Cloud Engineer

Description

Building trusted markets —powered by our people.

At Cboe, we inspire our people to solve complex challenges together because what we do matters. We provide the financial infrastructure that powers the global economy. As a leading provider of market infrastructure and tradable products, Cboe delivers cutting-edge trading, clearing and investment solutions to market participants around the world.

We’re building inclusive ways to support professional and personal developmentwhile strengthening the trust we’ve earned as a global market leader. Our teams are empowered to share ideas, actively pursue them and bring on a challenge. As champions of internal mobility and access toopportunity, we encourage our people to “go for it” and equip our managers with the training to coach their teams to the next level. Our Associate Resource Groups champion diversity, equity and inclusion, giving associates a safe space to network, share ideas and create opportunities.

Sound like the place for you? Join us!

The Cloud Engineering team is hiring a Cloud Engineer.

The Cloud Engineer is responsible forbuilding and maintainingCboe’s cloud platform, a globally distributed, secure, scalable, and reliable public cloud infrastructure. This role is focused on execution, automation, and supporting infrastructure solutions for cloud-native applications. Cloud Engineers are expected to participatein project delivery, contribute to team processes, and grow their technical depth through hands-on work and collaboration.

In this role you’ll :

Build and maintaina globally distributed cloud infrastructure platform using Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform).

Participate in project teams to deliver cloud solutions under the guidance of senior engineers.

Support and enhance CI / CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.

Maintain and support cloud environments, including incident response, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.

Document infrastructure designs, standard operating procedures, and support runbooks.

Create and maintain clear, accurate documentation tailored to the target audience (e.g., engineers, support staff).

Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to ensure systems are secure and compliant.

Participate in on-call rotations and support operational readiness.

Consider future maintenance, operability, and support implications when implementing solutions.

Participate in retrospectives to identify opportunities to improve platform scalability and supportability.

The ideal candidate has :

2+ years of experience working with public cloud platforms (AWS and GCP preferred) in a professional setting.

Professional experience using Terraform, CI / CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions), and scripting languages (Python) to deploy, maintain, and support cloud infrastructure.

Basic understanding of networking, IAM, cloud observability, and common cloud services such as AWS VPC, EC2, S3, SNS, SQS, and Lambda.

Hands-on experience deploying and managing Kubernetes (EKS, GKE) + GitOps (Argo CD)

Experience with Hashicorp Vault

Familiarity with Git & common workflows

Growth mindset and interest in continuous learning

Strong collaboration and communication skills

You’ll really stand out with :

Deep understanding of building complex cloud infrastructure using Terraform

Strong focus on security best practices (cloud IAM, least privilege, encryption)

Experience with multi-cloud environments (AWS + GCP)

Experience building and managing CI / CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

Familiarity with cloud observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK, Cloudwatch)

Experience with data streaming technologies such as Kafka

A track record of leading projects end-to-end, from design through delivery and operations.

Experience designing for scalability, resilience, and operability in complex cloud environments

Benefits and Perks

We value the total wellbeing of our people – including health, financial, personal and social wellness. We believe standard benefits like health insurance and fair pay are a given at any 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, sickdays and annual community servicedays

Flexible, hybrid work environment

Health, dental and vision benefits, including access to telemedicine and mental health services

2 : 1 401(k) match, up to 8% matchimmediately upon hire

Discounted Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Tax Savings Accounts for health, dependent and transportation

Employee referral bonus program

Volunteer opportunities to help you give back to your communities

Some of our associates’ favorite benefits and perks include :

Complimentary lunch, snacks and coffee in any Cboe office

Paid Tuition assistance and education opportunities

Generous charitable giving company match

Paid parental leave and fertility benefits

On-site gyms and discounts to other fitness centers