VoIP engineer, Linux developer ( Asterisk, 2+ years, Perl, MySQL)
ESSEX BASED – Small but growing hosted VoIP provider requiring experienced engineer to join our team. Looking for a team player who is keen to be involved in new ideas.
The successful candidate is required to have:
-2+ years of VoIP (Asterisk, SER/Kamailio), incl. experience of independently setting up VoIP systems.
-Familiarity with AGI and able to develop in Perl
-Working with large Servers and carrier grade hardware.
-Strong Linux background (RedHat/Centos/Debian)
-Thorough understanding of the principles of VoIP telephony (SIP)
-Working knowledge (experience) of SQL based DBMS, MySQL.
Desired skills:
-Web development experience, HTML/XML/SOAP programming.
Your duties (role) will include:
-Support the company and its client’s Hosted VOIP platform, help in developing new services.
-Looking after existing infrastructure, modifying and updating services.
-Deploy new VOIP platform to new customers.
-Provide hardware maintenance and general technical support for the platform.
-Liaise with other members of both, technical and sales teams, on service planning, capacity forecast, quality issues, etc…
-Report to manager, on all service outages and take proactive steps to minimize downtime.
Tent provided Salary £30,000+ based on experience.
It’s an odd job market at the moment. We are struggling to fill posts on a higher salary [albeit only 20 – 30% higher], with lower required skills, and yet when I look at ads, people are asking for the moon and offering …
If you look at the Grauniad job pages, there are quite often really specific ads paying peanuts. “Global logistics manager, must have fluent Korean – £20k” – that’s a real one from a few years back. I wondered about this and concluded that the job must be promised to someone, but they had to advertise it for form’s sake.
This, however, was sent to a big list by someone who presumably meant it.
(PS, I believe you formally ask for the moon on a stick.)
If you look at the Grauniad job pages, there are quite often really specific ads paying peanuts. “Global logistics manager, must have fluent Korean – £20k” – that’s a real one from a few years back. I wondered about this and concluded that the job must be promised to someone, but they had to advertise it for form’s sake.
The Economist was the best for this. I remember one from a few years ago that was looking for someone to take over a public health project in Afghanistan. “The successful candidate will have a PhD or equivalent in public health, at least ten years experience in the prevention of waterborne diseases, at least five years experience running a major public health programme in a developing country, and will be fluent in Pashtu and/or Dari.” And you think “there can’t be more than three people in the world who fit that spec. One of them has obviously just stepped down; can’t they just phone up and ask the other two?”