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

Disaster recovery and Data Center Operations are unique in the IT world because they touch a large portion of all IT. To be successful in DR and DC one needs to have a general understanding of how interdependencies, disciplines and systems interact with each other. Interning in this area will give you an overview of how IT functions interact and provide you with a leg-up on ones career in Information Technology.

Job Purpose

The Data Center Operations & Disaster Recovery Intern will assist in implementing NLyte DCIM SaaS and assist with application dependency mapping and test scripts for Disaster Recovery.

The purpose for this position is to provide the individual experience that touches on large areas of the IT landscape while providing Skechers DC and DRO assistance in implementing critical monitoring and test scripts.

Essential Job Duties

• This role will assist in writing detailed technical DR test plans with various IT groups and subject matter experts.
• Assist with documentation of all elements of technical disaster recovery plans in Service Now.
• Participate in Sev1 and Sev2 incident calls. Possible assignments which will assist in the recovery process
• recommend corrective actions on discovered risks and single points of failure determined through testing and analysis.
• Contribute to the implementation of the DCIM SaaS tool for Data Center management.
• Assist in the development professional reports and metrics.
• Work with the IT technical staff to ensure that disaster recovery solutions are adequate, in place, maintained, and tested as part of the regular operational life cycle.
• Understand all testing necessary for a successful DR execution.
• Help ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state and local laws, regulations, and ordinances.

Qualifications

Essential Skills

• Basic operational Knowledge - Cloud environments, data replication software, backup/recovery and Basic Networking topology, High Availability design and SaaS,Virtualization (vCenter), IT Infrastructure components such as Servers, load balancers, firewalls, DNS, Backup, and server monitoring, Network designs, applications, network, servers, databases, storage elements and IT Security. Familiarity with application interdependency concepts and applications service mapping topologies.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Working on Education in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline.
• Leadership skills and being self-driven.
• Self motivated and a desire to learn

Additional Information

To excel in this role, you must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The skills, abilities, and physical demands described are representative of the duties required to perform the job successfully. 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 a long period of time.

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

Pay range for this position is $25/ hour.