Senior Azure DevOps Engineer [Remote]

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:

Texas

The Senior Azure DevOps Engineer is responsible for administering all container orchestration and Azure Linux resources, guided by SRE principles. This role requires the ability to propose and evaluate design solutions, provide technical guidance to the team, and perform activities that build, support, and automate a large, complex cloud‐based computing environment. The ideal candidate will understand end‐to‐end technical layers (networking, security, compute, data) and ensure best practices for architecture, disaster recovery, tooling, automation, and compliance with cybersecurity policies.

What you will be doing:

• Design, develop, and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines and build processes

• Propose and evaluate Azure design solutions—including networking, security, compute, and data layers—to ensure the environment is robust, scalable, and aligned with business requirements.

• Manage cloud-native tech stacks with Kubernetes and Container Orchestration

• Drive monitoring and observability standards

• Lead automation testing frameworks, integrated into the CI/CD process

• Operate and maintain cloud - native tech stacks like Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), KEDA and advanced proficiency with Helm for automating Kubernetes.

• Collaborate with cross‐functional teams to propose well‐informed solutions that consider modern Azure servers, network, security, identity, and data requirements.

• Ensure alignment with regulatory and performance considerations while effectively operating and maintaining these solutions.

• Experience with Azure Monitor, including setting up alerts, and utilize APM tooling such as DataDog and/or Dynatrace for observability and performance monitoring.

• Expertise in Azure DevOps for managing pipelines and build processes.

• Familiarity with data pipelines and the ability to troubleshoot them effectively.

• Required experience with SonarQube and lint tools for code quality and security scanning.

• Lead unit, integration, and load testing practices with tools like SonarQube and lint integrated into the CI/CD process.

• Proficiency in Azure CLI and networking services like Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), Private Endpoints, DNS, Private DNS, and VMSS ScaleSets will be critical for managing our cloud infrastructure.

• Maintains all server-side cloud and Security documentation to ensure compliance with the government's cyber security policy.

• Develops strategies to manage support package releases and patch management.

• Monitors cloud infrastructure and VM system maintenance and provides technical recommendations for improvements.

What we are looking for:

• 5+ years of experience

• Bachelor’s degree or comparable work experience

• Close collaboration with DevSecOps teams to integrate security best practices into DevOps processes.

• Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting for automation tasks and managing infrastructure.

• Experience in supporting centralized management and automation systems using Ansible playbooks and ad-hoc commands.

• Familiarity with data pipelines and the ability to troubleshoot them effectively

• In-depth knowledge of Linux based operating systems and services from the command line.

• Familiarity with industry best practices for Linux server security; ability to implement organizational security standards on the Linux platform

• Experience with automated software update mechanisms such as yum, up2date and apt-get

• A SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) mindset, to ensure a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and continuous improvement within the operation.

• Thorough understanding and workings of incident handling protocols, personally identifiable information, Server network procedures and information handling

• Thorough understanding and workings of cloud Server models: IaaS, PaaS, DaaS, SaaS

• Experience migrating existing applications to cloud

• Good consultative, communication, analytical and judgement skills

• Experience with implementing and maintaining highly available mission critical environments, disaster recovery testing and creating technical documentation

• Demonstrated strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills; attention to detail and accuracy; and time management and organizational skills