Senior Database Administrator

The Tours Digital Solutions team at EF Tours is the group of engineering and technology professionals empowering EF to send groups of students and educators on guided educational tours across the world. We power every step of our customer’s journey – from showcasing our tour offerings, to creating personalized itineraries, and collecting their feedback after the tour.

What you’ll do

Manage highly available SQL Server clusters across development and production environments

Establish disaster recovery, backup, and restore strategies, and support intersystem replication

Lead efforts to automate cloud operations and infrastructure, balancing cost and performance

Collaborate and consult with application teams to determine appropriate schema design and database platforms

Provide expert troubleshooting support and proactively improve database and server performance

Define, document, and evangelize best practices and recommended technologies

Who you are

Experienced SQL Server Database Administrator (2014/2016/2019)

Demonstrated ability provisioning and leveraging AWS services

Passionate about automating cloud/database/maintenance operations

Self-starter who thrives in an autonomous environment

Strong desire to learn new technologies and explore new database engines

Why you'll love working with us

People at EF make things happen. We encourage you to take full ownership of your work, regardless of your level or experience. EF team members often say we operate like the world’s largest startup because this boundless entrepreneurial spirit is built into our organization’s DNA. We also offer among other benefits:

Private health insurance after 3 months

Hybrid Work model - 3 days onsite & 2 days remote

STEP (Staff Travel Experiential Program) As we want our teams to know our product and customer, we offer the opportunity to all our permanent staff to travel yearly on one of our global tours.

Brand new office opening in September 2024 that offers great employee amenities

About EF Education First

At EF we believe that the world is better when people try to understand one another. Since 1965, we have helped millions of people see new places, experience new cultures, and learn new things about the world and about themselves. Our culturally immersive education programs—focused on language, travel, cultural exchange, and academics—turn dreams into international opportunities.

When you join EF, you join a multicultural and diverse community working across more than 600 schools and offices in 50 countries, all with one shared mission of opening the world through education. Whoever you are, whatever you are passionate about—we welcome you and want you to bring that to work every day. EF is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to inclusion and belonging across race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, caste, parental status, identity, experience and everything else that makes you unique.

Founded in Sweden in 1965, EF has schools and offices around the world, including hubs in Boston, London, Mexico City, São Paulo, Shanghai, Stockholm, Zürich, and more. Learn more at