Senior DevOps Engineer

The role

This person will architect, build, and deploy infrastructure and applications in a hybrid AWS and Kubernetes environment. Work covers use cases from web integrations to predictive machine controllers and battery-based energy products.

What you will do

• Leverage existing in-house AWS architectures and design new ones using the CDK tool kit.
• Operationalize workloads in AWS and Kubernetes.
• 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 including automation through infrastructure-as-code and security.
• Perform root cause analysis of production errors and resolve technical issues.
• Author and maintain detailed design documents and system architecture diagrams.

Required qualifications

• 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.
• 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.
• Experience with 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 have

• Fluency in Python strongly desired.
• Working knowledge of databases (relational and non-relational) a plus.

About the company

Redwood Materials was founded in 2017 by JB Straubel, co-founder and former CTO of Tesla. It is the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America.