Whitbread

About the Company

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.

Listed Jobs

Company Name

Whitbread

Job Title

Site Reliability and DevOps - Head of Site Reliability & DevOps

Job Description

Job Title: Head of Site Reliability & DevOpsContrac...

Job Title: Head of Site Reliability & DevOps

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Office based – Holborn (Hybrid working with a minimum of 3 days a week in office)

Salary: Salary from £135,000pa

Are you ready to lead the next generation of reliability, automation, and DevOps in a high-traffic e-commerce environment? As the new Head of Site Reliability and DevOps you will drive scalability, security, and performance across our digital platforms.

You’ll oversee Technology Leads for Digital Platforms and lead the Release Train function, ensuring seamless coordination of releases, platform stability, and continuous improvement.

Purpose Of The Role

Within this role you will lead the SRE & DevOps strategy to ensure 99.99% uptime for mission-critical platforms, such as booking engines, payments, and mobile apps, guaranteeing seamless user experiences and operational efficiency. By overseeing Technology Leads.

You will also drive continuous innovation, implement industry best practices, and maintain high levels of platform reliability, ensuring that all systems run smoothly and meet the highest standards of performance and availability.

What You’ll Be Doing

You will be managing the Release Train function, ensuring smooth, coordinated releases with minimal risk.
You’ll automate & optimize infrastructure, deployments, and CI/CD pipelines using Terraform, Kubernetes and GitHub Actions.
Implement robust monitoring & observability, leveraging Dynatrace, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry for real-time insights.
You will strengthen cloud security & compliance, ensuring PCI-DSS, Zero Trust, and AWS IAM best practices.
Scale platforms for peak demand, implementing auto-scaling, caching, and load

balancing for high-traffic events.

Mentor & grow a high-performing team of SREs, DevOps engineers, and platform leads.

What You’ll Need

Proven Experience in SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.
Extensive experience in leading engineering teams, including managing Technology Leads.
Experience managing large-scale e-commerce platforms with high transaction volumes. Deep expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools. Strong background in release management, coordinating complex deployments across
multiple teams.
Security-first mindset, ensuring cloud security, compliance, and DevSecOps best practices.

Benefits

Incentive Scheme up to 40%
Holidays: 25 days
Private Healthcare: Up to Family Cover
Sharesave Scheme
Pension
Privilege Card
Choice of Car or Cash Allowance (£7420pa)

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: 54312-4492

Advertised: 17 Mar 2025

London, United Kingdom

Hybrid

18-03-2025

Company Name

Whitbread

Job Title

Senior Software Engineer (Frontend)

Job Description

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.

As the new Senior Software Engineer, you will work as part of our Premier Inn digital team to solve real-world problems at scale, building REST API’s using a Microservices architecture. You will drive innovation, monitor system health, resolve performance issues, and optimize technology investments. By leveraging technical expertise, collaboration, and emerging technologies that deliver high-quality solutions that align with strategic goals and enable business success.

Role: Senior Software Engineer - Frontend
Package: £85,000 + 30% company performance bonus, plus car or car cash allowance of £5,651.00pa
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 the Senior Software Engineer – Frontend, you will lead on the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance platforms, products, and services, to ensure systems are reliable, high performing, and continuously improved to meet evolving business needs.

You will drive innovation, monitor system health, resolve performance issues, and optimize technology investments. By leveraging technical expertise, collaboration, and emerging technologies that deliver high-quality solutions that align with strategic goals and enable business success.

What you’ll need:

Expert in JavaScript/Typescript, Next JS, React or Angular. Writes clean, efficient, maintainable code, AB testing and Versioning. Drive continuous improvements. Understanding of Devops tools, CICD pipelines and cloud tech stacks (like K8s). Understand on third party integrations.
Responsive design: strong UI/UX knowledge, implements designs, ensures accessibility. Proficient in CSS, Have good experience in CSS libraries like Tailwind etc. Good expertise in Unit testing and automation testing libraries.
Performance optimisation and debugging skilled in debugging, profiling, and optimising frontend performance reducing re-renders, lazy loading, Caching strategy, fix memory leak, state managements etc.) Ability to mentor and coach.

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.

London, United Kingdom

Hybrid

31-03-2025

Company Name

Whitbread

Job Title

Senior Software Engineer - Frontend

Job Description

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. As the new ...

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.

As the new Senior Software Engineer, you will work as part of our Premier Inn digital team to solve real-world problems at scale, building REST API’s using a Microservices architecture. You will drive innovation, monitor system health, resolve performance issues, and optimize technology investments. By leveraging technical expertise, collaboration, and emerging technologies that deliver high-quality solutions that align with strategic goals and enable business success.

Role: Senior Software Engineer - Frontend

Package: £85,000 + 30% company performance bonus, plus car or car cash allowance of £5,651.00pa

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
Bonus: Up to 30% of annual salary
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 the Senior Software Engineer – Frontend, you will lead on the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance platforms, products, and services, to ensure systems are reliable, high performing, and continuously improved to meet evolving business needs.

You will drive innovation, monitor system health, resolve performance issues, and optimize technology investments. By leveraging technical expertise, collaboration, and emerging technologies that deliver high-quality solutions that align with strategic goals and enable business success.

What You’ll Need

Expert in JavaScript/Typescript, Next JS, React or Angular. Writes clean, efficient, maintainable code, AB testing and Versioning. Drive continuous improvements. Understanding of Devops tools, CICD pipelines and cloud tech stacks (like K8s). Understand on third party integrations.
Responsive design: strong UI/UX knowledge, implements designs, ensures accessibility. Proficient in CSS, Have good experience in CSS libraries like Tailwind etc. Good expertise in Unit testing and automation testing libraries.
Performance optimisation and debugging skilled in debugging, profiling, and optimising frontend performance reducing re-renders, lazy loading, Caching strategy, fix memory leak, state managements etc.) Ability to mentor and coach.

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: 58386-4492

Advertised: 31 Mar 2025

London, United Kingdom

Hybrid

31-03-2025

Company Name

Whitbread

Job Title

Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Job Description

Using technology, innovation, and working collaboratively across our teams, we’re looking to create the leading customer experience within budget hospitality to support our continued growt...

Using technology, innovation, and working collaboratively across our teams, we’re looking to create the leading customer experience within budget hospitality to support our continued growth in the UK and beyond. Your hunger for excellence and creativity will shape the future of our customer experience.

As the new Tech Lead, you will be responsible for the engineering standards, approach, and strategy for the back end technology employed across Whitbread’s Digital systems (currently EKS and other services on AWS). As well as working closely with the Head of SRE & DevOps, tech leads and wider engineering teams, you will be focusing on driving best practice and community and drawing up (or supporting others to draw up) low level designs from business requirements and architectures.

Whitbread are the owners of Premier Inn, and some of the UK’s most loved restaurants. With a website that handles nearly £3billion worth of transactions per year and a business that employees around 40,000 people, this role will offer you a genuine challenge to keep our customers and colleagues’ data secure.

Role: Technical Lead – Microservices

Salary: From £85,000 plus company performance based bonus of up to 30% and car or car allowance of £5651.00pa

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 and Family BUPA healthcare
Discounts: Up to 60% discount on Premier Inn stays and 25% discount on our Restaurant brands
Company Share save Scheme: Share in Whitbread’s continued success.

Check out all our benefits here: https://www.whitbreadcareers.com/about-us/benefits/

What You’ll Do

Responsible for the direction of engineering across the cloud native backend space, to support the overall Technology plan.
Governance & decision making for designs, ways of working and solutions to engineering requirements (tech stack, CI-CD, security, patterns etc).
Support the design process across our platforms, working with business and technology stakeholders to translate business problems into technical designs.
Supporting the Technical Lead community in driving the Engineering Community of Practice.
Peer review of technical designs and business requirements.
Supporting the Maintenance of the Engineering Skills matrix, training plans and development.
Work with exciting tech stake such as; Kubernetes on AWS with Istio, Java 17, Docker, GraphQL (Apollo), Akamai, Auth0, Jenkins, Maven, Dynatrace, Expert CI/CD, Github, Jira and Confluence.

What We Need

Proven experience of developing technology platforms, including technical architecture, estimation, planning, non-functional requirements, and Continuous Improvement activities using modern agile techniques.
Be able to work in an Agile environment where responding to change is a daily requirement.
Solid experience of designing and building secure highly scalable cloud native web applications.
Experience working with off-shore partners particularly focusing on fostering amazing working relationships.
Have expert experience with Java Microservices and cloud native architectures (AWS ideally)
Are an expert and evangelist for technology and innovation within this specific domain.
Have experience with CI/CD and the ability to evangelise about this.
Have experience with tooling solutions eg Kubernetes, Istio, Veracode, Sonarcube, Maven, Jenkins or similar.
Have some experience of developing training and team development plans to drive performance across multi-skilled teams.
Have a good understanding of business modelling techniques and approaches to capturing requirements.

Be part of the dynamic Information Technology/Engineering Team

Whitbread are the owners of Premier Inn, and some of the UK’s most loved restaurants. Our Technology team builds products and services that are used by around 40,000 employees and our guests. Everything from an eCommerce website that handles £3 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.

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: 60994-4492

Advertised: 10 Apr 2025

London, United Kingdom

On site

10-04-2025