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 2019, 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.

Site Reliability Engineer

Essential Duties:

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

Responsibilities will include:

• Collect business & technical requirements and work with cross-functional teams to establish SLOs and design effective systems & solutions with high availability & scalability.


• Coordinate work across IT, Software, Controls, & Business teams to implement complete systems & ensure business needs are met.


• Identify opportunities to automate deployment & management of IT infrastructure & systems to reduce unnecessary repetitive & manual efforts across the team.


• Develop integrations that streamline use & visibility of data across components to deliver complete, efficient systems providing excellent utility & ease of use.


• Support deployed systems, troubleshoot issues, and participate in an on-call rotation.

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology or any related field.


• 2+ years in a SRE or DevOps related role, and 5+ years in an IT or Software Development related role.


• Experience administering IT Infrastructure such as VMware, Active Directory, Windows Server, Linux, Networking, Cloud Infrastructure (AWS, Azure), 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.


• Self-motivated, hands-on mindset, with a willingness to contribute at all levels.


• A passion for sustainability and making the world a better place!

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to perform the essential job functions consistent safely and successfully with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.


• Ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state, and local standards

Working Conditions:

• Environment, such as office or outdoors.


• Ability to work in challenging working conditions which may include exposure to noise, dust, chemicals, and temperature extremes, while protected by PPE, for extended periods of time.


• Essential physical requirements, such as climbing, standing, stooping, or typing.


• Occasional work weekends, nights, or be on-call as a regular part of the job.


• Occasional travel requirements.

In accordance with California pay transparency laws, the salary range for this position is listed below. Actual compensation may vary based on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and skills.

California Pay Range:

$130,000 - $175,000 USD

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

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