Senior Collaboration Platform Engineer, Zoom or Google Workspace

$100K — $130K *
Wayne, PA 19087In-Person
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 5 years in platform engineering or similar role
  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  • Expertise in unified communications and collaboration engineering
  • Hands-on experience with platforms like Zoom, Webex, or Google Workspace
  • Demonstrated technical leadership and influence among cross-functional teams
  • Proficiency in troubleshooting across multiple technology domains
  • Solid understanding of networking and security fundamentals

Responsibilities

  • Design and manage enterprise communication platforms aligned to business needs
  • Provide senior-level support for mission-critical services and troubleshoot issues
  • Define platform architecture and enforce technical standards
  • Lead delivery of platform projects from requirements to operational support
  • Evaluate and recommend vendor platforms based on strategic criteria
  • Document operational procedures and mentor junior engineers
  • Conduct systems analysis to ensure compliance with enterprise standards

Benefits

  • Professional development opportunities and mentorship
  • Exposure to advanced communication technologies and strategic solutions
  • Ability to influence design decisions in a cross-functional environment
  • Opportunity to lead implementations with significant business impact
  • Supportive team culture focused on collaboration and operational excellence
Full Job Description
  • Designs, implements, and owns enterprise collaboration platforms such as Zoom or Google Workspace to meet business, regulatory, and operational requirements. Identifies systemic gaps and opportunities to improve resiliency, performance, and user experience.

  • Defines and enforces platform architecture and technical standards, influencing design decisions across network, security, identity, and end-user computing teams. Ensures alignment with enterprise controls including firewall/proxy rules, certificates/TLS, conditional access, logging, and monitoring.

  • Leads end-to-end implementation initiatives, including requirements gathering, solution design, pilot execution, production rollout, and operational handoff. Manages change control processes and provides post-deployment support.

  • Evaluates platform capabilities, vendor offerings, and roadmaps with consideration for security, compliance, scalability, availability, and user experience. Recommends platform improvements and drives adoption of strategic capabilities.

  • Develops and maintains operational documentation, including runbooks, governance standards, and incident/problem management procedures. Mentors junior engineers and provides escalation support.

  • Performs systems analysis, including requirements definition and logical/physical design for collaboration platforms. Ensures solutions meet enterprise risk, compliance, and availability expectations.

  • Participates in special projects and cross-functional initiatives supporting collaboration platform reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.

Qualifications

  • Minimum of eight years related work experience.

  • Undergraduate degree in a related field or the equivalent combination of training and experience.

  • In depth experience in collaboration engineering or adjacent enterprise platform roles with ownership of production platforms.

  • Hands-on experience administering and troubleshooting enterprise collaboration platforms such as Zoom, Webex, Google Workspace, or similar cloud-based communication and productivity services

  • Demonstrated technical leadership with the ability to set standards, influence cross-functional stakeholders, and drive sound engineering decisions without direct authority.

  • Strong troubleshooting skills across endpoints, identity, networking, security, and cloud services, with proven experience in incident response and root cause analysis.

  • Broad foundational knowledge of networking and security concepts, including DNS/DHCP, routing, firewalls/proxies, VPN, certificates/TLS, SSO/MFA, and conditional access.

  • Experience leading complex implementations and platform improvements through risk assessment, change management, and stakeholder communication.

  • Proven ability to support high-availability production services in regulated environments using structured change, incident, and problem management practices.

  • Strong communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders and produce clear documentation and operational runbooks.

Additional Information

This role is focused on cloud collaboration platform engineering (e.g., Zoom, Google Workspace, Webex) and does not involve traditional telephony systems, contact center platforms, or conference room hardware deployment.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

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