Kore.ai Technology/Software

Voice Operations Engineer – 24×7 Customer Support

Hyderabad, India In person Full-time

About the Role

  • ·We are seeking a skilled and customer-focused Voice Operations Engineer to join our 24×7
  • ·Voice Gateway Operations team. The role will support enterprise customers, troubleshoot
  • ·real-time voice and telephony issues, monitor production environments, and ensure timely
  • ·resolution of incidents across global regions.
  • ·The ideal candidate will have strong knowledge of voice protocols, networking, Linux
  • ·administration, monitoring tools, and excellent customer communication skills. The ability to
  • ·remain calm under pressure, ask the right diagnostic questions, and clearly articulate
  • ·technical findings is essential.

Key Responsibilities

  • ·Provide 24×7 operational support for Voice Gateway, telephony, SIP, RTP, SBC, and
  • contact-center environments.
  • ·Monitor voice infrastructure, call quality, service availability, traffic patterns, and system health.
  • ·Troubleshoot issues related to call failures, call drops, one-way audio, no audio, DTMF, codec negotiation, SIP registration, routing, and media connectivity.
  • ·Analyze SIP signaling and RTP media flows to identify the root cause of customer-
  • impacting issues.
  • ·Use tools such as Homer, Grafana, VoIP monitoring platforms, logs, traces, dashboards, and packet captures for troubleshooting.
  • ·Investigate network, firewall, DNS, NAT, routing, port-access, and connectivity-related issues.
  • ·Work with customers to collect call IDs, timestamps, SIP traces, source IPs, network
  • details, recordings, and other relevant diagnostic information.
  • ·Communicate clearly with customers during incidents, explain the problem statement, provide regular updates, and set appropriate expectations.
  • ·Collaborate with Engineering, DevOps, QA, Product, carriers, SBC teams, and third-
  • party vendors to drive issues to closure.
  • ·Perform initial incident triage, impact assessment, escalation, and follow-up based on defined SLAs.
  • ·Maintain accurate incident records, troubleshooting notes, root-cause analysis, and
  • customer communication history.
  • ·Support production deployments, configuration changes, service restarts, feature
  • enablement, and post-change validation.
  • ·Identify recurring issues and recommend preventive actions to improve platform reliabilityand customer experience.
  • ·Participate in shift rotations, weekend coverage, incident bridges, and major customer escalations.

Required Qualifications

3–5 years of experience in Voice Operations, NOC, Technical Support, Network Operations, Telecom Operations, or a related role.

Strong understanding of voice and telephony protocols, including

·SIP

·RTP/RTCP

·SDP

·SIP REGISTER, INVITE, ACK, BYE, CANCEL, REFER, and 200 OK flows

·DTMF, codecs, NAT traversal, and media negotiation

Hands-on experience troubleshooting voice issues such as

  • ·Call setup failures
  • ·Call drops and mid-call disconnects
  • ·One-way or no audio
  • ·Audio quality issues
  • ·SIP registration failures
  • ·DTMF failures
  • ·Transfer and routing issues
  • ·Carrier or SBC connectivity problems
  • ·Good knowledge of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, NAT,
  • ·routing, firewalls, ACLs, TLS, and port connectivity.
  • ·Working knowledge of Linux administration, commands, services, logs, processes,
  • ·networking, and basic performance troubleshooting.

Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as

·Homer

·Grafana

  • ·VoIP monitoring platforms
  • ·Prometheus, Datadog, ELK/OpenSearch, or equivalent tools
  • ·Ability to analyze logs, SIP traces, packet captures, and call-flow data.
  • ·Strong problem-solving, debugging, and incident-management skills.
  • ·Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • ·Ability to clearly explain technical issues, findings, impact, and next steps to customers and internal stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

  • ·Experience working with SBCs, SIP carriers, cloud telephony, contact-center platforms, or CPaaS solutions.
  • ·Familiarity with FreeSWITCH, Asterisk, RTP engines, AudioCodes, Twilio, or similar
  • ·voice technologies.
  • ·Experience using Wireshark, tcpdump, sngrep, SIPp, or similar troubleshooting tools.
  • ·Exposure to AWS, GCP, or other cloud environments.
  • ·Knowledge of call-quality metrics such as MOS, jitter, latency, packet loss, and packet-delay variation.
  • ·Experience supporting global enterprise customers in a managed services or SaaS
  • ·environment.
  • ·ITIL certification or experience with structured incident and problem-management
  • ·processes.

Key Attributes

  • ·Customer-focused and committed to timely issue resolution.
  • ·Calm, composed, and effective during high-pressure incidents.
  • ·Strong listener who can ask precise and relevant diagnostic questions.
  • ·Able to convert complex technical findings into a clear customer-facing problem
  • ·statement.
  • ·Fast learner with the ability to adapt to new tools, technologies, and customer
  • ·environments.
  • ·Self-driven and accountable, with strong ownership of assigned incidents.
  • ·Collaborative team player who works effectively across Engineering, DevOps, Product,and Customer Success.
  • ·Flexible and comfortable working in a 24×7 rotational shift environment.
  • ·Proactive in identifying recurring problems and improving operational processes.

Work Schedule

  • This role requires participation in a 24×7 rotational shift model, including night shifts,
  • weekends, and public holidays as part of the operations support schedule.
  • EDUCATION QUALIFICATION: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field(MCA).

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