Packetizer

Spohn Consulting

Job Title: VoIP Network Consultant

Job Location: Austin

Job Summary:

Spohn Consulting provides a range of services for customers in the LAN/WAN environments. Our main product offerings are comprehensive network analysis focusing on maximizing packet throughput, network utilization, and Convergence.

The position of VoIP Network Consultant encompasses:

  • Consulting for outside customers
  • Network Analysis
  • VoIP Telephony Readiness Analysis
  • Telecom Strategy Development
  • Report and documentation generation
  • Independent work
  • Advising customers

Major Responsibilities:

  • Network Assessments - assess and advise clients on how to optimize their network; e.g., LAN/WAN;
  • identify and remove bottlenecks; improve bandwidth utilization; implement more efficient management and maintenance.
  • Telecom Strategy Development - determines appropriate voice and data architecture strategy considering current and anticipated needs as well as evolving technology such as VoIP, IPT, and MPLS. Attention to people-process-tools of physical and logical network along with operational elements.
  • IP Telephony Readiness Assessment - ensures cost-effective migration to a converged network solution while minimizing operational risk. Considers current investment, readiness to support VoIP traffic and performance; configuration; interoperability; etc
  • Configure and install networking devices including servers, switches, routers, Firewalls, IDS.
  • Perform other duties as required by company operations.

Regular Duties:

Primarily responsible for performing security services work for outside customers from the line of Spohn Network Consulting offerings.

  • Engage customers
  • Run tools
  • Conduct interviews
  • Gather data
  • Analyze results
  • Document results
  • Present results
  • Support further product development
  • Support collateral development
  • Support sales call

Projects:

Periodically perform various projects such as

  • Statement of work development
  • Product development
  • Automation of process used in completing security services

Job Requirements

  • Bachelors Degree Preferred No specific degree Associates degree with commensurate
  • experience would be considered
  • Must have a CCNA certification.
  • Able to formulate, understand and communicate abstract concepts
  • Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
  • Working knowledge of SNMP
  • Working knowledge of Voice Over IP
  • Working knowledge of TCP, UDP, DNS, ICMP
  • Working Knowledge of Solar Winds Network Analysis Tools (Preferred)
  • Experience with Vivinet VoIP assessor
  • Ability to develop processes to conduct and document assessments
  • Must work daily from the Austin office
  • Must be willing to travel (we have designed our product to require between 1/10th and 1/3rd Onsite work. The remainder of the work will be performed form our offices. This should translate to 10-30% travel. However, the candidate must be prepared to travel more if necessary.)

Desired Majors: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Desired Certifications: CCNA, CCNP,CCVP

Contact:

Charles Black
Office: +1-512-685-1810
Email: cblack@Spohncentral.com