DevOps Intern

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.

Cboe interns work with a variety of staff across multiple departments and have the opportunity to put their skills to work in their field of interest, while learning about Exchange technology and operations through our robust Options Institute courses.

The three main foundational pillars of our internship program are: develop, educate and network. We want to ensure each of our interns receive a real-world working experience that encourages academic, professional and personal growth.

Candidates should be versatile, eager and able to work in a fast-paced, time-sensitive financial and technical environment. To be eligible for this internship, applicants must be enrolled in a university or college program and should not be scheduled to graduate before December of the internship year. Our internship program runs from June to August and you will wrap up your internship with a final presentation and retreat. Visit our student page for more information about our internship program!

The Platform team is hiring a DevOps intern.

Role Overview 

Cboe Clear U.S. (CCUS) is a regulated clearinghouse. We clear the event contracts and prediction markets listed on Cboe's exchanges, and we are building toward tokenized collateral, 24x7 operation, and the infrastructure that carries traditional finance onto DeFi rails. 

CCUS Software Engineering is a high trust environment. Failure leads to inquiry rather than blame. Working across team boundaries is expected rather than tolerated. We solve the problem, then we write the code. Design documents and architecture decision records come first. The engineers we value most close their feedback loop. They write tests, and they instrument what they ship so it fails fast, explains itself in production, leaves an audit trail and rolls back cleanly. 

The DevEx Engineer builds the pipelines, tooling and observability every other engineer here depends on. You would be one of the first engineers on a new developer experience team, which means you help choose the tooling and set the standards rather than arrive after those decisions are made. That scope is unusual for an individual contributor role and it is the strongest reason to take this job. 

Your responsibilities will be: 

• Building and maintaining our CI pipelines in GitHub Actions, and integrating them with the platform team's deployment tooling. 
• Instrumenting those pipelines to produce real metrics on our software delivery lifecycle. 

• Wiring observability into our microservices so engineers can diagnose behavior in production rather than reproduce it locally, including logging, tracing and retention. 

• Defining service level objectives for the services this team provides, and holding them to an error budget. 

• Making the path to production push button and reversible, so releases and rollbacks are routine, automated and low risk. 

• Creating tooling that measurably improves how quickly and safely other engineers ship. 

• Deploying and operating containerized services on Kubernetes. 

• Managing infrastructure as code and keeping environments consistent and reproducible. 

• Participating in incident response and turning findings into durable fixes rather than repeat tickets. 

• Contributing to disaster recovery testing and the validation of recovery objectives. 

• Documenting decisions in architecture decision records so choices stay visible to other teams. 

Required: 

• Supporting developer experience across the delivery lifecycle, from build and test through deployment and observability 

• Experience building and operating production application services, in Java or a comparable language, before moving into developer tooling 

• Instrumenting services and pipelines for observability, including the metrics, logs and traces that make runtime behavior visible 

• Defining service level objectives and running to an error budget, with alerting that reflects user impact rather than machine noise 

• Reducing deployment pain through automation, so changes reach production on a repeatable path with a low change failure rate and fast time to restore service 

• A bias toward automating repeated work permanently rather than performing it twice 

• Strong Linux fundamentals and comfort operating containerized services on Kubernetes, Nomad or similar orchestrators 

Preferred: 

• Proficiency in Python, Terraform and YAML, which is what most of this work is actually written in 

• Container runtimes such as Docker or Podman 

• GitOps deployment workflows 

• Building CI pipelines and integrating them with deployment tooling you did not write 

• Shell scripting and comfort automating around tools that lack an API 

• Incident response and disaster recovery testing 

• Financial markets infrastructure or other regulated, latency-sensitive systems 

Nice to have: 

• Cloud platforms including AWS, Azure or GCP 

• AI-assisted development tooling 

• Working SQL and comfort with PostgreSQL 

• Experience standing up a platform function from scratch 

Benefits and Perks

• Competitive compensation
• 2:1 401(k) match, up to 8% match immediately upon hire.

Some of our employees’ favorite benefits and perks include:

• Daily complimentary in-office lunch from local restaurants
• Endless free coffee and snacks to fuel your workday
• Monthly in office networking events and happy hours
• Associate Resource Groups (ARGs) and affinity groups for support and community building

More About Cboe Global Markets

We’re reimagining the future of the workplace by focusing on what matters most, our people.  Our journey is an inclusive one. We’re investing deeply in leadership programs and career development initiatives that ensure everyone has an equal chance to succeed. We celebrate the diversity in our communities, inside and out, and welcome new perspectives with equity, inclusion and belonging.

We work with purpose, solving problems with ingenuity, collaboration, and a lot  of passion. We’re an engaged and excited team connecting markets across borders and embracing growth in all its forms to achieve incredible outcomes.

Learn more about life at Cboe on our website, LinkedIn, and our student page for more information about our internship program!

Equal Employment Opportunity

We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer - and celebrate our employees’ 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.

Our pay range for interns is determined by function and education level. The national new hire base pay range for this job in the United States is $22.00 - $42.00 per hour.  This range represents the minimum and maximum base pay target for new hires working in the position full time.     

Within the range, individual pay is determined by years of education completed. In addition to base pay, eligibility for our total rewards program may include benefits such as 401 (k) with a generous company match and paid sick time. Your recruiter will provide more details about the total compensation package during the hiring process

Any communication from Cboe regarding this position will only come from a Cboe recruiter who has a @cboe.com email or via LinkedIn Recruiter. Cboe does not use any otherthird party communication tools for recruiting purposes.