Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Core responsibilities:

• Collect business & technical requirements and work with cross-functional teams to establish SLOs
• Design effective on-premise & hybrid systems & solutions with high availability & scalability, utilizing platform technologies including vSphere, Kubernetes, Linux, Windows
• Coordinate work across IT, Software, Industrial Controls, Engineering & Business teams to implement complete systems & ensure business needs are met
• Identify opportunities to automate deployment & management of IT infrastructure & systems to reduce manual efforts and speed recovery
• Develop integrations that streamline use & visibility of data across components to deliver complete, efficient systems providing excellent utility & 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

This role ensures Redwood Materials has resilient systems in place to scale at a rapid pace to a global enterprise, supporting the company's mission of localizing a global battery supply chain and driving the energy transition.

Required 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 & 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

Compensation will be commensurate with experience. The position requires occasional work weekends, nights, or being on-call as a regular part of the job, and occasional travel requirements.

Redwood Materials is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery, reuse, and recycling — keeping critical minerals in circulation and driving the energy transition. They'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.