Senior DevOps Engineer contractor

Rebellion is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer contractor to be the sole DevOps specialist within a small code team. This role involves designing and maintaining infrastructure, implementing automation, establishing CI/CD pipelines, and optimizing performance and security. The engineer will drive game development workflows, ensuring reliability, scalability, and efficiency, taking full ownership of the DevOps function.

Must Have

• Analyse and reduce cloud costs, explore alternative infrastructure options.
• Design, implement, and document robust deployment pipelines and automation.
• Produce clear, actionable documentation for infrastructure management.
• Audit PII handling, security roles, and access policies for compliance.
• Build automated load test suites and provide transparent reporting.
• Develop IaC for critical custom application pipeline migration to a different cloud.
• Define production incident scenarios, disaster recovery strategies, and failover options.
• Proven experience building, maintaining, and documenting high-quality IaC pipelines across Azure and AWS.
• Strong version control experience with GitHub.
• Demonstrated success overseeing critical production application migrations with zero downtime.
• Deep understanding of data compliance requirements, including GDPR and PII.
• Hands-on experience with automated, on-demand load testing at scale.
• Skilled in scenario planning and developing comprehensive disaster recovery (DR) plans.

Good to Have

• Experience with Pulumi
• Familiarity with Perforce

Perks & Benefits

• Riverside headquarters in Oxford, short walk from city centre
• Excellent transport links, train station near studio
• Free parking at the studio
• Open-plan office promoting teamwork and innovation
• Regular interaction with senior management
• Access to free hot drinks
• Handy tuck shop onsite
• Range of local pubs, cafes, and dining options nearby
• Open, friendly, and creative atmosphere
• Complete creative freedom over titles
• Work on a massive variety of projects across all major platforms
• Inclusive culture, encouraged to be yourself
• People-focused support for professional growth
• Healthy work-life balance
• Friendly, creative, and relaxed working atmosphere
• Sensibly managed projects
• Wide variety of benefits and development opportunities
• Support for physical and Mental Well-being

Description

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 DevOps Engineer contractor to join our code department to become the DevOps specialist within a small team.

As the Senior DevOps 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 DevOps 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 also offer this as a fully remote role.

Key Outcomes and Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure Optimisation – Analyse and reduce cloud costs, explore alternative infrastructure options, and provide detailed cost estimates based on CCU.
• Infrastructure Extension – Design, implement and document robust deployment pipelines and automation to streamline project creation and environment provisioning.
• Infrastructure Documentation – Produce clear, actionable documentation for bringing infrastructure up/down on demand and ensuring team self-sufficiency.
• Security & Compliance Review – Audit PII handling, security roles and access policies to ensure full compliance and data protection compliance.
• Load & Performance Testing – Build automated load test suites and provide transparent reporting on system performance and coverage.
• Cloud Migration – Develop IaC for a critical custom application pipeline to migrate to a different cloud private with autoscaling and failover capabilities.
• Scenario & Disaster Recovery Planning – Define production incident scenarios, disaster recovery strategies, and cross-provider failover options.

Requirements

• Proven experience building, maintaining, and documenting high-quality IaC pipelines to support multiple environments and concurrent projects — across both Azure and AWS (experience with Pulumi is a plus).

• Strong version control experience with GitHub; familiarity with other systems such as Perforce is advantageous.

• Demonstrated success overseeing the migration of critical production applications between cloud providers with zero downtime.
• Deep understanding of data compliance requirements, including GDPR and other international regulations governing personally identifiable information (PII).
• Hands-on experience with automated, on-demand load testing at scale.
• Skilled in scenario planning and developing comprehensive disaster recovery (DR) plans to ensure system resilience and business continuity.

Benefits

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

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.

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