About this role
Here at Whitbread, we are looking for a hands-on and experienced Cloud Engineer – DevOps (Azure) to join our platform team, focused on building and managing scalable, secure, and automated infrastructure across a multi-cloud environment.
This role is ideal for someone with deep experience in cloud development, Kubernetes, and Terraform, who enjoys enabling application teams through reliable and self-service platform tooling.
Role: Cloud Engineer
Salary: £80,000 depending on experience
Contract Type: Full time, Permanent
Location: Holborn, London (Hybrid, 3 days per week in office)
Why You’ll Love It Here
- Healthcare: Individual & Family BUPA healthcare
- 10% matched pension
- Discounts: Up to 60% discount on Premier Inn stays and 25% discount on our Restaurant brand
- Annual Incentive of up to 20% Bonus
Check out all our benefits here: https://www.whitbreadcareers.com/about-us/benefits/
What you’ll be doing:
As a Cloud Engineer within our platform team, you will design, build, and manage cloud infrastructure across Azure using infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Bicep).
You will be responsible for ensuring infrastructure aligns with the Well-Architected Framework (Azure), incorporating best practices for reliability, security, cost-efficiency, and performance. Alongside the above, you will operate and manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS), including upgrades, configuration, networking, and security as well as host and maintain internal developer tooling and shared services within Kubernetes or cloud-native environments.
What you’ll need:
- Must have strong hands-on experience with Azure cloud services, infrastructure, and networking.
- Extensive experience of Cloud Development
- Proficiency with writing Terraform from scratch
- Expertise in Kubernetes (EKS, AKS), including deployment management, RBAC, networking, and autoscaling.
- Extensive experience coding Terraform and Kubernetes as opposed to maintaining.
Be part of our Technology Team at Whitbread
Through collaboration, passion and hiring the smartest minds, our Technology team builds products and services that are used by 38,000 of us at Whitbread and millions of guests. Everything from an eCommerce website that handles £2 billion in transactions per year, applications that are scalable across our 1,200 hotel and restaurants, devices that enable our teams and guests to have a seamless experience, all whilst keeping data secure. Together we’re building the hotel of the future.
Other facts
About Whitbread
Whitbread PLC is the owner of the UK’s favourite hotel chain, Premier Inn, as well as restaurant brands, Beefeater, Brewers Fayre, Table Table, Bar + Block and Cookhouse and Pub.
Whitbread employs more than 35,000 people in more than 1,200 Premier Inn hotels and restaurants across the UK and Germany, serving over five million customers every month.
At Whitbread we are committed to being a force for good in the communities in which we operate. Our Sustainability programme, ‘Force for Good’ is focused on enabling people to live and work well and is built around three pillars of Opportunity, Community and Responsibility.
Whitbread PLC is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100. It is also a member of the FTSE4Good Index.
What you'll do
- As a Cloud Engineer, you will design, build, and manage cloud infrastructure across Azure using infrastructure as code. You will also operate and manage Kubernetes clusters and maintain internal developer tooling.
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