DevOps Software Engineer, Energy Storage

Redwood Materials • San Francisco, CA

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

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. DevOps Engineer Essential Duties: Redwood Materials is looking for motivated and talented DevOps engineers to help architect, build, and deploy infrastructure and applications in a hybrid AWS and Kubernetes environment. These applications will cover use cases from web integrations with auto manufacturers to predictive machine controllers to new battery-based energy products. The ideal candidate is someone experienced with creating, managing, and supporting both AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes (self-hosted and AWS EKS based) using infrastructure-as-code tools. This is an opportunity to join during a critical growth phase and build green field software experiences and capabilities which will have a significant impact on the company’s day-to-day operations and ability to scale.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience as a DevOps engineer or in a similar software engineering role developing solutions in AWS.
• Similar 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: configuring and managing clusters, helm chart development and deployment, building containers, working with docker, etc.
• Experience automating AWS solutions using infrastructure-as-code tools, such as CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.
• Fluency in Python strongly desired.
• Linux, Git.
• An understanding of security best practices, and the experience, to know when and where to apply them.
• Demonstrated ability to manage production workloads (debugging, monitoring, alerting)

Nice To Haves

• Working knowledge of databases (relational and non-relational) a plus.
• A passion for excellence and making the world a better place!

Responsibilities

• Leverage existing in-house AWS architectures and design new ones where needed, using the CDK tool kit to manage and create AWS resources.
• Operationalize workloads in AWS and Kubernetes, helping to design and implement monitoring solutions and deployment pipelines.
• Enhance existing and implement new build/test/deploy automated pipelines.
• Partner with on-prem counterparts to drive hybrid infrastructure projects.
• Apply industry best practices (automation through infrastructure-as-code, security, etc.)
• Perform root cause analysis of production errors and resolve technical issues.
• Author and maintain detailed design documents and system architecture diagrams.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees