Network Engineer - Operations at Chicago Board Options Exchange
Kansas City, MO
$85,000
Jun 28, 2026
Kansas City, MO
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
Mid level · 2+ years · Kansas City, MO-KS · Full-time
Pay in the description: $85,000–$121,000
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 120 people in the Kansas City, MO-KS area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (network and computer systems administrators). range 50–180
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $91,980 (middle half $75,050–$112,770). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role title is 'Network Engineer - Operations' with no seniority level in the title, so advertised seniority is Unspecified. The minimum experience gate is 2+ years, which supports a Mid-level classification despite the broad scope described.
Cisco and Arista are listed as interchangeable options ('Cisco, Arista, and/or Palo Alto') in the required qualifications; Palo Alto is also named in the same phrase but represents a distinct technology category (firewall vs. routing/switching), so it is emitted separately.
BGP, OSPF, MPLS, multicast, and HSRP appear in the responsibilities section as context for the environment rather than in a formal requirements block. However, they are core to the troubleshooting duties explicitly described as required work; BGP, OSPF, and MPLS are retained as hard gates given the role's clear dependency on them. Multicast and HSRP are omitted as they are more incidental stack detail.
Scripting and API-driven automation are listed under Minimum Qualifications but name no specific language or framework, so 'scripting' is emitted as a generic required skill. No specific language (Python, Bash, etc.) is named.
AWS, Grafana, and Corvil all appear under Preferred Qualifications and are marked accordingly.
The alt SOC (15-1252 Software Developers) is noted because the role explicitly emphasizes building automation, API-driven workflows, and observability tooling — a meaningful software-development component — but the primary day-to-day work is network operations and incident response, so 15-1244 is the primary classification.
The role requires four days per week in the Overland Park, KS office and is not eligible for remote work.
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