Infrastructure and Connectivity - Cloud Engineer - Holborn

Whitbread - Head Office; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading hospitality company is seeking a knowledgeable Cloud Engineer to join their team in Holborn, London. The role involves designing and managing scalable cloud infrastructure using Azure, Terraform, and Kubernetes. Candidates should possess strong cloud development skills and have extensive experience with networking and infrastructure as code. This position offers hybrid working options and includes a competitive salary alongside great employee benefits, fostering a collaborative technology environment.

Benefits

Individual & Family BUPA healthcare

10% matched pension

Up to 60% discount on Premier Inn stays

Annual Incentive of up to 20% Bonus

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and manage cloud infrastructure across Azure using infrastructure as code.
• Ensure infrastructure aligns with the Well-Architected Framework.
• Operate and manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS).

Skills

Azure cloud services

Kubernetes

Terraform

Infrastructure as code

Networking

Job description

Infrastructure and Connectivity - Cloud Engineer - Holborn

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.

Key Details

• 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

• Healthcar e : 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.