Director, Network Automation & Tooling

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 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.

To support strong partnership and team connection, this role follows a four day in office work model.

Location Overview Cboe HQ is located in the historic Old Post Office district, it’s a landmark that blends classic architecture with modern amenities. The building features expansive spaces with high ceilings and large windows, offering an abundance of natural light and panoramic views of the city skyline and the Chicago River.

With its prime location in the heart of downtown, the OPO Building provides easy access to major transportation hubs, including Union Station and multiple CTA lines, making it convenient for commuters. The building is home to a variety of amenities, including restaurants, a fitness center, and collaborative work spaces, creating a vibrant and dynamic work environment in one of Chicago's most iconic areas.

Role Overview Cboe's infrastructure footprint — and the telemetry stream it produces — is growing faster than our headcount can follow. We're hiring the leader who will close that gap with agents and intelligent automation, not more dashboards and runbooks. The Director, Network Automation & Tooling owns the strategy, architecture, and team behind the platform that lets Cboe's Operations and Engineering organizations operate at 10x their current capacity: a centralized Docker/Kubernetes backend hosting a growing fleet of AI agents, built and continuously extended with agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, that automate infrastructure operations across network, security, and telemetry domains.

The intelligence layer is central to that mission. This team drives telemetry from across Cboe's global footprint — SNMP, gNMI, syslog, and API-based sources — into our Prometheus and Grafana observability platform, then builds on top of it: threshold alerting and trend analysis, and well beyond them, machine learning and agentic analysis that surface anomalies before they become incidents, correlate signals across domains, and sharpen how Operations and Engineering handle today's events and plan tomorrow's capacity.

This is not a traditional infrastructure management role. It demands current technical credibility in container orchestration and infrastructure automation at scale, genuine fluency in emerging agentic AI patterns, and the leadership skill to guide subject matter experts across three domains as they extend an existing agent framework into Cboe's next-generation automation system. Agentic infrastructure engineering is being defined right now, and this leader will help define it at Cboe — setting the vision for how our network adapts to future demand, and carrying that thinking to the network and security teams who build on it and to associates across the firm.

It's also hands-on. The Director stays close enough to the technology to…