A two-billion-dollar global leader in the high performance and lifestyle footwear industry, Skechers USA, Inc. designs, develops and markets more than 3,000 styles for men, women and children. Skechers' success stems from its employees, high-quality, varied product offering, diversified domestic and international distribution channels, and targeted multi-channel marketing. 

The company offers two distinct footwear categories: a lifestyle division which includes Skechers Memory Foam and the charity line BOBS from Skechers, and Skechers Performance which includes Skechers GOrun and Skechers GOwalk footwear. Through licensing agreements, the company also offers branded apparel, bags, eyewear and more. 

Celebrity product endorsees for Skechers' collections include the world famous drummer Ringo Starr, multi-platinum recording artist Demi Lovato, model and actress Kelly Brook, TV personality Brooke Burke-Charvet, legendary quarterbacks Joe Montana and Joe Namath, baseball stars Pete Rose and Mariano Rivera, and The Voice winner Danielle Bradbery. In addition, elite marathon champion and Boston Marathon winner Meb Keflezighi, elite runner Kara Goucher, and pro golfer Matt Kuchar represent the Skechers Performance Division. 

The Company sells its footwear in department, specialty and independent stores, as well as through more than 1000 Company-owned Skechers retail stores and online at skechers.com. Beyond the United States, Skechers product is available in more than 120 countries and territories through an international network of subsidiaries in Canada, Brazil, Chile, Japan, and across Europe, as well as through joint ventures in Asia and distributors around the world. 

Skechers ships product through a 1.82 million square-foot, fully automated, LEED-Gold certified distribution facility in California that serves North America. The Company also operates a 753,000-square-foot facility in Belgium that serves Europe and ships directly to the rest of the planet.

The Sr. Systems Engineer is responsible for technical architecture, planning, implementation, performance monitoring, tuning, and maintenance of Skechers’ network, active directory domain, and other Windows based infrastructure components. Serves as subject matter expert in the area of systems administration/engineering. Evaluates, and analyses project requirements to determine feasibility, and develops specifications, and action plans to implement new products to accommodate business needs.


ESSENTIAL JOB RESULTS
 
• Maintenance/troubleshooting/architecture of Skechers Active Directory infrastructure in a heterogeneous, multi-domain environment
• Manage/maintain Skechers DNS infrastructure worldwide, including child domains in remote offices
• Document all work thoroughly and completely, in troubletickets, maintenance notifications, outage resolutions, service/network diagrams, runbooks, etc.
• Hardware/Software troubleshooting of server infrastructure
• Coordinate work with other engineers, DBAs, admins, etc. to accomplish tasks and mutual goals


ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Mentoring/knowledge transfer with other engineers to facilitate cross training and mutual skill development
• Provide troubleshooting/problem resolution assistance to help desk and client services staff on issues requiring escalation
• Takes lead on escalated issues, and coordinates involvement of all necessary parties, including other business units, help desk staff, outside vendors, or third party partners.
• Assist other business units in evaluating proposed software, or hardware solutions
• On-call for scheduled and emergency after-hours support/maintenance.
• Deployment of infrastructure in remote offices, either onsite or remotely as circumstances require
• Other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

• No

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Must be able to lift, and rack servers weighing ~50 lbs.
• Ability to multi-task and self-prioritize important tasks
• Employs excellent verbal and written communication skills in engaging with coworkers, and other business units
• Assist with development, implementation, and ensure compliance with security standards in Windows environment, including Anti-virus, security patches, GPO administration, malware detection/response, etc.
• Assist in developing/implementing Information Security policies, specifically in regards to the Windows environment
• Self-motivated, and able to manage time efficiently with minimal supervision
• Strong troubleshooting/critical thinking skills


EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Systems management concepts, procedures, best practices, and application suites
• Managing/deploying one or more Anti-virus/Anti-malware platforms
• SAN Infrastructure
• VMware, or other virtualization platforms
• LANDesk experience ideal, but other asset management platform experience acceptable
• 5 or more years’ experience in the IT field
• Extensive background with Active Directory internals, and related subsystems such as DNS, Kerberos, DHCP, Certificate/PKI infrastructure, RPC, etc.
• Systems management of all Windows systems in the Enterprise, including maintaining inventory, maintenance schedules, monitoring backups, OS upgrades, patches, firmware, drivers, GPO policy, etc.
• Day to day infrastructure maintenance, including health checks, diagnosis, root cause analysis, and remediation of critical, and non-critical events
• Assist in development of Disaster Recovery/Data Availability policies, procedures and practices
• Monitor systems infrastructure, and respond to service interruptions, performance degradations, or other adverse events
• Good fundamental network skills, including a working understanding of TCP/IP

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.