We are seeking an experienced Database Lead to drive large-scale Oracle to PostgreSQL migration initiatives on cloud platforms. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Oracle and PostgreSQL database administration, heterogeneous database migration, cloud-native database services, and migration planning with minimal downtime.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end Oracle to PostgreSQL migration projects in cloud environments.
- Assess Oracle databases and design migration strategies for PostgreSQL.
- Perform schema conversion, data migration, validation, and performance optimization.
- Execute heterogeneous database migrations with minimal business disruption.
- Design high availability, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions for PostgreSQL.
- Optimize SQL queries, indexes, and database performance after migration.
- Collaborate with application, cloud, infrastructure, and DevOps teams during migration.
- Automate migration and database administration activities using scripting.
- Troubleshoot complex migration and database performance issues.
- Prepare migration documentation, runbooks, and best practices.
Required Skills
- Strong Oracle Database Administration (11g/12c/19c).
- Strong PostgreSQL Administration experience.
- Hands-on experience migrating Oracle to PostgreSQL.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform).
- Expertise with migration tools such as:
- AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
- AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT)
- Ora2Pg
- Oracle Data Pump
- pgLoader
- pg_dump / pg_restore
- Strong SQL, PL/SQL, and PostgreSQL programming skills.
- Performance tuning, indexing, partitioning, query optimization, and database monitoring.
- Linux/Unix administration and Shell scripting.
- Experience with backup, recovery, replication, and high availability solutions.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, or Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Ansible).
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, OEM, or CloudWatch.
- Oracle and PostgreSQL certifications are an added advantage.