Sr. Cloud Engineer

  • Full-time
  • Employment Status: Regular

Company Description

Headquartered in Southern California, Skechers has spent 30 years helping men, women and kids everywhere look and feel good. Developing comfort technologies is at the foundation of all that we do—delivering stylish, innovative, and quality products at a reasonable price. From our diverse footwear offering to a growing range of apparel and accessories, Skechers is a complete lifestyle brand.

With international business representing over half of our total sales, we have product available in more than 180 countries and significant opportunities for continued expansion worldwide. We sell our collections direct to consumers through more than 4,450 Skechers stores around the globe and Skechers e-commerce sites, as well as through a network of third-party partners.

A MULTI-BILLION-DOLLAR GLOBAL LEADER IN THE FOOTWEAR INDUSTRY.

Job Description

This Senior AWS Cloud Engineer position provides advanced design and engineering support for Skechers’ cloud infrastructure applications. It requires experience architecting and deploying cloud-based solutions in AWS.  As a Senior Cloud Engineer you will be responsible for cross functional collaboration to develop, maintain and continuously upgrade our cloud architecture, operations, and support model.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES-

  • Work with technology teams to develop target state cloud architecture, as well as planning for ongoing cloud technology optimization.
  • Drive cloud/ technology discussions and facilitate decision with other teams within the organization.
  • Manage/execute POCs and feasibility studies to validate next-gen product concepts and technologies leveraging results to guide business and technology decisions.
  • Enforce adherence to architectural standards/principles, global product-specific guidelines, usability design standards, governance, cost controls, etc.
  • Drive technical designs to consensus and approval.
  • Work with product owners and other functional teams to translate the roadmap into releases.
  • Keep abreast of and gain expertise in the evolving technology and understand how new technologies could be applied.
  • Develop road map to leverage/use IaaS and PaaS across the organization.

Qualifications

JOB REQUIREMENTS-

  • 5-10 years of experience supporting mission critical infrastructure services at a large organization.
  • 4+ years deploying/managing cloud-based network infrastructures (can be flexible on years).
  • Experience in cloud computing-based services architecture, technical design and implementations including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS delivery models.
  • Expertise in architecting secure cloud solutions.
  • Expertise in AWS IAM Security models.
  • Experience building High Availability/Fault Tolerant Systems.
  • Expertise in creating/updating/maintaining CloudFormation templates or other IaC.
  • Experience using AWS Container solutions (ECS, Fargate, Kubernetes).
  • Experience using Docker containers.
  • Experience using AWS NoSQL solutions such as DynamoDB, MongoDB (a plus).
  • Experience with Elasticache, ElasticSearch, SQS, SNS, Lambda, WorkSpaces among others.
  • Experience with Windows and Linux platforms.
  • DevOps experience monitoring and supporting AWS systems.
  • Thorough understanding of infrastructure automation, continuous integration/continuous deployment and cloud delivery models.
  • Excellent troubleshooting and technical problem-solving skills.
  • Deep expertise in public cloud architecture and transformation strategy as well as product architecture.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS-

  • Ability and working experience in bash, batch, or Python scripting.
  • Understanding of GIT, ansible playbooks and cloud templating.
  • Ability to create business cases for new technology proposals.
  • Working knowledge of at least one configuration management tool, such as Ansible, Chef, and/or Puppet.
  • Working experience with JavaScript Frameworks (Angular), RESTful APIs, JSON and XML formats is a plus.
  • Possess an understanding of system testing including platform, integration, load and scale testing.
  • Knowledge of infrastructure design & server infrastructure implementation.
  • Experience with networking and web standards such as DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, HTTP, web security mechanisms, proxies, firewalls & application delivery controllers.
  • Balance of strategic and tactical skills and the ability to work on cross-functional teams.
  • Ability to write technical documentation (platform architecture, strategy, engineering etc.).
  • Ability to work on multiple concurrent complex projects and to coordinate the work of others in the cloud environment.
  • Proficient at multitasking and proactive in work responsibilities.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE-

AWS Certifiction at professional level

QUALIFICATIONS-

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The skills, abilities and physical demands described are representative of those duties that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, who are otherwise qualified for the job position, to perform the essential functions.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS-

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and talk or hear.  The employee frequently is required to walk; sit, reach with hands and arms, and stoop, kneel. The employee is occasionally required to sit for long period of times.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

The salary range for this position is $135,000 - $180,000/year. 

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