Unified Communications Engineer

Job#: 3032505

Job Description:

Apex Systems is seeking two Senior Unified Communications Engineers to provide technical leadership in the design, implementation, and support of enterprise collaboration and communications services in a highly regulated financial services environment supporting one of our enterprise financial services clients. These resources can sit in or near Charlotte, NC, Wayne, PA or Plano, TX.

This is a senior-level role with expectations for strong ownership, sound engineering judgment, and the ability to influence platform direction and standards across teams. You'll partner with security, network, and end-user computing teams to drive consistent patterns for reliability and control, lead response on high-impact incidents, and conduct root-cause analysis when services degrade. You will be expected to proactively identify gaps, propose solutions, and guide stakeholders toward decisions that improve resiliency, user experience, and operational maturity.

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Job Responsibilities:

* Provide senior-level technical leadership for unified communications and collaboration services (voice, video, chat, meetings, conferencing) in a regulated enterprise environment

* Own platform architecture and standards, influencing design decisions across network, security, identity, and end-user computing teams

* Administer and troubleshoot major communications platforms such as Zoom, Webex, Google Workspace, and equivalent enterprise collaboration solutions (including client, room, and service-side components as applicable)

* Lead end-to-end implementation initiatives: requirements gathering, solution design, pilot planning, production rollout, and operational handoff

* Troubleshoot complex issues across networking, identity, endpoints, and cloud services to restore service quickly and prevent recurrence; lead root-cause investigations and corrective actions

* Partner with network and security teams to ensure designs align with standards (e.g., firewall/proxy rules, QoS, certificates/TLS, conditional access, logging/monitoring)

* Develop and maintain operational runbooks, support procedures, and platform governance (including change, incident, and problem management)

* Evaluate vendor capabilities and new features with consideration for security, compliance, availability, and user experience; make recommendations and drive adoption

* Monitor service health and usage trends; define and execute reliability, performance, and user-experience improvement plans

* Provide escalation support and mentorship to junior engineers; communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders during outages and change windows

Experience:

* 7+ years of experience in unified communications, collaboration engineering, or adjacent infrastructure/enterprise systems roles, including ownership of production platforms

* Hands-on experience administering and troubleshooting communications platforms such as Zoom, Webex, and related UC services (voice/video/meetings/messaging)

* Broad foundational knowledge of networking and security concepts to support successful implementations and effective incident response (e.g., DNS/DHCP, routing, firewalls/proxies, VPN, QoS, certificates/TLS, SSO/MFA/conditional access)

* Nice to have:
Experience supporting or integrating with Google Workspace (Gmail, Calendar, Meet, identity/integration points)

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