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Senior Contact Center Engineer

Optum · Basking Ridge, NJ · 1 wk ago
Engineering$92k–$164k/yrFull-time

Primary Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and enhance proactive monitoring and observability capabilities across Contact Center platforms such as NICE CXOne, Amazon Connect and related integrations
  • Collaborate with developers, architects, security teams, and platform owners to establish and enforce logging, tracing, and monitoring standards to strengthen platform reliability and supportability
  • Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents and customer reported issues, ensuring timely communication, detailed root cause analysis, and permanent remediation steps
  • Participate in on-call rotations, manage critical outages, drive cross-team bridge calls, and ensure accurate incident documentation and post incident reviews
  • Create and maintain monitoring dashboards and alerting configurations using tools such as Splunk, CloudWatch, Zabbix, Grafana, or similar
  • Analyze end-to-end contact flows and customer interaction journeys to identify defects, performance issues, or configuration gaps
  • Work closely with CCaaS vendors and third-party partners to improve operational capabilities, optimize integrations, and ensure adherence to best practices
  • Conduct change reviews, validate deployment readiness, and help implement safe, controlled releases into production environments
  • Develop automation and operational tooling using scripting and enterprise-approved AI tools to improve issue detection, reduce manual effort, and streamline repetitive support activities
  • Use enterprise-approved AI tools to streamline software engineering workflows, automate routine tasks, and drive continuous operational improvement
  • Evaluate emerging technology and industry trends to inform solution design, optimize CCaaS environments, and drive strategic innovation
  • Contribute to knowledge sharing by creating troubleshooting playbooks, updating guides, diagrams, and training sessions for broader support and operations teams

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree OR 4+ years of software engineering experience
  • 3+ years of experience supporting NICE CXOne Contact Center platform, Good to have Amazon Connect experience
  • 3+ years of experience as a level 3 contact center production support engineer
  • 3+ years of understanding of telephony concepts - (Call Routing, SIP, Agent Desktop, CRM, Chat)
  • 3+ years of experience in observability, monitoring, and troubleshooting within large-scale production environments
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience with at least two of the monitoring/observability tools (Splunk, Zabbix, AWS CloudWatch, Datadog)
  • 1+ years of cloud experience in one of the following - AWS, Azure, or GCP

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field
  • Experience leveraging enterprise-approved AI productivity tools (such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or other AI-assisted coding/automation assistants) to accelerate development and optimize daily workflows
  • Certifications related to Contact center platforms
  • Solid understanding of cloud network infrastructure, API integrations, and secure deployment pipelines
  • Strong communication and documentation skills, with experience creating troubleshooting playbooks and technical diagrams for operational teams

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