Redwood Materials
Senior DevOps Engineer
McCarran, NV · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- Today Redwood is the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America - recovering, refining, and redeploying critical minerals from end-of-life batteries back into the supply chain.
- On the energy side, Redwood has deployed the largest second-life battery project in the world, delivering power to AI data centers in months rather than years using proprietary energy architecture engineered entirely in-house.
- These applications will cover use cases from web integrations with auto manufacturers to predictive machine controllers to new battery-based energy products.
Responsibilities
- Leverage existing in-house AWS architectures and design new ones where needed, using the CDK tool kit to manage and create AWS resources.
- Operationalize workloads in AWS and Kubernetes, helping to design and implement monitoring solutions and deployment pipelines.
- Enhance existing and implement new build/test/deploy automated pipelines.
- Perform root cause analysis of production errors and resolve technical issues.
- Author and maintain detailed design documents and system architecture diagrams.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
- Solid knowledge and experience with AWS services: IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, VPC, DynamoDB, etc.
- Solid knowledge and experience with Kubernetes and containerization: configuring and managing clusters, helm chart development and deployment, building containers, working with docker, etc.
- Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience as a DevOps engineer or in a similar software engineering role developing solutions in AWS.
- Similar hands-on experience deploying and managing Kubernetes workloads.
- Demonstrated ability to manage production workloads (debugging, monitoring, alerting).
- Working Conditions:
- part of shared team responsibility.)
Nice to have
- Experience automating AWS solutions using infrastructure-as-code tools, such as CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.
- Fluency in Python strongly desired.
- Experience with Linux, Git.
- An understanding of security best practices, and the experience, to know when and where to apply them.
- Working knowledge of databases (relational and non-relational) a plus.
- Infrequent night/weekend work if production systems are down and require immediate attention. (No formal on-call rotation
Compensation
- Compensation will be commensurate with experience.
Company info
- About Redwood Materials Redwood Materials was founded in 2017 by JB Straubel, co-founder and former CTO of Tesla, on a simple but radical idea: the critical minerals powering the energy transition already exist.
- Working Conditions: - Infrequent night/weekend work if production systems are down and require immediate attention. (No formal on-call rotation; part of shared team responsibility.) The position is full-time.
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