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We providethe financialinfrastructure that powers the global economy. As a leading provider of market infrastructure and tradable products,Cboedeliverscutting-edgetrading, clearing and investment solutions to market participants around the world.\nWe’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.\nTo support strong partnership and team connection, this role follows a four day in office work model.\nRole Overview\nThe Sr. Manager of Network Engineering is a senior technical leader responsible for leading a high-performing network engineering team that designs, builds, and operates the low-latency infrastructure supporting Cboe’s global financial exchange platforms. This role sits at the intersection of hands-on technical depth and strategic execution, ensuring the network consistently meets the performance, reliability, and determinism required for global markets.\nCboe’s network directly underpins market integrity and fairness, requiring expert-level understanding of low-latency architecture, routing design, and the practical limitations of network hardware and software platforms. This is not a generalist leadership role-technical credibility and the ability to guide engineers through complex, research-driven design and implementation work is essential. The Sr. Manager is expected to operate independently, own outcomes end-to-end, and align engineering efforts to key business and market initiatives with a strong “make it happen” mindset.\nThe team is responsible for a broad and evolving network footprint, including low-latency trading infrastructure, global WAN/MPLS, hybrid cloud connectivity, remote office networking, network authentication, packet capture and timestamping systems, and automation tooling. The Sr. Manager works closely with Network Operations and Security teams to provide escalation support, drive resolution of complex issues, and ensure seamless collaboration across infrastructure domains.\nSuccess in this role requires the ability to lead in a fast-paced, highly dynamic environment with shifting priorities and parallel workstreams. The Sr. Manager serves as a technical authority, mentor, and decision-maker-setting direction, establishing best practices, and driving execution across both strategic projects and day-to-day operations. Strong communication skills are critical, including the ability to clearly articulate technical risks, trade-offs, and priorities to senior leadership while maintaining alignment across engineering teams.\nYour responsibilities will be:\nLead, mentor, and develop a high-performing network engineering team, fostering technical excellence, strong accountability, and disciplined engineering practices across a global, multi-region environment\nDrive strategic network initiatives from concept through execution, including pre-implementation research, design validation, vendor evaluation, and production deployment, ensuring high-quality delivery and strong execution discipline\nOwn the architecture and long-term evolution of low-latency trading network infrastructure, guiding design decisions around topology, routing, performance optimization, and scalability in environments where latency and determinism are critical\nPartner closely with senior technical contributors, including Principal Engineers, to lead complex design efforts, validate architectural decisions, and raise the overall technical bar of the organization\nManage a dynamic project portfolio, continuously reprioritizing work based on business needs, market events, and operational risk while maintaining alignment to key strategic initiatives\nCollaborate across infrastructure, security, cloud, and application teams to deliver integrated solutions, ensuring reliable, secure, and high-performance connectivity across all environments\nEstablish and enforce strong operational practices, including structured change management, validation procedures, incident response expectations, and post-implementation review processes\nSupport and influence network automation strategy, encouraging scalable, maintainable approaches using Python and API-driven tooling to improve efficiency and reduce operational friction\nOversee vendor relationships and hardware/software evaluation efforts, including participation in RFPs, proof-of-concept testing, and critical design reviews, ensuring informed technology decisions\nServe as a senior escalation point for complex network issues, leading high-impact troubleshooting efforts and ensuring timely resolution across engineering and operations teams\nContribute to budgeting and capacity planning for network infrastructure, aligning investments with performance requirements and business growth\nDefine and maintain engineering standards, architecture documentation, and technical processes, including contributions to regulatory-facing documentation where required\nOperate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment, balancing long-term architectural direction with immediate operational priorities and driving a strong “make it happen” execution mindset\nThe ideal candidate has\n10+ years of progressive network engineering experience in low-latency, mission-critical environments, with at least 3 years in a leadership or management capacity\nDeep expertise in low-latency network design and optimization, with a strong understanding of switching behavior, buffering, and techniques required to achieve deterministic performance at scale\nAdvanced knowledge of Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols, including BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VXLAN, multicast (PIM-SM), and resilient traffic engineering across global networks\nProven ability to design, scale, and operate complex, highly available network infrastructure in environments where performance and reliability are critical to the business\nStrong track record of leading and developing engineering teams, including mentoring senior engineers, driving technical standards, and building a high-performance, accountable culture\nExperience leading large, complex projects from research and design through implementation, with disciplined execution and strong operational rigor\nHands-on experience with network automation using Python and API-driven approaches to improve efficiency, consistency, and scalability\nSolid understanding of network security principles, including segmentation, access control, and secure design practices within enterprise and trading network environments\nExperience managing competing priorities in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, with the ability to align engineering work to business needs and drive execution under pressure\nStrong communication and leadership presence, with the ability to clearly articulate technical strategy, risks, and trade-offs to both engineering teams and senior leadership\nExperience working with distributed teams and partnering across infrastructure, security, and application organizations\nFamiliarity with contributing to architecture standards, technical documentation, and, where applicable, materials supporting regulatory or audit requirements\nPreferred certifications:\nCisco CCIE (Routing & Switching or Data Center) or equivalent expert-level experience\nArista, Juniper, or other advanced networking certifications\nBenefits and Perks\nWe value the total wellbeing of our people - including health, financial,personaland social wellness. We believe standard benefits like health insurance and fair pay aregivenatany organization. Still, you shouldknow whatwe offer:\nMedical Coverage\n\nPrescription Drug Coverage\n\nAdditional Medical Benefit\n\nDental Coverage\n\nVision Coverage\n\n401K or Pension CompanyMatch\n\nSpending Accounts\n\nLife and AD&D Insurance\n\nRetirement Savings Plan\n\nEmployee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)\n\nVoluntary & Additional Benefits\n\nPaid Time Off\n\nMore AboutCboeGlobal Markets\nWe’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.\nWe 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.\nLearn more about life atCboeonour website andLinkedIn.\nEqual Employment Opportunity\nWe're proud 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.\nThis 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.\nSalary Ranges (applicable for US locations only)\nAt Cboe, we are committed to providing a competitive, transparent, and market-informed total rewards program. The anticipated base salary range for this role is $144,500-$187,000 in Kansas, $158,950-$205,700 in Chicago, and $180,625-$233,750 in New York, with actual compensation determined by job-related factors such as skills, relevant experience, education, internal alignment, and location.This role may also be eligible for annual incentive compensation and, where applicable, participation in Cboe's long-term equity programs.\nAdditional information about Cboe's total rewards program, including benefits and other compensation components, can be found here: Total Rewards at CBOE.\nAny communication from Cboe regarding this position will only come from a Cboe recruiter who has a @cboe.com email or via LinkedIn Recruiter. 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