf
pbx
pci dss
php
php7
proxmox
rtp
server management
sips
source control
srtp
ssh
team building
team management
telecommunications
virtualisation
vlan
vmware
web application firewalls
Company Info Connex One connexone.co.uk
Manchester City Centre, UK
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