Infrastructure Architect

Salary: Competitive Salary

Location: Head Office – London, Head Office – Newcastle or remote in the UK    

Duration: Permanent

The Labour Party is looking to recruit an Infrastructure Architect. The post-holder will be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining the party’s cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability of mission-critical campaign systems. Be part of strategic decision-making for infrastructure that supports 10,000s of daily users and handles peak election-day demands.

The successful candidate will have:

  • Proven experience managing large-scale production environments that have successfully supported thousands of daily users
  • Expert-level understanding of cloud platforms, particularly AWS services and architecture patterns, with strong knowledge of VPCs, RDS, and ElastiCache
  • Strong architectural design and systems thinking capabilities, with proven ability to balance technical requirements with business needs
  • Experience contributing to strategic technical decision-making processes

To apply for this post, please complete an application form and equal opportunities form and send it to [email protected] by no later than 28 February 2025. Please note applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

You must have the Right to Work in the UK to apply for this role.

We offer a variety of benefits for our employees that include;

  • 25-day annual leave (increases to 30 days after 10 years’ service), pro-rated for part time staff
  • Additional 5 days of leave for the office closure period over Christmas and New Year
  • All UK bank holidays
  • Up to 10 days of annual leave can be carried over into 2025
  • Opportunity to join a CARE (Career Averaged Revalued Earnings) benefit scheme
  • Flexible working opportunities
  • Enhanced Maternity/Paternity/Adoption and Shared Parental Leave
  • Staff Equality Networks and support: Women’s, BAME, Disability & LGBTQ+
  • Employee assistance programme
  • Cycle to work scheme (now including electric bikes)
  • Season ticket loan
  • Free eye test and money towards VDU use glasses

The Labour Party values equality and diversity, and welcomes applications from candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership, or pregnancy and maternity.