About the role
Company Overview
For 30 years Rebellion has been independently developing and publishing video games. The company also operates a film studio, creates board games, publishes books, and through 2000AD, publishes comics and graphic novels such as Judge Dredd. The environment is open, friendly, and creative with complete creative freedom over titles.
Role Overview
The Analytics Engineer will join the data team to play a key role in maintaining and evolving the analytics platform. The position supports teams across the organisation in accessing and understanding analytics data to identify trends, issues, and make data-driven decisions. The role involves working with developers, game teams, and stakeholders to understand data needs and optimise the analytics platform.
Key Outcomes
- Maintain and improve the reliability, performance and scalability of the ELK analytics cluster, ensuring high availability and reliable data pipelines.
- Enable teams across the organisation to access, understand and make effective use of analytics data.
- Produce useful insights, analysis and dashboards that support better business decisions.
Responsibilities
- Maintain, improve and troubleshoot existing ELK infrastructure, investigating performance and reliability issues and implementing practical solutions.
- Analyse data from the 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.
Requirements
- 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 skills.
- Professional experience working with Elasticsearch, Logstash and/or Kibana.
- The ability to work autonomously, collaborate with other teams and learn quickly.
Desirable Skills
- 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.
Benefits
- 22 days holidays plus Christmas closure (typically 4 days) and Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years up to 31 days).
- Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and vision.
- Life Assurance, Income Protection and Critical Illness Cover.
- Enhanced Family Leave.
- Interest Free, Tax-Free loans.
- Enhanced Pension Scheme.
- EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) for mental health and wellbeing support.
- Wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events.
Right to Work
This role is only open to applicants who have the permanent right to work in the UK. The company is unable to provide or take over visa sponsorship, either now or in the future.
Work Environment
- Located at the riverside headquarters in Oxford, a short walk from the city centre and train station.
- Relocation package provided, including moving assistance, temporary accommodation, and support.
- Open-plan office with free hot drinks, an onsite tuck shop, and local amenities nearby.
- Free parking at the studio.
- Role is onsite (LI-Onsite).