Cboe Global Markets
Senior Cloud Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America · Senior
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~45% per draw at Level III). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$22,398 more — $141,398 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $141,398 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- 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.
- Our teams are empowered to share ideas, actively pursue them and bring on a challenge.
Responsibilities
- We're building meaningful ways to support professional and personal development while strengthening the trust we've earned as a global market leader.
- Design, deploy, and operate Kubernetes-based platforms and workloads (EKS, Cluster API), including GitOps workflows (e.g., Argo CD)
- Support and enhance CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation
- Build and maintain a globally distributed cloud infrastructure platform using Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)
- Collaborate with Cloud Platform Engineering and business unit application teams to engineer infrastructure solutions for their cloud-based applications
- Perform system and database maintenance, including application deployment, backup and restoration, patching, and upgrades
- Maintain cloud environments through incident response, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
- Participate in on-call rotations and support operational readiness
- Drive retrospectives to identify opportunities to improve platform scalability and supportability
- Lead implementation of cloud infrastructure projects from design through delivery
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience working with public cloud platforms (AWS and GCP preferred) in a professional setting.
- Strong understanding of networking, IAM, cloud observability, and common cloud services such as AWS VPC, EC2, S3, SNS, SQS, and Lambda.
Compensation
- Fair and competitive salary and incentive compensation packages with an upside for overachievement
Benefits
- Interest in continuous learning and in developing the engineers around you.
- 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
- Discounted Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Tax Savings Accounts for health, dependent and transportation
Company info
- Role Overview We are seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer for Cboe's Cloud Operations team.
- Salary Ranges (applicable for US locations only) At Cboe, we are committed to providing a competitive, transparent, and market‑informed total rewards program.
Equal opportunity
- We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer - and celebrate our associates' differences, including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, and Veteran status.
- 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.
- Salary Ranges (applicable for US locations only)
Visa & Work Authorization
- This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
This listing is sourced directly from Cboe Global Markets's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.