Cloud Engineer

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.