Translations Engineer

Duration: 12 months, with Potential to extend Type: Contract Pay Rate: $31 per hour on W2

Work Hours: 40-hour work week. (8 am – 6 pm ET) – estimate (EST AND CST CANDIDATES or OPEN TO ASJUST TO EST TIME ZONE)Additional Notes:

Required Skills & Experience: Computer engineering degree with relevant experience; fundamentals of TDM trunking, IP-centric technology as wellMS Office, TIRKS, and Telnet are a hard must. TDM voice switch experience is non-negotiable.2/3 switching platform knowledge. Strong trunk and switching provisioning experience and knowledge are non-negotiable. Switches: 5ESS, DCO, DMS-10, DMS-100, C20, EWSD, GTD-5; SIP technology Self-motivated, requires minimal intervention, good communication skills Microsoft technology

Required Skills & Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Engineering, or equivalent telecom/military experience. Strong hands-on experience with voice translations engineering in carrier-class networks. Strong knowledge of TDM voice switching, call routing, trunking, signaling, screening, and numbering. Good understanding of SIP, SS7, ISUP/Q.764, Q.931, and voice-network architecture. Experience with SS7 signaling, including A-Links, STPs, signaling routing, and translations. Experience supporting network migrations, switch consolidations, modernization, network rearrangements, and telecom capital projects. Ability to analyze existing network configurations and develop accurate translations/network changes. Experience creating and executing MOPs, implementation procedures, test plans, validation plans, and back-out plans. Strong troubleshooting skills across call routing, signaling, trunking, and translations. Experience working within formal change-management processes and maintenance windows. Comfortable with PuTTY, SecureCRT, MS Word, and Excel. Ability to coordinate with engineering, operations, transport, signaling, project management, and vendors. Ability to manage multiple projects and meet implementation deadlines.

Desired Skills: Experience with Ribbon, SBCs, media gateways, Stratus, or similar carrier-class voice platforms. Experience with circuit emulation and transporting legacy TDM services over packet networks. TDM-to-SIP voice migration experience. Carrier-class trunk groups, routing plans, numbering plans, signaling configurations, and interoffice networks. Voice-network modernization, switch decommissioning/consolidation, or legacy-platform retirement. Background as a Translations Engineer, Central Office Technician, Voice NOC Engineer, or similar. Scripting/data-processing experience with Python, Perl, VBScript, or similar. Experience with pre/post-change validation and troubleshooting customer-impacting voice issues.

What You Will Be Doing: Analyze legacy TDM voice configurations and determine translations required for migration to SIP/CSP infrastructure. Design and implement translations for call routing, trunking, signaling, screening, numbering, and traffic migration. Support migration of voice trunks, signaling, and ancillary TDM services. Develop MOPs, scripts, command sequences, test plans, validation procedures, and back-out plans. Perform pre-change analysis to identify routing conflicts, signaling issues, dependencies, capacity concerns, and potential service impacts. Implement approved network changes during scheduled maintenance windows. Perform post-migration testing and validation of call routing, trunks, signaling, and network functions. Troubleshoot TDM/SIP interoperability, translations, signaling, and call-processing issues. Coordinate with network engineering, operations, transport, signaling teams, project managers, and vendors, including Ribbon and Stratus. Maintain detailed project documentation, network configurations, test results, and implementation records. Identify and communicate technical risks, dependencies, and implementation concerns. Manage translations deliverables across multiple concurrent telecom projects. Serve as a subject-matter expert for legacy voice translations and SIP/CSP migration.