Database Architect – Oracle, PostgreSQL, Cloud Migration

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🔥 22 hours ago

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $160k - $180k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

☁️ Cloud Engineer

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Carbon60

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💰 Private Equity Round on 2019-01

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Carbon60 is a leading Canadian managed cloud services provider that specializes in simplifying cloud management for various organizations. They offer an extensive range of services including managed private, public, and edge clouds, cloud backup and disaster recovery, cloud security, and migration services. Carbon60 is recognized for its expertise in managing complex performance, security, and compliance requirements across multiple sectors including financial services, healthcare, public, and technology sectors. Their cloud solutions are designed to be secure, compliant, and optimized, offering 24x7x365 support with a focus on delivering high-quality, reliable, and flexible cloud-based solutions to empower their clients' cloud journey.

📋 Description

• Own the architecture of the data tier across migration and modernization programs • Assess current state and design target state, migration strategy, sequencing, risk, and effort • Make and defend convert-versus-rewrite-versus-retire and cloud platform decisions • Design Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migrations, including schema conversion, PL/SQL to PL/pgSQL strategy, mismatch resolution, query rewrites, and performance validation • Plan low-downtime cutovers using CDC replication, dual-run, output comparison, rehearsals, go/no-go criteria, and rollback plans • Diagnose database performance problems and implement evidence-based fixes • Architect cloud database infrastructure, including sizing, HA/failover, backup/recovery, patching, encryption, observability, and cost optimization • Define operational models for managed services, including runbooks, monitoring, alerting, escalation paths, and health checks • Lead client architecture and design sessions and communicate trade-offs to executive stakeholders • Support pre-sales and delivery planning through scoping, estimation, proposals, and statements of work • Build reusable reference architectures, migration playbooks, conversion patterns, and assessment tooling • Use agentic and AI-assisted workflows for conversion, test generation, analysis, and documentation while verifying outputs • Review engineers' database work, mentor engineers, and document architectural decisions

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in database engineering, administration, or data platform work • Several years in an architect or principal-level role with design authority over business-critical systems • Deep Oracle expertise, including PL/SQL, partitioning, RMAN, Data Guard, AWR, ASH, execution plans, optimizer statistics, and SQL tuning • Strong PostgreSQL expertise, including PL/pgSQL, EXPLAIN ANALYZE, index strategy, partitioning, autovacuum, bloat management, connection pooling, replication, WAL, PITR, and production extensions • Both Oracle and PostgreSQL are required • Experience architecting and delivering Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migrations to production • Cloud infrastructure depth, ideally AWS, including RDS, Aurora PostgreSQL, RDS for Oracle or Oracle on EC2, VPC, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, and Performance Insights • Infrastructure-as-code and automation using Terraform or CloudFormation, plus Python, Bash, or PowerShell • Ability to read application code and understand database interactions • Practical experience with agentic AI tooling in technical delivery workflows • Executive-ready communication skills • Migration tooling experience with AWS Schema Conversion Tool, AWS DMS, ora2pg, or equivalents is preferred • Experience with MSSQL or other relational engines is preferred • Exposure to hybrid and private cloud environments is preferred • Managed services or 24/7 operational accountability is preferred • Consulting or MSP background with North American enterprise clients is preferred • Experience with .NET application teams is preferred • Data protection and compliance exposure is preferred • Observability tooling and database change management experience is preferred • Relevant certifications are a plus but do not substitute for demonstrated migration outcomes

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation package (160K - 180K CAD / year) • Retirement Savings Matching Program (RRSP) • Access to the latest tech • Partnership with Perkopolis Discounts • Remote first work environment • Flexible work hours & location • Paid parental leave options • Employer paid health & dental premiums • GreenShield+ Counselling Mental Health • $500 in Health Care Spending Account annually • Peer recognition rewards