Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Redwood Materials Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Redwood Materials is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to design and implement highly available systems, automate deployments, and coordinate across IT, software, and engineering teams. You will drive improvements, monitor performance, and ensure resilient scale to a global enterprise.

The role requires hands-on scripting and automation, experience with VMware, Kubernetes, Linux, Windows, and cloud platforms, plus strong collaboration skills.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in an SRE related role
• 5+ years in an IT Systems related role
• Experience administering IT infrastructure including VMware, AD, Windows/Linux, networking, cloud
• Scripting, coding, automation with Python, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, REST, YAML, JSON

Responsibilities

• Collect requirements and establish SLOs across cross-functional teams
• Design high-availability on-premise, hybrid systems
• Coordinate IT, Software, Industrial Controls, Engineering, and Business teams
• Automate deployment and management to reduce manual effort
• Develop integrations for data visibility across components
• Support incidents with on-call rotation and fast triage
• Lead post-incident reviews to prevent recurrence

Skills

SRE experience

System administration

Automation scripting

Python

Ansible

REST

YAML/JSON

Kubernetes

Monitoring & alerting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information technology or related field

Tools

VMware

Active Directory

Windows Server

Linux

Networking

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

vSphere

Job description

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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