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Redwood Materials, founded in 2017 by JB Straubel (co-founder and former CTO of Tesla), is the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America. The company recovers, refines, and redeploys critical minerals from end-of-life batteries back into the supply chain. Redwood has also deployed the largest second-life battery project in the world, delivering power to AI data centers using proprietary energy architecture engineered in-house. The company is profitable and operates in a market projected to grow 20–50x over the next decade.
Redwood is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to architect, build, and deploy infrastructure and applications in a hybrid AWS and Kubernetes environment. Applications will span web integrations with auto manufacturers, predictive machine controllers, and new battery-based energy products. This is a critical growth-phase opportunity to build greenfield software experiences and capabilities that will significantly impact the company's operations and scalability.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leverage existing in-house AWS architectures and design new ones using AWS CDK to manage and create resources
- Operationalize workloads in AWS and Kubernetes, designing and implementing monitoring solutions and deployment pipelines
- Enhance and implement new build/test/deploy automated pipelines
- Partner with on-premises counterparts to drive hybrid infrastructure projects
- Apply industry best practices including infrastructure-as-code automation and security
- Perform root cause analysis of production errors and resolve technical issues
- Author and maintain detailed design documents and system architecture diagrams
Working Conditions:
Infrequent night/weekend work if production systems require immediate attention. No formal on-call rotation; shared team responsibility. Full-time position.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience as a DevOps engineer or similar software engineering role developing solutions in AWS
- Hands-on experience deploying and managing Kubernetes workloads
- Solid knowledge and experience with AWS services: IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, VPC, DynamoDB, etc.
- Solid knowledge and experience with Kubernetes and containerization: cluster configuration and management, Helm chart development and deployment, Docker, container building
- Experience automating AWS solutions using infrastructure-as-code tools such as CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation
- Fluency in Python strongly desired
- Experience with Linux and Git
- Understanding of security best practices and demonstrated ability to apply them appropriately
- Working knowledge of databases (relational and non-relational) a plus
- Demonstrated ability to manage production workloads including debugging, monitoring, and alerting
