Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS/Azure) - Tech Team

We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION!

For 30 years we’ve been creating incredible video games at our multiple studios, but Rebellion is more than just games. We have our own film and mo-cap studio, we create board games, publish books, and through 2000AD, publish comics and graphic novels such as the amazing Judge Dredd.

We operate across multiple UK locations, with studios based in Oxford, Warwick, Liverpool, and Wakefield. Work-life balance is important to us, and we want everyone at Rebellion to work in the way that works best for them. So, if you are based in the UK, we are always open to discussing how we can support flexible/hybrid working options.

We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS/Azure) to join our code department to become the DevOps specialist within a small team.

As the Senior DevOps engineer, you will be 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.

This could also be an excellent opportunity for a highly experienced mid-level DevOps Engineer to take a step forward in their career, especially if you're proven within the field and have trained or led small teams previously within DevOps.

Key Outcomes:

• 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

Responsibilities:

• Effectively deploy, manage and monitor Cloud infrastructure in a LiveOps 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.

• Experienced with version control systems like Perforce and git

• A knowledge of creating and maintaining logging, monitoring and incident response technologies
• Experienced with Infrastructure as Code technologies (AWS/Azure)
• Experienced containerising applications and maintaining containerised infrastructure (ECS, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes etc)
• Familiarity with CI / CD systems like Jenkins, GitLabCI, CircleCI etc
• Experience with Pulumi is desirable.

• Knowledgeable in Microsoft PlayFab is an advantage.

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!

About Us

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