Communications specialist serp_jobs.h1.location_city

Salary : $93,121.60 - $146,494.40 Annually

Location : Irvine, CA

Job Type : Full-Time

Job Number : 03984

Department : Administrative Services

Opening Date : 09 / 17 / 2025

Closing Date : Continuous

Description

This recruitment is open on a continuous basis until filled and will supplement an existing eligibility list that will expire on April 6, 2026. This is a continuous recruitment and interested applicants should submit their application as soon as possible. This recruitment may close at any time without notice.

The Information Technology team at the City of Irvine is seeking a skilled and forward-thinking Unified Communications Engineer to join a high-performing team dedicated to delivering reliable and secure communication services across all City departments. This role will be instrumental in the design, implementation, and maintenance of telephony, collaboration, and audio-visual systems, including Microsoft Teams, AWS Connect, AudioCodes SBCs, Cisco cloud telephony, Zoom, digital signage, and conference room technologies. The ideal candidate will bring a strong background in unified communications engineering, project leadership, and vendor management, with a focus on ensuring seamless collaboration, operational resilience, and compliance with public safety requirements. This position requires excellent technical expertise, attention to detail, and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, vendors, and public safety stakeholders. The Unified Communications Engineer will play a key role in ensuring that City staff, leadership, and public safety teams have the tools and technologies they need to serve the community effectively.

Your Impact

• Administer and support unified communications platforms including Microsoft Teams, AWS Connect, Cisco hosted telephony, AudioCodes SBCs, and Zoom.
• Oversee and enhance conference room AV systems, ensuring reliable performance for meetings, collaboration, and public engagement.
• Administer the Police Department's phone recording system, ensuring compliance, reliability, and secure retention of records.
• Lead UC buildouts for new City facilities, coordinating design, vendor engagement, and implementation.
• Guide upgrade and replacement projects that modernize the City's UC infrastructure.
• Partner with leadership to support budgeting, licensing, and vendor contract management.
• Collaborate with IT, networking, and security teams to ensure communications are resilient, secure, and accessible to all departments.
• Find additional information in the Information Technology Specialist I job description.

Minimum Qualifications

Highly Desired :

Best Fit

Your Team

The Mission of the Employees of the City of Irvine is to create and maintain a community where people can live, work, and play in an environment that is safe, vibrant, and aesthetically pleasing. We are one team that exists to serve our community in the continual pursuit of a City that offers an exceptional quality of life. The City of Irvine's five values of Humility , Innovation , Empathy , Passion , and Integrity reflect the interests and needs of the community, and the level of service they expect and desire. We are One Irvine through embrace of a team-oriented approach by living our values every day.

is committed to sound fiscal stewardship in maximizing the City's ability to deliver high-quality services to the community. The department consists of six areas : Administration, Fiscal Services, Budget and Strategic Planning, Purchasing, Information Technology, and Geographical Information Systems (GIS).

Supplemental Information

The Process

The selection process will include an examination and conduct a background investigation prior to appointment which includes a . This recruitment may establish an eligibility list to fill future positions in similar and / or lower classifications within the organization.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The City of Irvine is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. We encourage you to inform Human Resources at least two business days prior to the first phase of the selection process if you have a disability that may require an accommodation.

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How many years of experience do you have working in a unified communications engineering role?

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What relevant certifications do you possess?

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Please describe the most complex unified communications environment you have implemented and / or supported.

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What unified communications and telephony systems have you worked with?

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How do you approach troubleshooting call connection and quality issues?

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How have you used agile methods to manage projects and workloads?

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What is your level of knowledge in ITIL?

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Are you willing to work an on-call schedule and be available to support critical outages outside of regular business hours?

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Are you willing to work outside of business hours as needed to complete system implementations, upgrades, maintenance, patching, and repairs?

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