Systems Engineer, Industrial Infrastructure

NextGenEnergyJobs; Nevada (IA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Redwood Materials is seeking a hands-on Systems Engineer to own the SCADA infrastructure for our industrial control environment. You will administer the SCADA platform, manage the historian, ensure data integrity, and drive resilience across multi-site deployments.

Requirements include a CS/engineering-related degree (or equivalent) with at least 3 years in systems engineering, expertise in VMware, Docker, Kubernetes, and OPC connectivity, and the ability to travel up to 10% for site support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience, plus minimum 3 years in systems/infrastructure engineering.
• Experience with enterprise-scale SCADA infrastructure, clustering/redundancy, and backups.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary administrator and technical owner of the SCADA platform — gateway configuration and upgrades, project/version management, redundancy and clustering, store-and-forward, licensing, and disciplined backup/restore for SCADA servers and HMI infrastructure.
• Own the SCADA database and historian tier: administer and tune the clustered back end, manage archival and retention, and protect data integrity and uptime for the historian and downstream data-lake feeds.
• Maintain the plant-to-historian data path, including OPC connectivity, and troubleshoot connectivity, performance, and data-quality issues across the OT pipeline.
• Help design, build, and operate enterprise hybrid infrastructure across datacenters and colocations; partner with the DevOps and data teams on cloud-resident workloads.
• Design for resilience and high availability: multi-site and islanded architectures, failover, backups and tested restores, capacity planning, and disaster recovery for availability-critical industrial workloads.
• Implement enterprise monitoring, alerting, and logging across the OT and infrastructure estate, and produce as-built documentation, runbooks, and standards.
• Occasionally respond to after-hours production emergencies when necessary, and travel periodically to Redwood sites (including San Francisco, South Carolina, Germany) and colocations.

Skills

SCADA

OT/IT integration

Scripting

Cloud/DevOps collaboration

Disaster recovery

Multi-site HA

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IS or related field

Tools

VMware

Docker

Kubernetes

MaxScale

F5

OPC connectivity

Job description

Redwood Materials is seeking a hands-on, resilience-minded Systems Engineer to own the infrastructure beneath our industrial control and SCADA environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as primary administrator and technical owner of the SCADA platform — gateway configuration and upgrades, project/version management, redundancy and clustering, store-and-forward, licensing, and disciplined backup/restore for SCADA servers and HMI infrastructure.
• Own the SCADA database and historian tier: administer and tune the clustered back end, manage archival and retention, and protect data integrity and uptime for the historian and downstream data-lake feeds.
• Maintain the plant-to-historian data path, including OPC connectivity, and troubleshoot connectivity, performance, and data-quality issues across the OT pipeline.
• Help design, build, and operate enterprise hybrid infrastructure across datacenters and colocations; partner with the DevOps and data teams on cloud-resident workloads.
• Design for resilience and high availability: multi-site and islanded architectures, failover, backups and tested restores, capacity planning, and disaster recovery for availability-critical industrial workloads.
• Implement enterprise monitoring, alerting, and logging across the OT and infrastructure estate, and produce as-built documentation, runbooks, and standards.
• Occasionally respond to after-hours production emergencies when necessary, and travel periodically to Redwood sites (including San Francisco, South Carolina, Germany) and colocations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience, plus minimum 3 years in systems/infrastructure engineering.
• Solid infrastructure skills: server virtualization (VMWare), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), enterprise storage, and core networking, including OT/IT segmentation.
• Demonstrated grasp of enterprise resilience and high availability: backups and restore validation, multi-site/distributed-datacenter design, colocation, and disaster recovery — with the OT mindset that availability is paramount.
• Comfort with scripting/automation (e.g., PowerShell, Python) and competency with AI tools to make engineering work repeatable and efficient across troubleshooting, automation, and documentation.
• Ability and willingness to respond to occasional after-hours emergencies, and travel up to 10% of the time, including occasional international travel; effective collaboration with Controls, OT, IT, and cloud/data teams.
• Hands-on knowledge of SCADA and other industrial systems a plus, but not required.
• Experience administering SCADA infrastructure in a highly available manufacturing environment, including clustering/redundancy, store-and-forward, and SCADA backup and licensing.
• Working knowledge of database architecture for SCADA/historian workloads. Clustering (e.g., Galera), proxy/load-balancing tiers (e.g., MaxScale, F5), replication, archival, and retention