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Large City investment bank requires a Fidessa Fix Protocol specialist who will be responsible for monitoring and maintaining the trading system applications and Back Office staging and settlement systems used by banks global markets in a 24/7 environment working a 07:00 shift each day, at times phone support can be required off the specialist out-side normal shift hours. Supporting scheduling software responsible for trading applications (ie Autosys). Develop transaction audit trails. Perform Scripting, monitor system performance and maintain the integrity of the production system environments. Support the equities trading division to ensure maximum system uptime of Front Office trading applications (Fidessa, Lattice, FIX links) and Back Office staging/settlement (Inhouse) systems. Utilizing monitoring tools to pro-actively check system resources and to address/troubleshoot system issues. Financial business knowledge. 3+ year’s experience working with Microsoft Windows environment. 3+ year’s system support experience, preferably in the financial industry. 2+ year’s Real Time trade application support. A solid understanding of Unix-based operating systems across multiple hardware platforms, knowledge of networking in a distributed environment and Client Server application skills is required and must be versatile in Unix, Perl, TCP/IP, TCL/TK, Shell Scripting, Oracle, Sybase and SQL Server. Knowledge of Back Office settlements software and procedures advantageous.