Fidessa Application Support Specialist

***NO C2C***W-2 ONLY***HYBRID - need to be local to NYC***

Our Direct Client is seeking an Fidessa Application Support Specialist in NYC for a 6 month contract.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the Fidessa application used by traders, sales and middle office on the trading floor.
• Responsibility includes software releases, configuration, monitoring and support of all production system components and infrastructure.
• Ensure system availability, performance, capacity, and monitoring through proper response to incidents, events and problems.
• Troubleshoot technical or functional issues in a complex financial environment to provide timely resolution, with various applications and platforms that are global.
• Position being on the main trading floor, extensive interaction is expected with traders, sales, developers and quants.
• Gaining in-depth exposure to both the business and technology aspects of equity derivatives business.
• Bring a passion to stay on top of DevOps trends, experiment with and learn new CD technologies.

• Fundamental understanding of Ion s Fidessa application
• Experience with monitoring systems such as Prometheus & Grafana
• Direct server side Fidessa experience on an enterprise system

• Comfortable working on UNIX / Linux (Sysadmin, Shell Scripting, etc.) and Windows environments.
• Experience working with relational databases, excellent SQL skills.
• Understanding of Python and experience trouble-shooting issues

• Knowledge of FIX and other order/rfq/trading protocols.
• Sybase Databases
• Task Schedulers (Autosys)
• Strong with in scripting language (Shell,TCL, Perl, Python, etc.)
• Understanding of the Agile and Continuous delivery.
• Networking Knowledge
• Experience with one or more: Source control management systems (GIT or Subversion);
• Knowledge on Capital Market and Investment Banking Activities.
• Knowledge of Fidessa order management system