Hosting and Network Lead - Banking - £600 - £850 P - 12 Month Contract

Job title: Hosting & Network Lead Client: Banking Rate: £600-£850 p/d Contract Length: 12 Months / Inside IR35 Location: London Skills: Hosting, AWS, Azure, GCP, Networking, BGP, OSPF, Low Latency, Python, Ansible The role: Our banking client is looking for a Hosting & Network Lead to design and lead secure, resilient hosting and connectivity platforms across enterprise, cloud, internet-facing and market-data environments. Key Responsibilities

• Lead architecture across on-premise data centres, colocation, hybrid and multicloud environments.
• Design secure connectivity across AWS, Azure, GCP and Oracle Cloud, including Direct Connect, ExpressRoute and equivalent services.
• Architect internet-facing environments covering DMZ, ingress/egress, load balancing, DNS, CDN and secure access.
• Design and optimise low-latency market data platforms, including multicast/unicast, exchange connectivity and cross-connects.
• Support payment and regulated transactional platforms, focusing on resilience, segmentation, encryption and compliance.
• Lead network and hosting transformation, cloud adoption, data-centre modernisation and platform migrations.
• Provide technical leadership during high-severity incidents and drive performance, capacity and automation improvements.
• Work with cloud providers, telcos, SaaS providers, exchanges and market-data vendors. Essential Experience
• 8–12+ years in network engineering, hosting architecture or senior/lead roles.
• Strong networking and advanced BGP, OSPF, multicast and high-availability experience.
• Proven multicloud experience across AWS, Azure, GCP and/or Oracle Cloud.
• Experience with market data, payment systems or regulated financial environments.
• Strong understanding of low-latency networking and resilient architecture.
• Automation experience using Python, Ansible and/or Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Strong stakeholder management and architectural governance skills. Desirable
• Microsoft 365 and infrastructure SaaS connectivity.
• Zero Trust, segmentation and secure internet architecture.
• Experience with Bloomberg, Reuters or exchange connectivity.
• Experience leading major network/hosting transformation programmes.