Senior Asterisk Engineer<br>Location: Volo, IL (Chicago Northwest)<br>Type: Contracted to Full Time<br>Min. Experience: Experienced<br>Reply to: <a href="mailto:voipeng@atomampd.com">voipeng@atomampd.com</a><br><br>The Opportunity<br>
<br>AtomOS is an emerging leader in flexible cloud integrated premises software for the SMB market. We are an energetic, dedicated and fun group of professionals Headquartered in Volo, IL. We are seeking an Asterisk Engineer to play a key role in designing and building AtomOS's next generation Asterisk-based VoIP solution. You should have knowledge of Asterisk 10/11 and extensive field experience with VoIP and audio engineering to back it up. <br>
<br>The ideal candidate is passionate about creating and automating dial plans and Asterisk configs. You take pride in your low jitter and packet loss, and have an MOS of at least 4.0. You should dream about SIP at night, and have a burning desire to remove nf_nat_sip from the Linux Kernel. You are ready to build and support the best Asterisk-based VoIP product on the market.<br>
<br>Responsibilities<br><br> Work with the AtomOS team to upgrade and enhance the VoIP feature set<br> Build and maintain a low level programatic layer to manage Asterisk configurations, and to manage and monitor the VoIP server<br>
Help to define the next generation of VoIP features and capabilities<br> Work closely with product management, our engineering team and our clients<br> Rapidly fix bugs and solve problems<br> Proactively look for ways to meet customers’ current and future needs<br>
<br>Required<br><br> Extensive knowledge of Asterisk (10/11 preferred)<br> 5 years of field experience with VoIP deployments in a service provider/telco environment.<br> Expertise with SIP and its bandwidth, firewall and QoS requirements in real deployment environments<br>
Knowledge and experience with VoIP audio codecs such as G.729 and G.722<br> Experience of Creating Dial Plan applications, AGI, AMI<br> Knowledge on setting & configuration of various communication cards.<br>
Solid Linux knowledge<br> Sound hardware and audio engineering experience<br> Excellent communication and organizational skills<br> The ability to balance multiple roles, tasks and projects effectively<br><br>
Pluses<br><br> Recognized Asterisk and/or Linux certificates<br> Linux Kernel customization and/or development<br> Contributor to Asterisk or Asterisk-related projects<br> Works with source control systems such as GIT or SVN<br>
Scrum or other agile methodologies<br><br>This position requires that you be able to work remotely, and attend on-site meetings from time to time as needed.<br><br>