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.

This Cloud Engineer position provides design and engineering support for Skechers’ cloud infrastructure applications. The incumbent will be an experienced technical professional who has the capability of to embrace and expand the exsisting Cloud Infrastructure. As a Cloud Engineer you will be responsible for the day-to-day tasks requested, coordination with respective internal stakeholders, 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.
• Participate in 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.

JOB REQUIREMENTS-

• 3-10 years of experience supporting mission critical infrastructure services at a large organization.
• 2+ years deploying/managing cloud-based network infrastructures.
• Experience in cloud computing-based services architecture, technical design and implementations including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS delivery models.
• Expertise in architecting secure cloud solutions.
• Experience with 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-

• Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastrucutre(OCI)
• Managing and deploying VCNs in OCI
• Ability and working experience in bash, batch, NodeJs 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 Certification preferred

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

The salary range for this position is $120,000-$150,000/year.

Benefits:

• Paid Parental Leave: including time for fathers and adopting parents.
• Short term & long term disability and life insurance at no cost to the employee.
• Extensive medical, dental, and vision plans with multiple carries, including EPO,HPN and PPO plans.
• Competitive 401k plan and employer matching.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Savings Account (FSA) offerings.
• Paid vacation, sick, personal and holiday time.
• Pet Insurance available.
• Onsite wellness programs at company headquarters including fitness classes, acupuncture, and chiropractor.
• Employee stock purchase program
• Employee product discount of 50%; employee sample sales and family and friends discount throughout the year. 
• Skechers Company Culture and growth strategy is deeply infused with internal career growth and opportunities for learning.