Senior Database Administrator

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🇲🇽 Mexico – Remote

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📀 Database Administrator

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EZCORP is a leading provider of pawn loans in the United States and Latin America, formed with 16 pawn stores in 1989. The company specializes in satisfying short-term cash needs for consumers who are cash and credit constrained, offering non-recourse pawn loans collateralized by personal property. In addition to financial services, EZCORP operates retail stores selling primarily pre-owned merchandise in a customer-focused environment. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, EZCORP is dedicated to diversity, inclusion, and the professional development of its team members.

📋 Description

• Design, administer, and ensure reliability, performance, and security of Azure-based SQL Server environments • Administer approximately 30 SQL Server IaaS virtual machines across production and non-production workloads • Manage two high-availability SQL Server clusters and approximately 20 Azure SQL PaaS logical servers with elastic pools and seven Azure SQL Managed Instances • Perform performance tuning, query optimization, index and statistics maintenance, capacity planning, cost optimization, backup and restore, disaster recovery testing, security configuration, access management, and compliance activities • Design, maintain, and validate high-availability and disaster-recovery strategies • Support production and non-production replication using Attunity Replicate (Qlik) • Collaborate with application, reporting, and analytics teams to meet data availability SLAs • Design and maintain monitoring and alerting using SQL Server Agent, Foglight, Azure Monitor, Azure Alerts, PowerShell, PagerDuty, and email notifications • Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident remediation • Use Terraform to deploy and maintain Azure SQL resources, alerting configurations, monitoring baselines, and data platform infrastructure • Maintain Azure DevOps YAML pipelines for build, test, and deployment workflows • Maintain repository governance practices including pull-request templates, pre-commit hooks, linting, validation, and documentation • Own enterprise data platform repositories and assets spanning Azure Data Factory, Databricks Python jobs, configuration, and deployment artifacts • Build and support modular data pipelines, Python-based transformations, business-rule logic, and automated unit, component, and integration tests • Support data quality validation, reconciliation, technical documentation, data governance, database consolidation, redesign, migration planning, and modernization efforts

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on experience as a Database Administrator with Microsoft SQL Server • 5+ years of T-SQL development and performance optimization experience • 3+ years of experience with database schema design, refactoring, and modernization • 2+ years of experience with Azure cloud services • Demonstrated experience optimizing databases supporting high-transaction OLTP systems • Proven track record of tuning poorly performing databases and queries • Experience with code review processes and mentoring development teams • Willingness to grow expertise in modern data platforms • Strong expertise in SQL Server administration (IaaS and PaaS) • Hands-on experience with Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Business Critical and General Purpose tiers, SQL Server Failover Clustering and/or Always On technologies, Azure infrastructure and services • Proficiency in PowerShell scripting for automation and monitoring • Monitoring and alerting experience with Foglight, Azure Monitor, and custom solutions • Preferred: 2+ years of data engineering or ETL/ELT development experience • Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices • Experience implementing medallion architecture or lakehouse patterns • Hands-on experience with Databricks and Azure Data Factory • Experience with Microsoft Fabric in production environments • Background in migrating on-premises databases to cloud platforms • Experience with DevOps practices for database deployments • Experience in regulated industries with compliance requirements • Exposure to real-time data streaming with Event Hubs or Kafka • Experience with data governance tools and frameworks • Experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD using YAML pipelines • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or related technical field required • Equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered • Highly desirable certifications: Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate; Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate; Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate or Professional • Additional valuable certifications: Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert; Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE): Data Management and Analytics; ITIL Foundation

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits • Equal Opportunity Employer

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