Staff Site Reliability Engineer

About Redwood Materials

Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery, reuse, and recycling — keeping critical minerals in circulation and driving the energy transition. Founded in 2017, we’re delivering low-cost and large-scale energy storage and producing battery materials in the U.S. for the first time, all from batteries we already have.

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Staff Site Reliability Engineer to collect requirements, design and implement highly available systems solutions, coordinate work across multiple teams, drive improvements to existing systems, introduce automation, integrations, and ensure appropriate monitoring and alerting is in place for rapid response. This role will collaborate, assist with, lead projects and drive initiatives to ensure Redwood Materials has resilient systems in place to scale at a rapid pace to a global enterprise.

Responsibilities will include:

• Collect business and technical requirements and work with cross-functional teams to establish SLOs
• Design effective on-premise, hybrid systems, solutions with high availability and scalability, utilizing platform technologies including vSphere, Kubernetes, Linux, Windows
• Coordinate work across IT, Software, Industrial Controls, Engineering, Business teams to implement complete systems and ensure business needs are met
• Identify opportunities to automate deployment and management of IT infrastructure and systems to reduce manual efforts and speed recovery
• Develop integrations that streamline use and visibility of data across components to deliver complete, efficient systems providing excellent utility and ease of use
• Support deployed systems responding to incidents, leading fast triage, troubleshoot issues, and participate in an on-call rotation
• Lead post-incident reviews and drive improvements to eliminate repeat failure modes

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology or any related field.
• 2+ years in an SRE related role, and 5+ years in an IT Systems related role
• Experience administering IT Infrastructure such as VMware, Active Directory, Windows Server, Linux, Networking, Cloud Infrastructure (AWS, Azure), Load balancing & Monitoring
• Expertise in scripting, coding, automation, and integration with tools such as Python, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, REST, YAML, JSON, etc
• Experience working with SCADA, OT, MES, or other industrial related software and systems is preferred.
• Experience with DR playbooks, capacity modeling, and cost/performance optimization in hybrid environments
• Self-motivated, hands-on mindset, with a willingness to contribute at all levels.
• A passion for sustainability and making the world a better place!

The position is full-time. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.

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