Senior Cloud​/DevOps Engineer; AWS​/Azure - Tech Team

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 experienced and highly skilled Senior Dev Ops Engineer to join our code department to become the Dev Ops specialist within a small team!

As the Senior Dev Ops Engineer, you will be solely responsible for designing and maintaining the infrastructure, implementing automation frameworks, establishing robust CI/CD pipelines, and optimizing performance and security measures. Your expertise will be crucial in driving our game development workflows, ensuring reliability, scalability, and efficiency. You will be the sole Dev Ops engineer in a small team so this is a good opportunity to take ownership of this function and grow your expertise!

This exciting opportunity can be based out of either of our studios in Oxford or Warwick, offering flexibility, collaboration, and the chance to work with a world-class team! We can provide a relocation package, including moving assistance, temporary accommodation, and full support to ensure a smooth transition to your new environment. We can also offer this as a fully remote role.

• Maintaining the highest SLA uptimes.
• Consolidation, improvement and expansion of our cloud infrastructure offering.
• Increased visibility of cloud estate and health metrics.
• Greater control and management of infrastructure for production.

• Effectively deploy, manage and monitor Cloud infrastructure in a Live Ops environment.
• Scoping, design and implementation of cloud architecture.
• Implement, maintain and consolidate cloud testing and automation tools.
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures.

• Incident management and root cause analysis.
• Working with our code and build teams to ensure a streamlined workflow.

• Prior experience working in Dev Ops at a Senior level.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies (AWS/Azure).

• Strong experience with containerising applications and maintaining containerised infrastructure (ECS, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes etc).
• Familiarity with CI / CD systems like Jenkins, GitLabCI, Circle
  
  CI etc.
• Experienced with version control systems like Perforce and git.
• A knowledge of creating and maintaining logging, monitoring and incident response technologies.
• Experience with Pulumi and Microsoft Play Fab is desirable.

• 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!

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.

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…