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BGC Tech: Production Support Analyst, Market Ops Bgc Partners
New York, NY

BGC Partners is a brokerage company servicing the wholesale financial and real estate markets.

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Job Description

Company Overview:

BGC Partners (http://www.bgcpartners.com/):

Our Financial Services business provides a full range of trade execution and broker-dealer services. The benefit of BGC's integrated platform is that it gives customers flexibility and choice in price discovery, execution and processing of their transactions, through voice, hybrid, or fully electronic brokerage options. In addition, our BGC Trader and BGC Market Data platforms offer financial technology solutions, market data and analytics related to financial instruments and markets.

Job Description:

BGC Partners is seeking a Production Support Analyst to join the Market Operations team. The position is supporting an Equities Algorithmic Trading platform and is a hybrid market/trading operations L1 and L2 application support role.

Responsibilities:

* Monitoring and reacting to trade failures (interacting with external client where necessary)
* Technical Troubleshooting (Analyzing application log files, FIX logs, environmental issues, client connectivity issues)
* Scheduled Job support, monitoring, and configuration
* Environmental monitoring/alerting configuration (servers, application components, market data)

Skills Required:

* Unix experience and knowledge a must
* Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
* Knowledge of FIX protocol
* Experience with external connectivity
* DB/SQL a plus
* Equities knowledge preferred