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Description
About Buro Happold
Buro Happold is an international, integrated engineering, design, and advisory consultancy with over 45 years of experience operating in nearly 40 offices worldwide. We deliver creative, value‑led building, city, and infrastructure solutions that respond to complex challenges in the built environment. Our work spans structural, sustainability, environmental, digital transformation, advisory, and more.
Buro Happold
We believe in collaboration, innovation, human wellbeing, sustainability, and carrying out work that benefits people, places, and the planet.
Role Overview
As a DevOps Engineer at Buro Happold, you will bridge the gap between software development, infrastructure, operations, and security. You will be instrumental in automating, scaling, and maintaining the systems and toolchains that support our digital platforms — both internal tools (engineering, modelling, analysis, project collaboration, etc.) and systems that support operations. You will work closely with Development, IT, Digital Transformation, and Specialist Engineering teams to ensure our systems are reliable, secure, and efficient.
Key Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support fast, reliable deployment of software and services.
Provision, configure, and manage cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and/or on‑prem where needed.
Automate infrastructure management and operations with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible).
Monitor system performance, establish observability (logging, metrics, alerting), and respond to incidents.
Implement and manage containerisation / orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes) for scalable services.
Work with security and compliance teams to embed best practices (e.g. secrets management, vulnerability scanning, network policies).
Collaborate with cross‑disciplinary engineering, digital & modelling teams to ensure tools and environments support their workflows (e.g. large compute jobs, modelling, simulation).
Drive cost optimisation for infrastructure usage (cloud spend, resource allocation).
Support disaster recovery, backups, high availability, and scaling strategies.
Required Skills & Experience
Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer (or similar role) in a complex environment.
Strong knowledge of one or more cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Experience with infrastructure‑as‑code tools (Terraform, Ansible, etc.).
Good understanding of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, etc.).
Containerisation technologies (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS, etc.).
Strong scripting skills (e.g. Python, Bash, PowerShell).
Hands‑on experience with monitoring / observability tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Datadog etc.).
Understanding of security best practices (identity & access management, secrets management, network security, etc.).
Excellent troubleshooting and incident response skills.
Good communication skills; ability to work with non‑technical stakeholders when necessary.
Ability to manage competing priorities, work in fast‑paced and often multidisciplinary teams.
Nice to Have
Experience in data engineering or large‑scale data processing environments.
Experience working with modelling, simulation, or computational engineering tools.
Knowledge of performance engineering, high performance computing (HPC).
Experience with infrastructure cost monitoring / FinOps.
Experience implementing disaster recovery and business continuity for global services.
Understanding of sustainability in digital infrastructure (energy usage, carbon footprint of cloud services etc.).
What You’ll Gain
Opportunity to work on high‑impact projects across sectors (built environment, infrastructure, sustainability, etc.).
Collaborative, multidisciplinary teams and exposure to many specialist engineering fields.
Work aligned with global sustainability goals.
Chance to innovate and influence the digital / operational infrastructure of the company.
Good benefits, career development, professional growth in a company that values inclusion, well‑being, and human values.
Cultural Fit & Values
You share a passion for sustainable, socially‑responsible and creative solutions.
You are collaborative, curious, and comfortable working across disciplines.
You take mutual responsibility and are proactive in communication.
You are committed to continuous learning and improvement.
Role tech stack
AWS
Docker
Microsoft Azure
MySQL
Kubernetes
Life at
Buro Happold
Culture overview
At Buro Happold, we foster a collaborative, inclusive, and purpose-driven culture. We believe in working across disciplines and borders as one team, united by a shared goal: to deliver sustainable, human-focused solutions.
We champion equity and diversity through global employee networks, mentoring, and transparent inclusion efforts. We support flexible working and wellbeing, while encouraging bold thinking and technical excellence.
Ours is a culture of shared responsibility, where creativity, integrity, and impact go hand in hand.
Employee benefits
30 Days Holiday
Enhanced parental leave
Learning/Development days
Pension
Private Healthcare
Office vibe
Clubs & Meetups
Friday Drinks
Open Plan
Social Events
Team Building Days
Location
Tech at
Buro Happold
Tech overview
We develop and apply digital tools to design smarter, more sustainable buildings and cities.
Digital twins & data integration: We build digital twins for buildings and infrastructure, integrating BIM, GIS, sensor data, and analytics.
Computational design: Using tools like Rhino, Grasshopper, and custom scripts, we automate and optimise complex geometry and systems.
Open-source frameworks: Our BHoM platform enables cross-discipline data exchange and automation.
Sustainability tools: We build software to measure embodied carbon, energy use, and performance — linked directly to design models.
Enterprise systems: We integrate cloud/on-prem ERP and project tools (Unit4, Deltek) to streamline operations.
Cloud & data workflows: We run hybrid infrastructures, data pipelines, and use ML to speed up design decisions.
We value interoperability, open standards, and combining deep engineering expertise with innovative software.
