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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.\nJoin 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!\nThe Company:\nFounded in Austin in 1989, EZCORP has grown into a leading provider of pawn loans in the United States, Mexico and Latin America. 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machines to:Detect Azure resource thresholds and capacity risks\nIdentify performance and availability conditions\nTrigger alerts for proactive issue prevention\n\nIntegrate alerting with PagerDuty for critical on-call notifications and email-based warnings for non-critical events.\nParticipate in on-call rotations and lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident remediation.\nAutomation, CI/CD & Infrastructure as Code\nUse Terraform to deploy, standardize, and maintain Azure SQL resources, alerting configurations, and monitoring baselines.\nMaintain data platform infrastructure and pipeline deployment assets using Terraform modules (e.g., providers, variables, constraints, private endpoints, IAM patterns).\nSupport continuous delivery by maintaining Azure DevOps YAML pipelines for build, test, and deployment workflows.\nEnforce engineering standards via repository governance practices (PR templates, pre-commit hooks, linting/validation, documentation).\nContinuously 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