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

Rebellion; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading game development company in Oxford seeks a Senior Cloud/DevOps Engineer to design and maintain cloud infrastructure, implement automation frameworks, and enhance CI/CD pipelines. The role offers flexibility with remote options and an extensive benefits package. Ideal candidates will have substantial DevOps experience, especially with AWS and Azure, and familiarity with containerization tools.

Benefits

22 days holidays + Christmas closure

Private Medical Insurance

Enhanced Pension Scheme

Life Assurance

Mental Health and Wellbeing Support

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Deploy, manage and monitor cloud infrastructure in a LiveOps environment.
• Design and implement cloud architecture.
• Identify and deploy cybersecurity measures.

Skills

DevOps experience

Infrastructure as Code expertise

Container management

CI/CD systems familiarity

Monitoring and incident response knowledge

Tools

AWS

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitLabCI

Pulumi

Microsoft PlayFab

Job description

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

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 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 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.

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.

Requirements

• Prior experience working in DevOps 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, CircleCI 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 PlayFab is desirable.

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!

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!

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.

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.