The Network Engineer EMEA is responsible for the design, implementation, operation, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement of secure and resilient network services across EMEA distribution centers, offices, showrooms, and data-center or cloud-connected environments. The role combines hands-on engineering with project delivery, operational ownership, documentation, vendor coordination, and partnership with global IT and Information Security teams.

Network architecture and engineering

• Design, deploy, and optimize enterprise LAN, WAN, wireless, Internet, VPN, and data-center connectivity for new and existing EMEA sites.
• Develop scalable reference designs, technical standards, configurations, and implementation patterns aligned with global architecture and business requirements.
• Engineer routing, switching, segmentation, high availability, quality of service, IP addressing, DHCP, DNS, and resilient Internet connectivity.
• Validate capacity, coverage, redundancy, performance, and supportability before production handover.

Operations, reliability, and lifecycle management

• Own day-to-day health and performance of network services, including proactive monitoring, incident troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Plan and execute firmware, software, configuration, hardware refresh, and end-of-life activities using approved change-management processes.
• Maintain backups, inventories, diagrams, circuit details, support contracts, operational procedures, and recovery information.
• Participate in the after-hours support and escalation rotation for critical network incidents and planned changes.

Project delivery and site implementation

• Provide network workstreams for new buildings, expansions, relocations, office or showroom deployments, and infrastructure modernization projects.
• Create technical requirements and bills of materials; review proposals, quotations, implementation plans, and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate carriers, cabling partners, managed service providers, smart-hands teams, construction stakeholders, and local IT support.
• Perform or oversee site surveys, rack and stack, structured-cabling validation, wireless readiness, testing, cutover, stabilization, and formal handover.

Security, governance, and collaboration

• Implement approved network security architecture and controls, including segmentation, firewall policy changes, secure remote access, and configuration hardening, in coordination with the dedicated Information Security function.
• Apply least-privilege access, peer review, change control, and documented rollback plans to network changes.
• Partner with global infrastructure, cloud, systems, service desk, application, distribution-center support, and business teams to resolve dependencies and deliver integrated solutions.
• Communicate risks, outages, technical constraints, options, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Telecommunications, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5 or more years of hands-on experience in enterprise network engineering or administration, ideally supporting multiple sites and business-critical operations.
• Demonstrated experience delivering production network changes, site deployments, migrations, upgrades, and complex incident resolution.
• Current or recent certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, Aruba, Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft Azure, or equivalent are preferred.

Technical Skills

• Strong knowledge of Ethernet, TCP/IP, IPv4, subnetting, VLANs, STP, LACP, OSPF, BGP fundamentals, NAT, DNS, DHCP, NTP, SNMP, QoS, VPN, and network troubleshooting methods.
• Hands-on ability with enterprise routers, switches, wireless platforms, firewalls, and cloud-managed network platforms.
• Ability to diagnose issues across physical, data-link, network, transport, wireless, security-policy, carrier, and application-dependency layers.
• Understanding of network resilience, monitoring, capacity, configuration management, lifecycle management, and disaster-recovery principles.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure networking and hybrid enterprise connectivity.
• Ability to create accurate logical and physical diagrams, low-level designs, implementation plans, test plans, rollback plans, standards, and support procedures.
• Basic scripting or API-based automation for validation, reporting, or repetitive operational tasks is an advantage, but is not the primary focus of the role.
• Professional working proficiency in English and French is required.  Knowledge of additional EMEA languages is an advantage.

Soft Skills

• Takes end-to-end ownership and follows issues, changes, and project actions through to a documented and supportable conclusion.
• Works methodically, validates assumptions, tests changes, and escalates risks early rather than relying on trial and error in production.
• Balances standardization with practical business needs and explains technical constraints without assigning blame.
• Collaborates effectively across regions, time zones, cultures, and technical disciplines while remaining clear about responsibilities and decision points.
• Prioritizes service stability and operational readiness, especially in distribution-center and other business-critical environments.
• Manages multiple workstreams with clear priorities, status updates, deadlines, dependencies, and stakeholder communication.
• Continuously develops technical knowledge and proposes improvements supported by evidence, operational value, and lifecycle considerations.

You bring your skills to Skechers, and in return, we offer you:

• A key technical role at the heart of a modern, multi-site enterprise network environment, constantly evolving and covering the entire EMEA region.
• A strategic position reporting to the European Infrastructure Manager, with direct influence over the design, reliability, and security of the organization's business-critical network services.
• A dynamic and varied work environment, combining hands-on engineering, project management, and collaboration with global IT and Information Security teams.
• Real autonomy and end-to-end ownership, within an organization that values initiative, rigor, and technical accountability.
• The opportunity to work for a fast-growing global brand, whose logistics and technology footprint in Europe continues to expand.
• A permanent full-time contract, with daytime hours, a salary package aligned with the level of responsibility of the role, and Skechers-specific perks: access to the company gym and employee product discounts.