Analytics Engineer

We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION!  

For 30 years we’ve been independently developing and publishing incredible video games at our multiple studios founded by Jason & Chris Kingsley, but Rebellion is more than just games. We have our own film studio, we create board games, publish books, and through 2000AD, publish comics and graphic novels such as the amazing Judge Dredd. 

We are seeking an Analytics Engineer to join our data team, playing a key role in maintaining and evolving our analytics platform!

As an Analytics Engineer you will support teams across the organisation in accessing and understanding their analytics data, helping them answer business and technical questions, identify trends and issues, and make better data-driven decisions. You will help maintain and improve the reliability, performance and scalability of our ELK analytics infrastructure, while working with data to produce valuable insights, dashboards and analysis.

You will play an important role within a growing team, working closely with developers, game teams and other stakeholders to understand their data needs and get the most from our analytics platform. This is a great opportunity to make a meaningful impact while developing your skills across analytics, data engineering and Elasticsearch in a supportive, collaborative and technically focused environment.

This role will be based at our riverside headquarters in Oxford, offering a creative and relaxed atmosphere where teamwork drives our success. We can provide a relocation package, including moving assistance, temporary accommodation, and full support to ensure a smooth transition to your new environment. 

Key Outcomes: 

• Maintain and improve the reliability, performance and scalability of our ELK analytics cluster, ensuring high availability and reliable data pipelines.
• Enable teams across the organisation to access, understand and make effective use of our analytics data.
• Produce useful insights, analysis and dashboards that support better business decisions.

Responsibilities: 

• Maintain, improve and troubleshoot our existing ELK infrastructure, investigating performance and reliability issues and implementing practical solutions.
• Analyse data from our analytics platform, developing queries, dashboards and insights to answer business and technical questions and identify trends or issues.
• Work with developers and game teams to understand their data and analytics needs and help them get the most from the system.
• Support internal users with access and usage, while helping teams resolve data-related issues.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate issues, work with data and communicate findings clearly.
• Hands-on experience working with data, analytics or data engineering, with an enthusiasm for learning and developing your skills.
• Professional experience working with Elasticsearch, Logstash and/or Kibana.
• The ability to work autonomously, collaborate with other teams and learn quickly.

Desirable

• Experience working with ELK clusters or supporting production analytics pipelines.
• Experience building Kibana dashboards, visualisations or extensions.
• Experience with SQL, Python or other data analysis tools.
• Elastic training/certification.

We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:

• 22 days holidays + Christmas closure (typically 4 days) & Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years – one day each year until you reach 31 days)
• Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision
• Life Assurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover
• Enhanced Family Leave
• Interest Free, Tax-Free loans
• Enhanced Pension Scheme
• EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
• Plus loads more… including a wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events!

Right to Work Statement

This role is only open to applicants who have the permanent right to work in the UK. We are unable to provide or take over visa sponsorship, either now or in the future. Applicants must therefore be able to demonstrate their ongoing eligibility to work in the UK without the need for employer sponsorship.

Life at Our Oxford HQ

Our riverside headquarters in Oxford places you a short walk away from the city centre. Renowned for its rich historical backdrop and esteemed educational institutions, Oxford offers a unique blend of tradition and modernity, with its beautiful architecture and green spaces.

Oxford also boasts excellent transport links, making it easy to navigate both the city and the wider country. The city’s train station, just a short walk from our studio, offers frequent services to London, as well as direct routes to major cities like Birmingham, Manchester, and Reading and we also offer free parking at the studio.

Our open-plan office promotes teamwork and innovation, with regular interaction with senior management and other departments, alongside access to free hot drinks, a handy tuck shop onsite and a range of local pubs, cafes and dining options nearby helping make every workday enjoyable!

Inside Rebellion

Whichever team you join at Rebellion we are proud of our open, friendly, and creative atmosphere. We love what we do, and we have fun doing it! As a big indie developer, we have complete creative freedom over our titles which allows us to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms.

Find out more about us here

Our size, stability, and the variety of in-house expertise across multiple industries, makes Rebellion completely unique! We work in our own way, and we celebrate that as the key to our success. We foster an inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself, to express your creativity and your talent. We are people focused and will support you in every way to can be the best at what you do. We recognise the importance of enjoying what you do and having a healthy work-life balance. We offer a friendly, creative, and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and a wide variety of benefits and development opportunities for all our teams to ensure you are fully supported with your physical and Mental Well-being.

We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to add to our culture of growth and inclusion. Rebellion encourages innovation in all areas, and we look forward to hearing how you can help us to be better. We encourage all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neurodiversity and beyond, because a representative team makes better products.

If you are interested in working at Rebellion, but this role doesn’t sound quite like you, we’re recruiting for a range of positions across the studio and we’re always happy to receive speculative applications via our website. Visit our Careers website to view all our live vacancies: Rebellion: Careers

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