Company: Comgent
Location: London
Posted: April 21st, 2026
Contract | Comgent | United Kingdom
Posted On 04/18/2026
Standard Business working Hours Yes
Work Experience 8-10
City London
State/Province City of London
N/A
We are committed to building an inclusive workplace and encourage applications from women and other under-represented groups in tech. All qualified candidates are welcome.
Start date: May/ June 2026
Location: London, UK (Hybrid — minimum 2 days per week in office)
Reports to Head of Data Centre and Network Services.
A highly skilled Senior Network Hosting Architect with extensive experience designing, delivering, and optimising large-scale enterprise, internet-facing, cloud, and market-data-driven hosting environments.
This role is accountable for shaping end-to-end hosting network architectures supporting internal enterprise workloads, external internet services, regulated payment platforms, and real‑time market data distribution, ensuring resilience, security, scalability, and operational excellence in performance‑critical and regulated environments.
The ideal candidate is proactive, able to be detail‑orientated when required, and comfortable operating in regulated environments.
Lead the architecture of secure, scalable, and resilient network hosting platforms across:
Define hosting strategies supporting market data platforms, payment systems, enterprise applications, and customer‑facing internet services.
Develop multi‑year network hosting roadmaps aligned to business growth, regulatory expectations, and technology evolution.
Act as the senior technical authority for complex hosting, connectivity, and L2–L7 network challenges across enterprise, internet, and SaaS‑integrated environments.
Own architectural governance for market data, payment platform, and cloud hosting designs, ensuring compliance with internal standards and external regulation.
Provide design assurance for secure inbound/outbound internet connectivity, DDoS‑protected architectures, and Zero Trust access models.
Architect and operate cloud networking across:
Design resilient connectivity models for Microsoft 365 and key infrastructure SaaS services, including identity‑aware routing, secure egress, and performance optimisation.
Define internet hosting patterns covering DMZs, ingress/egress, load balancing, DNS, CDN integration, and secure access.
Architect, optimise, and support market data hosting environments including:
Design deterministic, high‑availability network paths for latency‑sensitive trading and analytics workloads.
Partner with vendors and internal platform teams to ensure performance, resilience, and change control for market data services.
Design hosting network architectures for payment systems and transactional platforms, ensuring:
Support connectivity to payment gateways, clearing systems, and third‑party providers, including resilience testing and failure scenarios.
Lead major hosting and network transformation initiatives, including:
Drive structured planning, risk management, stakeholder coordination, and controlled delivery.
Champion continuous optimisation across performance, capacity, routing efficiency, internet ingress/egress, and cloud cost efficiency.
Lead resolution of high‑severity incidents across enterprise, market data, payment, and internet‑facing platforms.
Implement automation, observability, and tooling using Infrastructure‑as‑Code and API‑driven platforms.
Act as the technical interface with:
Review and influence technical solutions, SLAs, contracts, and support models.
Provide clear architectural updates and risk assessments to senior stakeholders.
Embed Zero Trust, segmentation, encryption, and secure connectivity across hosting platforms.
Ensure internet‑facing, cloud, market data, and payment environments meet regulatory, audit, and operational resilience standards.
Maintain high‑quality architecture artefacts, runbooks, and audit evidence.