We are looking for a Staff Network Engineer to join our global team in helping to transform connectivity services across CME Group. The role is to help maintain and deliver global on-premise and cloud-based network services - design, implement, maintain (upgrades/patching), improvement and future roadmap across a wide range of network technologies and vendors. The team work closely with technology and business stakeholders to ensure one of the largest exchange network infrastructures in the world is highly available, resilient, secure and reliable.
Responsibilities
Ensure network security, availability and reliability
Plan, execute, audit and document changes to the environment
Provide technical authority and support for a wide range of network platforms
Engage in complex technical troubleshooting and fault resolution
Respond to NOCC escalations, including on-call rotation
Implement new initiatives and expansion of existing network infrastructure
Support and implement application and service migrations to cloud
Manage project work and deliver effective platform life-cycle management
Identify and help deliver automation opportunities
Collaborate to deliver global CME technology and business initiatives
What we are looking for ...
Required:
Proficiency in configuring and managing diverse network platforms
Strong understanding and evidence of implementing effective network security
Technical experience: Cisco/Arista/Juniper routing and switching
Technical experience: BGP/OSPF/PIM/IGMP protocols
Technical experience: enterprise firewalls
Technical experience: supporting cloud implementation / migration
Technical experience: provisioning, management and troubleshooting in GCP
Technical experience: DevOps/IaC - Terraform preferred
Technical experience: loadbalancing technologies - LTM and GTM
Technical experience: network automation and orchestration
Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with keen attention to detail
Excellent communication skills - verbal and written
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
Desired:
Technical experience: scripting and automation using Python
Technical experience: management & deployment of Palo Alto and Fortigate firewalls
Technical experience: deploying and maintaining SDWAN and overlay technologies
Technical experience: DevOps using Ansible and Jenkins
Technical experience: enterprise wireless support
Relevant network certifications, eg: CCNP, CCIE, NSE, PCNSE
Relevant cloud certifications - Google preferred (PCNE, PCSE)
CME Group: Where Futures are Made
CME Group is the world’s leading derivatives marketplace. But who we are goes deeper than that. Here, you can impact markets worldwide. Transform industries. And build a career by shaping tomorrow. We invest in your success and you own it – all while working alongside a team of leading experts who inspire you in ways big and small. Problem solvers, difference makers, trailblazers. Those are our people. And we’re looking for more.
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Skills Required
- Proficiency in configuring and managing diverse network platforms
- Strong understanding of implementing effective network security
- Technical experience: Cisco/Arista/Juniper routing and switching
- Technical experience: BGP/OSPF/PIM/IGMP protocols
- Technical experience: enterprise firewalls
- Technical experience: supporting cloud implementation / migration
- Technical experience: provisioning, management and troubleshooting in GCP
- Technical experience: DevOps/IaC - Terraform preferred
- Technical experience: loadbalancing technologies - LTM and GTM
- Technical experience: network automation and orchestration
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
CME Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about CME Group and has not been reviewed or approved by CME Group.
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Retirement Support — U.S. offerings include both a 401(k) and a company-funded cash-balance pension, strengthening long-term financial security. This dual-track structure is highlighted as a notable differentiator among private employers.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO and holiday schedules are described as generous, with ample time off and carryover commonly highlighted. This breadth of leave meaningfully enhances perceived total rewards.
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Flexible Benefits — A flexible, hybrid work model applies to many roles, increasing day-to-day usability of the package. Flexibility is framed as a standard feature rather than an exception.
CME Group Insights
What We Do
As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers together through its CME Globex® electronic trading platform and its trading facilities in New York and Chicago. CME Group also operates CME Clearing, one of the world’s leading central counterparty clearing provider in the world, which offers clearing and settlement services for exchange-traded contracts, as well as for over-the-counter derivatives transactions through CME ClearPort®. These products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk in both listed and over-the-counter derivatives markets.
