Whitbread, the owner of Premier Inn and some of the UK’s favourite restaurants,processes nearly £2 billion in transactions each year and employs around 40,000people. Driving innovatio...
Whitbread, the owner of Premier Inn and some of the UK’s favourite restaurants,
processes nearly £2 billion in transactions each year and employs around 40,000
people.
Driving innovation, monitor system health, resolve performance issues, and optimize technology investments. By leveraging technical expertise, collaboration, and emerging technologies that will deliver high-quality solutions that align with strategic goals and enable business success.
Role: Software Engineer – Tooling Admin
Package: Starting From £60,000 + 30% company performance bonus.
Contract Type: Full-Time and Permanent
Location: Holborn, London and a hybrid way of working with a minimum of 3 days a week in the 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
Check out all our benefits here: https://www.whitbreadcareers.com/about-us/benefits/
What you’ll be doing:
As Software Engineer – Tooling role, you are responsible for the management, configuration, and optimization of tools and systems used by engineering teams. As an engineer, focus is on ensuring that tools for development, integration, testing, deployment, and monitoring are effectively implemented and maintained to support the engineering workflow.
Core responsibilities include Tool Management & Configuration, Access & Permissions Management, Monitoring and Performance Optimisation of various tools required for Digital Engineering.
What you’ll need:
- Proven experience in managing software engineering tools, system administration or DevOps-related roles.
- Proficiency in managing and configuring engineering tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, Jira, Confluence, SonarQube, Docker, CI/CD pipelines)
- Expertise in managing / maintenance, access management of tools - Jenkins, GitHub, Docker Hub, postman, unleash, Apollo on Kubernetes environment
- Experience in monitoring the health and performance of engineering tools, ensuring their reliability and efficiency.
- Experience with automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet for tool deployment and configuration management.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and managing tools for cloud services (e.g., AWS Lambda, EC2, Kubernetes).
- Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack for tracking tool performance.
- Knowledge of security best practices in managing tool configurations, particularly for CI/CD pipelines, version control, and cloud infrastructure.
- Ability to diagnose and resolve issues related to integration, performance, or configuration of engineering tools
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.
We believe that everyone is unique and there should be no barriers to entry and no limits to ambition. We are committed to being an inclusive organisation that values diversity and welcomes your application whatever your background or situation.
Under-represented groups such as women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities & members of the LGBTQIA+ community (those who identify as lesbian, gay, bi, trans and non-binary or those who use a different LGBTQIA+ term), are strongly encouraged to build a career with us. Speak to us about workplace adjustments, part-time and flexible working. Where possible we will support this.
Job ref: 58667-4492
Advertised: 31 Mar 2025
