About the role
Description
For 30 years Rebellion has been independently developing and publishing incredible video games at their multiple studios founded by Jason & Chris Kingsley. Rebellion also operates a film studio, creates board games, publishes books, and through 2000AD, publishes comics and graphic novels.
The company is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the code department, playing a key role within the backend technical team. The role involves designing and maintaining infrastructure, implementing automation frameworks, establishing robust CI/CD pipelines, and optimizing performance and security measures to support game development workflows and LiveOps.
This role is based at the riverside headquarters in Oxford. A relocation package is available, including moving assistance, temporary accommodation, and full support.
Key Outcomes
- Own and continuously improve the reliability, availability and scalability of production cloud infrastructure.
- Drive the consolidation, improvement and expansion of the 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.
Requirements
- 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 Skills
- 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.
Benefits
- 22 days holidays + Christmas closure (typically 4 days) & Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years – one day each year until reaching 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 with a range of 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.
Life at Our Oxford HQ
The studio offers an open-plan office promoting teamwork and innovation, with regular interaction with senior management and other departments. Onsite amenities include free hot drinks and a tuck shop. The studio provides free parking and is located a short walk from the train station, which offers services to London, Birmingham, Manchester, and Reading.