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 doManage highly available SQL Server clusters across development and production environmentsEstablish disaster recovery, backup, and restore strategies, and support intersystem replicationLead efforts to automate cloud operations and infrastructure, balancing cost and performanceCollaborate and consult with application teams to determine appropriate schema design and database platformsProvide expert troubleshooting support and proactively improve database and server performanceDefine, document, and evangelize best practices and recommended technologiesWho you areExperienced SQL Server Database Administrator (2014/2016/2019)Demonstrated ability provisioning and leveraging AWS servicesPassionate about automating cloud/database/maintenance operations Self-starter who thrives in an autonomous environment Strong desire to learn new technologies and explore new database enginesWhy you'll love working with usPeople 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 monthsHybrid Work model - 3 days onsite & 2 days remoteSTEP (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