Translation Engineer

Seeking a Contract Translations Engineer – Converged Services Platform (CSP) Capital Projects to provide specialized translations engineering support exclusively for capital projects associated with the evolution of voice services from legacy Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) technologies to a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) environment.

The Converged Services Platform (CSP) encompasses the platforms, systems, and network equipment deployed to transition voice services and supporting network functions to a SIP-based environment. CSP solutions currently include equipment supplied by Ribbon and Stratus and may incorporate equipment from additional vendors as determined by the Network Evolution Planning Team.

CSP capital projects may include the migration of voice traffic, trunks, signaling, routing, and associated services from legacy switching and transport platforms to SIP-based infrastructure. Projects may also include migration of ancillary TDM facilities supporting voice services, such as SS7 A-Links, to packet-based transport utilizing circuit emulation or other appropriate technologies.

As a Contract Translations Engineer supporting CSP capital projects, you will be responsible for the analysis, design, development, implementation, testing, validation, and troubleshooting of network translations necessary to successfully execute these migrations.

Your work will help ensure that voice services and their supporting network functions are transitioned from legacy infrastructure to the CSP environment accurately, efficiently, and with minimal customer or network impact.

This position is dedicated to CSP capital-project execution and is not intended to provide routine business-as-usual (BAU) translations support or general ownership of switching offices.

As a Contract Translations Engineer – CSP Capital Projects, your duties will include but are not limited to:

• Reviewing CSP capital-project requirements, network designs, engineering documentation, circuit records, implementation plans, and other technical inputs to identify translations and network configuration requirements.

• Analyzing existing legacy TDM voice-network configurations and determining the translations changes necessary to migrate services, traffic, signaling, and associated network functions to the CSP environment.

• Designing translations solutions supporting the migration and coexistence of legacy TDM and SIP-based network environments.

• Developing and implementing translations associated with call routing, trunking, signaling, screening, numbering, traffic migration, network interconnection, and other functions required by assigned CSP capital projects.

• Supporting the migration of voice trunks and associated network traffic from legacy switching platforms to CSP infrastructure.

• Supporting translations and network configuration activities associated with migration of ancillary TDM services supporting the voice network, including SS7 A-Links transported through circuit emulation equipment where applicable.

• Coordinating translations requirements across legacy switching systems, CSP equipment, signaling infrastructure, transport facilities, and other affected network elements.

• Developing detailed implementation procedures, Methods of Procedure (MOPs), translations scripts, command sequences, test plans, validation procedures, and back-out plans for assigned projects.

• Performing detailed pre-implementation analysis and validation to identify routing conflicts, translations dependencies, signaling issues, capacity concerns, service impacts, or other conditions that could affect successful project implementation.

• Establishing and documenting baseline network conditions necessary to validate successful migration and facilitate troubleshooting or restoration if required.

• Implementing approved translations changes during scheduled CSP project maintenance windows in accordance with engineering, change-management, and network-operating practices.

• Exercising sound professional judgment when implementing translations changes to minimize the risk of customer-affecting service degradation, call-routing failures, signaling disruptions, or network outages.

• Performing post-migration testing and validation to verify successful call routing, trunk operation, signaling, screening, and other affected network functions.

• Analyzing signaling and call-processing information to identify and resolve translations-related problems encountered during migration, testing, or post-implementation validation.

• Troubleshooting interactions between legacy TDM switching systems and SIP-based CSP infrastructure during migration and coexistence periods.

• Executing or supporting approved back-out and restoration procedures when project implementation does not meet established acceptance criteria.

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