Site Reliability Engineer

Cboe Global Markets•Kansas City, MO

4d•$97,750 - $120,750•Hybrid

About The Position

At Cboe Global Markets, 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 meaningful ways to support professional and personal development while 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 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 provide employees a safe space to network, share ideas and create opportunities. 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.

Requirements

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
Degree in computer science, engineering, or similar discipline

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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

Benefits

Fair and competitive salary and incentive compensation packages with an upside for overachievement
Generous paid time off, including vacation, personal days, sick days and 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% match immediately 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
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