PURPOSE OF THE POSITION
VOSS has acquired access to several technological solutions in response to market demands and provides software services to global managed service providers, large enterprises, either directly or through partner and reseller channels. One of VOSS’s strategic objectives is to transition from customer-hosted, on-premises solutions to VOSS cloud-hosted solutions.
VOSS has the need to extend its service-orientated solution-level team, who engages directly with customers on solutions deployment projects and technical matters, ensuring our customers’ success throughout the lifecycle of their solution. Due to the increased customer base and higher demand, VOSS requires the services of a customer focused Customer Service / Deployment Engineer to join the Customer-centric Global Deployment team.
The focus will be on positive customer engagement with an overall objective of delivering an exceptional customer experience, whilst exposing new commercial opportunities (upsell / cross-sell) within the customer’s environment.
In addition to delivering solution deployment services and providing assistance and support to the VOSS customer base, this candidate will also be responsible for monitoring, investigating, and responding to environmental incidents (including stability, scalability and performance issues) within the customer environments.
DEPLOYMENT ENGINEER RESPONSIBILITIES
- The successful candidate will also contribute to the Professional Services team as a Solutions Deployment Engineer, supporting the full lifecycle of UC solution deployments. This includes:
- Project-Based Technical Responsibilities
- Participate in pre-sales technical discovery and requirements gathering with customers and partners.
- Lead or contribute to the architectural design of UC solutions, ensuring alignment with customer requirements and best practices.
- Develop high-level and low-level design documentation for UC deployments, including integration with existing infrastructure.
- Perform hands-on implementation of UC solutions, including:
- MS Teams Direct Routing and provisioning
- Cisco UCM dial plan design and user provisioning
- Cisco Webex configuration and integration
- Configure and deploy VOSS orchestration and management tools to support UC environments.
- Conduct system integration testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), and cutover support during go-live phases.
- Provide technical leadership during project delivery, ensuring milestones are met and risks are mitigated.
- Professional Services Collaboration
- Work closely with Project Managers, Solution Architects, and Customer Success to ensure successful project delivery.
- Support the transition of deployed solutions to the Customer Service Engineering team for ongoing support.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of deployment methodologies, templates, and best practices.
- Deliver technical workshops and training sessions to customers and internal stakeholders.
- Maintain accurate project documentation, including configuration guides, deployment records, and change logs.
- Technology Focus
- Deep understanding of Unified Communications platforms, including:
- Microsoft Teams (Direct Routing, Phone System, Teams Admin Center)
- Cisco Unified Communications Manager (UCM) (CUCM, Unity, Expressway)
- Cisco Webex (Control Hub, Meetings, Messaging)
- Experience with cloud-native technologies (Azure, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes) and API integrations.
- Familiarity with networking fundamentals and security best practices in UC deployments.
CUSTOMER SERVICE ENGINEER RESPONSIBILITIES
- Investigation, identification and resolution of technical issues assigned to you as defined in SLAs.
- Remain overall technical ownership and point of escalation for all incidents being reported by customers, ensuring a timeous expedition and resolution of customer problems and complaints.
- Strengthening relationships with customers, Service Managers, Account Managers and Global Deployment Services – providing insights into partner problem statements, possible solutions and commercial opportunities related to such problems.
- Establishing, developing and maintaining technical relationships with Partners within your region, with a focus on generating new business for the organization’s products/services.
- Undertaking technical calls and in-person visits.
- Building strong internal relationships in VOSS with the Product Management, Global Professional Services and Engineering teams to secure the ongoing internal support required to deliver the proposed solutions successfully.
- We provide 24×7 support to our customers around the world. The role requires you to have the ability to form part of the rotational standby roster and provide the necessary customer support when required.
- From time to time there may be a requirement to work outside of or in addition to the ordinary hours of work to meet the Company’s business and operational needs.
- Proactive engagement with the Engineering team and continuous communication with customers with regards to the status of all support cases and ETAs of reported issues and enhancement requests.
- Contributing towards a knowledge base and sharing learnings with the CSE Team.
- Early detection of high priority customer issues and escalating to senior management when necessary