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Senior DevOps Engineer

Redwood Materials
Posted February 25, 2025

McCarran, Nevada

Electric Vehicles

Full Time

Job Description

The Senior DevOps Engineer at Redwood Materials will architect, build, and deploy infrastructure and applications in a hybrid AWS and Kubernetes environment, focusing on enhancing the company's capabilities in the electric vehicle and clean energy sectors.

Responsibilities

  • Leverage existing in-house AWS architectures and design new ones using the CDK toolkit.
  • Operationalize workloads in AWS and Kubernetes, designing and implementing monitoring solutions and deployment pipelines.
  • Enhance existing and implement new automated build test deploy pipelines.
  • Partner with on-prem counterparts to drive hybrid infrastructure projects.
  • Apply industry best practices for 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.

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.
  • Hands-on experience deploying and managing Kubernetes workloads.
  • Solid knowledge and experience with AWS services including IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, VPC, DynamoDB, etc.
  • Solid knowledge and experience with Kubernetes and containerization including 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.
  • Working knowledge of Linux and Git.
  • An understanding of security best practices and the experience to know when and where to apply them.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage production workloads including debugging, monitoring, and alerting.
  • Physical ability to constantly perform desk-based computer tasks and grasp lightly with fine manipulation.
  • Physical ability to occasionally stand, walk, twist, bend, stoop, squat, reach, work above shoulders, sort, file paperwork or parts, and lift, carry, push, or pull objects that weigh up to 10 pounds.

Benefits

  • Compensation will be commensurate with experience
  • Full-time position
  • Occasional travel to Reno area 2-3 times a year
  • Infrequent night/weekend work if production systems are down
  • No formal on-call rotation, part of shared team responsibility

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