• Candidates should be versatile, eager and able to work in a fast-paced, time-sensitive financial and technical environment
• Currently pursuing in Bachelor’s degree or higher and should not be scheduled to graduate before December of the year in which the internship takes place
• Desire to learn about technical operations for a financial exchange
• Advanced Linux command line knowledge
• High level of proficiency in Python and SQL
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Desirable

• The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is responsible for performance tuning and capacity planning for multiple high performance, ultralow latency financial exchanges
• The SRE team also provides operational support for these exchanges to maintain system availability and optimal performance
• The SRE team works closely with Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, and Network Engineering teams to troubleshoot complex issues, to coordinate and support platform configuration updates, and to leverage new cutting-edge technologies
• The SRE intern role is a great opportunity to learn about complex software systems and financial markets
• Provide technical support to sustain resiliency and high availability of financial exchanges
• Analyzing performance metrics and optimizing the latency of the exchanges
• Collaborating with Infrastructure/Development teams for technology upgrades and migrations
• Supporting Cboe’s Incident Management process to resolve and investigate technical issues
• Driving and implementing capacity planning decisions for Operations
• Developing, testing, and maintaining automation and monitoring tools