Lead DevOps (Site Reliability Engineer)

Location: McLean, VA; Wilmington, NC

Department: Software Engineering & Systems Administration

About the role

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our team. The Lead SRE will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining the reliability, scalability, and performance of our cloud-based systems hosted in AWS. You will collaborate closely with software engineers, operations teams, and other stakeholders to enhance system reliability and developer productivity through automation, monitoring, and incident response

What you'll do

• Lead a team of SREs consisting of FTEs and contractors
• Define and assign the tasks to SREs, review the PRs and provide the feedback
• Design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure in AWS.
• Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, and dashboarding solutions to ensure system health and uptime.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using tools like Terraform and Terragrunt
• Implement CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployments and improve development workflows.
• Respond to incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement permanent fixes to prevent recurring issues.
• Optimize system performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness in collaboration with engineering teams.
• Drive infrastructure improvements and advocate for best practices in system design and operations.
• Establish and manage disaster recovery plans, ensuring system availability during unexpected events.

Qualifications

Minimum Education

• BS/BA in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Preferred Education

• MA in Computer Science

Minimum Skills

• Argo CD and Argo Workflows
• IaC: Terraform and Terragrunt
• Kubernetes and and related plugins
• GitHub Actions
• AWS (EKS, Fargate, Aurora)
• Security and Compliance
• Containerization (Docker)
• Logging and Monitoring Tools
• Programming Scripting Language
• DB Management
• Version Control (Git)
• Incident Management

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Datadog
• Experience with Cloudflare
• Mortgage Domain Knowledge
• Advanced Security Practices (GuardDuty, Security Hub)
• Disaster Recovery Planning
• Experience with workflow automation tools such as Camunda

Preferred Certification(s)

• AWS Associate, AWS DevOps Professional

What we offer
We’re committed to creating an environment where our team members can thrive both professionally and personally. We currently offer:

• Competitive Compensation – Including salary and performance bonuses.
• Comprehensive Benefits – Health, dental, vision, and mental wellness support.
• Retirement Savings – 401(k) with company matching.
• Career advancement opportunities with business growth. 
• Inclusive Culture – A diverse, collaborative, and supportive workplace where every voice is valued.
• Perks & Extras – Generous PTO, team events, wellness programs, and more.

About the Company

About Anza

Anza is building a mortgage insurance company from first principles. Most mortgage insurers operate on decades-old technology, manual workflows, organizational structures, and operating assumptions that have evolved incrementally over time. We believe there is a fundamentally better way.

Our vision is to build the industry's most technology-enabled mortgage insurer, one where software, automation, AI, analytics, and thoughtful operating design create better experiences for customers while allowing the business to scale efficiently without simply adding people.

We are not interested in making legacy processes slightly better. We are interested in building the operating model that mortgage insurance should have had all along.