Sr Database Administrator
At EZCORP we are a growing team focused on creating and changing the pawn industry as we know it today. We believe that our platform enabled lending and e-commerce solutions will revolutionize our ability to attract, engage and service our customers across the United States, Mexico and Latin America.
Join us now for an opportunity to be a part of a team that wants to provide access to short-term cash for every person – everywhere!
The Company:
Founded in Austin in 1989, EZCORP has grown into a leading provider of pawn loans in the United States, Mexico and Latin America. We are dedicated to satisfying the short-term cash needs of consumers who are both cash and credit constrained and providing an industry-leading customer experience.
What’s in it for you:
Ground Floor opportunity with EZCORP , a company with a start-up, purpose-driven mentality where innovative and agile problem solving are part of our DNA along with competitive compensation and benefits.
Address:
Ciudad de Mexico
This role is responsible for the design, administration, reliability, performance, and security of Azure-based SQL Server environments, while also owning key Data Engineering and data platform responsibilities that enable trusted, automated, and well-governed data pipelines. The position requires traditional DBA ownership and deep expertise in SQL Server administration, performance optimization and database design combine with modern cloud engineering practice - automation, CI/CD, testing, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to ensure highly available, scalable, and compliant data systems. The role supports both production and non-production environments and plays a critical part in on-call operations, proactive monitoring, incident prevention, and continuous improvement across databases and the broader data platform.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Database Administration (Azure SQL & SQL Server)
- Administer and support ~30 SQL Server IaaS virtual machines hosted on Azure, including production and non-production workloads.
- Manage and maintain 2 high-availability SQL Server clusters, ensuring uptime, failover readiness, and business continuity.
- Administer ~20 Azure SQL PaaS logical servers hosting multiple elastic pools, including Business Critical, General Purpose, and 7 Azure SQL Managed Instances supporting enterprise workloads.
- Manage and optimize Azure SQL elastic pools containing multiple Azure SQL databases per pool.
- Perform routine DBA activities including:
- Performance tuning and query optimization
- Index and statistics maintenance
- Capacity planning and cost optimization
- Backup, restore, and disaster recovery testing
- Security configuration, access management, and compliance
High Availability, Disaster Recovery & Replication
- Design, maintain, and validate high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) strategies across IaaS and PaaS SQL environments.
- Support production and non-production replication from a monolithic source database using Attunity Replicate (Qlik).
- Ensure data consistency, replication health, and timely recovery across replicated systems.
- Collaborate with application, reporting, and analytics teams to meet data availability SLAs.
Monitoring, Alerting & On-Call Operations
- Design, implement, and maintain comprehensive monitoring and alerting solutions across SQL platforms.
- Maintain alerting via:
- SQL Server Agent jobs
- Ability to pinpoint KPIs with SQL PI tools like Foglight.
- Azure Monitor and Azure Alerts (per resource)
- Develop and maintain PowerShell-based monitoring scripts running on virtual machines to:
- Detect Azure resource thresholds and capacity risks
- Identify performance and availability conditions
- Trigger alerts for proactive issue prevention
- Integrate alerting with PagerDuty for critical on-call notifications and email-based warnings for non-critical events.
- Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response, root cause anal