Job Description:
Building trusted markets — powered by our people
At Cboe Global Markets, we inspire our people to solve complex challenges together because what we do matters. We providethe financialinfrastructure that powers the global economy. As a leading provider of market infrastructure and tradable products, Cboe deliverscutting-edgetrading, clearing and investment solutions to market participants around the world.
We’rebuilding meaningful ways to support professional and personal development while strengthening the trustwe’veearned as a global market leader. Our teams are empowered to share ideas, actively pursuethemand bring on a challenge. As champions of internal mobility and access to opportunity, we encourage our people to “go for it” and equip our managers with the training to coach their teams to the next level. We strive to provideemployeesa safe space to network, shareideasand create opportunities.
Location Overview
Cboe Global Marketsoperatesa key office in the Overland Park Xchange (OPx),locatedin Overland Park, Kansas, a bustling suburb of Kansas City. TheOPxbusiness park is strategically positioned to provide convenient access to the Kansas City metropolitan area, offering modern infrastructure and a collaborative environment ideal for the financial services and technology industries. This location benefits from proximity to major highways, making it easily accessible for employees
TheOPxsite provides a balance of high-quality office space, advanced facilities, and an environment conducive to productivity and growth.
Role Overview
Our Engineers design, develop, deploy, and operate market surveillance systems. We process data from multiple equities, options and futures market exchange platforms across the US and Europe and are growing across other regions and market venues around the globe. We architect systems that can analyze billions of events per day. We optimize for increased data volumes. We strive to create insights and data that provides actionable intelligence to our analysts to ensure fair, orderly, and compliant operation of all our markets. We are analytical thinkers; we are humble and always striving to learn something new.
We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer who will share ownership of operations, performance, capacity testing, capacity planning, and monitoring of multiple regulatory systems. These systems process billions of financial transactions daily. Additionally, this role will be responsible for developing and maintaining performance test automation and monitoring tools for regulatory systems.
Productive collaboration is required with technical stakeholders both inside and outside the department. The candidate will monitor systems’ health and performance and understand expected application lifecycles. This position requires an individual to have strong problem solving and data analysis skills. We are revamping our technology stack and this is a unique opportunity to become part of that transition and define the scope of this role as we roll out the new technology stack.
Your responsibilities will be:
- Monitor and operate the regulatory systems, take proactive measures to mitigate production issues
- Implement monitoring tools for live applications that provide real-time as well as backward looking insights into application performance, OS, and hardware level metrics
- Develop tools as needed to stress test big data systems used for market surveillance
- Conduct breaking point tests on surveillance applications in a highly automated and reproducible manner
- Analyze data to produce management reports that draw attention to key action items
- Automate deployment pipeline for applications running on Linux platform ensuring appropriate software standards and performance goals are enforced as software moves from lower to higher environments
- Design effective dashboards for technical and non-technical audience to visualize overall real time state of the system
- Write and maintain system health checks and test automation scripts
- Collaborate with operations team to deploy appropriate instrumentation and measurement tools that support the performance testing effort
- Define and document application performance monitoring processes, policies, and procedures
- Ensure that all systems are reliable and recoverable
- Participate in production on-call support rotation and occasional weekend testing requirements
- Utilize deployment automation technologies like SALT and Jenkins
The ideal candidate has
- 2+ years of experience operating high throughput low latency applications in Production environments; can be substituted by strong academic background and critical thinking skills appropriate to handle such production applications
- 2+ years of experience in managing batch-oriented process orchestration using script tools or applicable third-party tooling; can be substituted by strong academic background and critical thinking skills appropriate to handle such production applications
- Experience with performance monitoring, analysis and capacity testing in an enterprise environment.
- Experience building web tools and dashboards for application monitoring
- Experience writing SQL queries, analyzing query plans of SQL queries and making performance enhancements to the queries
- Experience using Snowflake or similar could hosted data warehouse as an application programmer or SRE
- Experience developing testing automation tools, bash scripts, and monitoring dashboards
- Experience operating systems in a hybrid cloud environment
- Experience working as a Systems engineer with Linux systems; comfortable with using system commands to gather performance data
- Able to capture performance metrics and tune network storage systems like SAN, NFS
- Proficient in python 3.x scripting and other scripting languages
- Postgres experience is a plus
- Experience with AWS is a plus
- Experience with build automation tooling is a plus
- Exchange technology or market regulatory technology experience will be a plus
- Prior financial services industry experience will be a plus
- Degree in computer science, engineering, or similar discipline
Benefits and Perksof working for Cboe Global Markets
We value the total wellbeing of our people – including health, financial,personaland social wellness. We believe standard benefits like health insurance and fair pay area givenatany organization. Still, you should know we offer:
- Fair and competitive salary and incentive compensation packages with an upside for overachievement
- Generous paid time off, including vacation, personal days, sickdaysand annual community service days
- Health, dental and vision benefits, including access to telemedicine and mental health services
- 2:1 401(k) match, up to 8% matchimmediatelyupon hire
- Discounted Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Tax Savings Accounts for health,dependentand transportation
- Employee referral bonus program
- Volunteer opportunities to help you give back to your communities
Some of our associates’ favorite benefits andperksinclude:
- Complimentary lunch,snacksand coffee in any Cboe office
- Paid Tuitionassistanceand education opportunities
- Generous charitable giving company match
- Paid parental leave and fertility benefits
- On-site gyms and discounts to other fitness centers
More About CboeGlobal Markets
We’rereimagining the future of the workplace by focusing on what matters most, our people. Our journey is an inclusive one.We’reinvesting deeply in leadership programs and career development initiatives that ensure everyone has an equal chance to succeed.
We work with purpose, solving problems with ingenuity, collaboration, and a lot of passion.We’rean engaged and excited team connecting markets across borders and embracing growth in all its forms to achieve incredible outcomes.
Learn more about life at Cboe onour websiteandLinkedIn.
Equal Employment Opportunity
We'reproud to be an equal opportunity employer do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on any legally protected characteristic, including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, orVeteran status. We are committed to fostering a workplace where all individuals are valued and respected.
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This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship now or in the future.
Our pay ranges are determined by a number of factors, including, but not limited to, role, experience, level, and location. The national new hire base pay range for this job in the United States is $97,750-$120,750. This range represents the minimum and maximum base pay the company expects to offer for new hires working in the position full time. If you live in one of the following areas or if you work in a Cboe office in the following areas, the range may be higher according to the geographic differentials listed below:
US Geographic Differentials:
- 110%: Austin TX, Chicago IL, Denver CO, San Diego CA
- 115%: Los Angeles CA, Seattle WA
- 120%: Boston MA, Washington DC
Within the range, individual pay is determined by a number of factors, including, but not limited to, work location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. In addition to base pay, our total rewards program includes an annual variable pay program and benefits including healthcare (medical, dental and vision), 401 (k) with a generous company match, life and disability insurance, paid time off, market-leading tuition assistance, and much more! Your recruiter will provide more details about the total compensation package, including variable pay and benefits, during the hiring process. For further information on our total rewards program, visit TOTAL REWARDS @CBOE.
Any communication from Cboe regarding this position will only come from a Cboe recruiter who has a @cboe.com email or via LinkedIn Recruiter. Cboe does not use any other third party communication tools for recruiting purposes.
