Microsoft Lync Engineer

The Engineer is required to design, install and manage Microsoft Lync solutions at enterprise level alongside more general Microsoft Engineering duties.

Please note that this role is on a secure government site and so applicants must hold current, valid SC clearance to be considered.

Required skills:

- Unified Communication & Phone Engineer - Polycom, phones, PBX, SIP Trunk integration with Lync
- Possess strong knowledge of all aspects of Lync 2013 to include IM, Voice, Voicemail, Persistent Chat Rooms, Unified Messaging and Federation
- Possess strong technical skills in Lync Enterprise Voice capabilities and have perform integration would between Lync and commercial VOIP providers
- Possess strong technical skills with Session Border Controllers, preferably AudioCode and can implement: Dial plans, Normalization rules, SIP trunks, SIP Security Protections (Application-level gateways, DDOS, malicious SIP blocking)
- Experienced with mass deployments of physical Lync-Embedded endpoints, preferable PolyCom VVX-series handsets and can develop and deploy multiple profiles (user, hot-seat, and common-use phones)
- Experienced with optimizing Lync Voice and Video over the networks through the use of QoS
- Experience with Fax over IP solutions
- Experience with 802.1X authentication/certificate authentication of PolyCom handset devices
- Experience with Microsoft AD, SQL Server, SCOM (System Center Operations Manager), SCORCH (System Center Orchestrator), Exchange Server, Lync
- Knowledge of the Microsoft best practices and build methods with proven expertise and professional level work experience with the above mentioned Microsoft systems
- Proven experience supporting and troubleshooting Group Policy Objects (GPO).
- Proficient in Microsoft infrastructure security