Software Engineer - Tooling Admin

Whitbread; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

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.

Driving innovation, monitoring system health, resolving performance issues, and optimizing technology investments. By leveraging technical expertise, collaboration, and emerging technologies, we 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 with a hybrid way of working, requiring a minimum of 3 days a week in the office.

Why You’ll Love It Here

• Healthcare: Individual & Family BUPA healthcare
• Discounts: Up to 60% discount on Premier Inn stays and 25% discount on our Restaurant brand

As a Software Engineer – Tooling, you are responsible for the management, configuration, and optimization of tools and systems used by engineering teams. Your focus will be 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 Optimization 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 and 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 hotels and restaurants, to 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.