Associate Telecommunications Engineer- Salt Lake City Office

Remote, USA
Posted Jun 14, 2026
Full-time

Western Governors University is committed to expanding access to higher education through innovative online programs. The Associate Telecommunications Engineer will be responsible for implementing and troubleshooting telephony and cloud-based contact center solutions, ensuring efficient operations and support for end-users.

Responsibilities

  • Creates, changes, and removes users, groups, and roles in Genesys Purecloud
  • Deploys new contact center technology
  • Troubleshoots and maintains corporate contact center related systems
  • Escalates incident resolution
  • Creates, changes, and removes Genesys Purecloud contact workflows and IVRs
  • Performs call detail reporting, administration, and data analysis
  • Proactively monitors platform uptime and issues
  • Maintains responsibility for deployment of ACD, skills-based routing, and reporting for all contact centers at the University
  • Assists with data integrations between Genesys Purecloud and CRM systems, as well as CTI integrations
  • Participates in planning and design of contact center initiatives
  • Assists management with vetting, selecting, and implementing new telephone solutions and additions
  • Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Skills

  • Associate's Degree
  • 1 year of experience in contact center administration
  • Experience with cloud-based telephony, CTI, SIP/VoIP phones and protocols, Qos, IVRs, and call recording
  • Solid understanding of contact center/telecommunications concepts
  • Ability to interface with internal departments, vendors, and customer organizations to see any technical issue through to completion
  • Ability to act as a strong technical resource on customer facing projects
  • Self-starter with a strong initiative, who can work autonomously under tight deadlines
  • Ability to utilize strong problem-solving techniques to trouble-shoot and achieve efficient problem resolution
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong customer focus
  • Understanding of Qos standards and policies
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work within all levels of the organization
  • Demonstrated project management skills
  • Ability to work with a team, communicate, present, and facilitate
  • Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunications, Networking, or a related field
  • 3 years of experience in contact center administration
  • Genesys Certified Associate certification
  • Experience with Agile, Scrum, and/or ITIL methodologies

Benefits

  • Bonuses
  • Medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare
  • Health savings account and flexible spending account
  • Basic and voluntary life insurance
  • Disability coverage
  • Accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages
  • Legal and identity theft coverage
  • Retirement savings plan
  • Wellbeing program
  • Discounted WGU tuition
  • Flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual
  • Flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual
  • 11 paid holidays
  • Other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave

Company Overview

  • Western Governors University focuses on improving lives by creating pathways to opportunity for its students. It was founded in 1997, and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is http://www.wgu.edu/.

  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Western Governors University has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 6 in 2025, 4 in 2024, 12 in 2023, 30 in 2022, 17 in 2021, 37 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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