Systems Engineer, Industrial Infrastructure

Doist; Nevada (IA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Redwood Materials is seeking a hands-on Systems Engineer to own and operate the SCADA platform and the infrastructure that supports our industrial control systems. You will manage gateway configuration, clustering, and data flows from plant floor to enterprise systems in a 24/7 manufacturing setting.

The ideal candidate will bring a bachelor's degree in a related field, strong virtualization and containerization skills, and proven experience building resilient, high-availability industrial

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• Experience with server virtualization, containerization, storage, and networking in industrial environments.
• Strong scripting/automation skills (PowerShell, Python) and ability to work across OT/IT domains.
• Experience designing for resilience, high availability, and disaster recovery in multi-site setups.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary administrator and technical owner of the SCADA platform, including gateway configuration and upgrades.
• Own the SCADA database and historian tier, including archival, retention, and data integrity.
• Maintain plant-to-historian data paths and troubleshoot OT connectivity and data quality.
• Design and operate enterprise hybrid infrastructure across data centers and colocations.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and documentation across OT and infrastructure estate.
• Occasionally respond to after-hours emergencies and travel to Redwood sites.

Skills

Scripting/automation

OT/IT segmentation

Troubleshooting

Cross-functional collaboration

Disaster recovery

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Information Systems

Tools

VMware

Docker

Kubernetes

Enterprise storage

Core networking

Galera

MaxScale

F5

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.

Systems Engineer, Industrial Infrastructure

Redwood Materials is seeking a hands-on, resilience-minded Systems Engineer to own the infrastructure beneath our industrial control and SCADA environment.This role is the primary technical owner of our SCADA platform, including thegateways, application clustering and redundancy, the database tier, data archival, and the data path from the plant floor to enterprise systems,in a 24/7 manufacturing setting. Partnering with the Systems Engineering team and the Controls, OT, and cloud/data teams, this person helps design andoperateour hybrid-cloud and on-prem infrastructure across distributed datacenters and colocations. The ideal candidate has deep experience keeping mission-critical industrial systems available across multiple global sites.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary administrator and technical owner of the SCADA platform — gateway configuration and upgrades, project/version management,redundancyand clustering, store-and-forward, licensing, and disciplined backup/restore for SCADA servers and HMI infrastructure.
• OwntheSCADA 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.
• Helpdesign, build, andoperateenterprisehybrid infrastructureacross datacenters and colocations; partner with theDevOpsand data teams on cloud-resident workloads.
• Designfor 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.
• Occasionallyrespond to after-hours production emergencieswhen necessary, and travel periodically to Redwood sites (includingSan Francisco, South Carolina, Germany) and colocations.

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience, plusminimum3years 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-datacenterdesign, 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 torespond tooccasionalafter-hours emergencies, and travel up to10%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 aplus, butnotrequired.
• Experience administering SCADA infrastructure ina highly availablemanufacturing 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

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

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