Network Engineer EMEA
The Network Engineer EMEA designs, deploys, and manages secure LAN, WAN, wireless, and VPN infrastructure across European distribution centers and offices. Core technologies include enterprise routing/switching, firewalls, cloud-managed networks, and Azure hybrid connectivity.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Milmort, Belgium
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Network engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Telecom, or related field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of hands-on enterprise network engineering or administration experience
- Experience delivering production network changes, site deployments, migrations, upgrades, and complex incident resolution
- Strong knowledge of Ethernet, TCP/IP, IPv4, subnetting, VLANs, STP, LACP, OSPF, BGP, NAT, DNS, DHCP, NTP, SNMP, QoS, VPN
- Hands-on ability with enterprise routers, switches, wireless platforms, firewalls, and cloud-managed network platforms
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure networking and hybrid enterprise connectivity
- Professional working proficiency in English and French
Nice to have
- CCNA, CCNP, Aruba, Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft Azure, or equivalent certifications
- Basic scripting or API-based automation for validation, reporting, or operational tasks
- Knowledge of additional EMEA languages
Full description
As part of the continued development of its operations across Europe, Skechers is welcoming a Network Engineer EMEA into its Infrastructure IT team. You will be joining a close-knit team, working in close collaboration with a large US-based network team, in a demanding and fast-evolving technology environment, including a large-scale network infrastructure deployment project to lead from day one.
Your Mission
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.
Your Key Responsibilities
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.