Senior DevOps 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 a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our code department, playing a key role within our backend technical team!

As a DevOps Engineer, you will contribute to designing and maintaining our infrastructure, implementing automation frameworks, establishing robust CI/CD pipelines, and optimizing performance and security measures. Your work will support our game development workflows, helping to ensure reliability, scalability, and efficiency. 

You will play an important role within a growing team, collaborating closely with other engineers to evolve and scale our infrastructure. This is a great opportunity to make a meaningful impact while continuing to develop your expertise in a supportive, team-oriented 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: 

• Own and continuously improve the reliability, availability and scalability of our production cloud infrastructure.
• Drive the consolidation, improvement and expansion of our cloud platform and infrastructure capabilities.
• Increase visibility and operational control across the cloud estate through effective monitoring, logging, alerting and health metrics.
• Improve automation, security and engineering workflows to support reliable and efficient LiveOps.

Responsibilities: 

• Take ownership of the deployment, management and monitoring of cloud infrastructure in a LiveOps environment, including participation in an on-call rota.
• Scope, design and implement scalable, secure and resilient cloud architectures using Infrastructure as Code, with Pulumi as a core technology.
• Lead the development and maintenance of cloud automation, testing, CI/CD and containerised infrastructure, working closely with code and build teams to streamline delivery.
• Lead incident management and root cause analysis, while identifying and implementing improvements to prevent recurring production issues.

• Strong professional experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE or a similar production-focused role.
• Strong experience with Git, alongside CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
• Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi desirable), including designing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong experience with monitoring, logging, incident response and production troubleshooting.
• Experience containerising applications and operating containerised infrastructure such as Docker, ECS, Docker Swarm or Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, reliability, scalability and operational best practices.

Desirable

• Experience with Microsoft PlayFab.

• Experience working in a games or other LiveOps environment.

• Experience with Perforce.

• Experience mentoring engineers or providing technical leadership within a DevOps or Platform team.

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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