Principal Enterprise Systems Engineer
Cboe Global Markets · Kansas City, MO
$148,750–$192,500from the description
Jul 13, 2026
Kansas City, MO
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
Senior level · 10+ years · Kansas City, MO-KS · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
“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 25 people in the Kansas City, MO-KS area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (network and computer systems administrators). range 5–40
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 $94,003 (middle half $76,700–$115,250). 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 (6)
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call. The role is titled 'Principal Enterprise Systems Engineer' and centers on architecting and operating enterprise infrastructure (Windows Server, Active Directory, VMware, Microsoft 365, Azure) — work that maps most naturally to 15-1244 (Network and Computer Systems Administrators). However, the JD also requires hands-on IaC authoring (Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell at scale) and building AI agent pipelines, which pulls toward 15-1252 (Software Developers). 15-1244 was chosen as primary because the dominant day-to-day work is operating and governing enterprise infrastructure, not shipping application software.
The role is advertised as 'Principal' but the actual scope — owning enterprise infrastructure strategy for one site/team, mentoring engineers, and representing the team in executive forums — is consistent with a Senior-level band. Genuine Principal/Distinguished roles typically carry org-wide or industry-wide technical authority; this posting does not clearly demonstrate that scope.
Rubrik is listed under the requirements section as an example tool for disaster recovery/high-availability architectures ('using tools such as Rubrik'). The 'such as' qualifier means the specific tool is interchangeable, but DR/HA platform experience is a hard gate; Rubrik is named as the primary example with no other alternatives explicitly listed.
AI-assisted engineering workflows and LLM agent pipelines are described as 'strongly preferred' in the requirements section, so they are treated as preferred rather than hard gates. GitHub Copilot and Claude Code are listed as interchangeable examples of AI coding assistants.
The role requires four days per week in the Overland Park, KS office — it is not remote-eligible.
No degree requirement is stated anywhere in the posting.
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