Array of pointers: std::vector<std::shared_ptr<T>>, or std::shared_ptr T[n]?

Question

I am implementing a concurrent skip list (based on a listing in The Art of Multiprocessor Programming), and the Node class contains the following (Java-esque) code:

class Node<T> {
    ...
    final Node<T>[] next; 
    ...
    public Node(int key) {
        ...
        next = new Node[MAX_LEVEL + 1];
        ...
    }
}

In C++, this doesn't translate so well without raw pointers (which I desperately want to avoid, so I can use RAII). What are my options for the array of Node, next? I understand it is initialised in the constructor to a size of MAX_LEVEL + 1, and I'm not too sure how to do this in C++ either.

Note that the size of the array in each Node while not compile-time constant, is run-time constant as it isn't appended to/removed from, so I don't need the strictly dynamic functionality of std::vector::emplace_back().