Experienced/Senior DevOps Engineer (AWS/Azure) - Tech Team

Rebellion co; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

22 days holiday plus bank holidays

Private Medical Insurance

Enhanced Family Leave

Interest Free loans

Enhanced Pension Scheme

Job summary

A leading game development company in the UK is looking for a DevOps Engineer to join their code department. You will play a vital role in designing and maintaining infrastructure and implementing automation frameworks to optimize performance. This position offers the chance to make a real impact while working in a collaborative team environment. Key qualifications include proven DevOps experience, familiarity with cloud technologies, and a background in the gaming industry. Excellent benefits and a supportive culture are provided.

Qualifications

• Experience in the videogames industry is advantageous.
• Understanding of cybersecurity measures is beneficial.
• Experience with incident management and root cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, manage and monitor cloud infrastructure.
• Contribute to designing scalable cloud architecture.
• Implement and maintain cloud testing tools.
• Support cybersecurity measures deployment.
• Collaborate with code and build teams.

Skills

Proven experience working in a DevOps role

Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies (AWS/Azure)

Experience containerising applications

Familiarity with CI/CD systems

Knowledge of logging and monitoring technologies

Tools

ECS

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Perforce

Git

Job description

We want you to#JOINTHEREBELLION!

For 30 yearswe’vebeen 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 filmstudio, 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 or more senior DevOps Engineer to join our code department, playing a key role within a growing team!

As a DevOps Engineer, you will contribute to designing and maintaining our infrastructure, implementing automation frameworks, establishing robust CI/CD pipelines, and optimizing performance and security measures. Your work will support our game development workflows, helping to ensure reliability, scalability, and efficiency.

You will play an important role within a growing team, collaborating closely with other engineers to evolve and scale our infrastructure. This is a great opportunity to make a meaningful impact while continuing to develop your expertise in a supportive, team-oriented environment.

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.

Key Outcomes

• Maintaining high SLA uptime and service reliability
• Supporting the consolidation, improvement and expansion of our cloud infrastructure
• Improving visibility of cloud estate and health metrics
• Enhancing control and management of production infrastructure as the platform scales

Responsibilities

• Deploy, manage and monitor cloud infrastructure in a LiveOps environment
• Contribute to the design and implementation of scalable cloud architecture
• Implement, maintain and improve cloud testing and automation tools
• Support the identification and deployment of cybersecurity measures
• Assist with incident management and root cause analysis
• Collaborate closely with code and build teams to ensure a streamlined workflow
• Work as part of a growing team to continuously improve DevOps practices and processes

Qualifications

• Proven experience working in a DevOps role
• Experience working within the videogames industry
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies (AWS/Azure)
• Experience containerising applications and maintaining containerised infrastructure (ECS, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes etc.)
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI etc.
• Experience with version control systems such as Perforce and Git
• Knowledge of logging, monitoring and incident response technologies
• Experience with Pulumi and Microsoft Power Fabis desirable

Benefits

• 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!

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.

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

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