diff --git a/packages/db/src/reset.ts b/packages/db/src/reset.ts
index fb88e20..7f12970 100644
--- a/packages/db/src/reset.ts
+++ b/packages/db/src/reset.ts
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
  */
 import postgres from "postgres";
 import { drizzle } from "drizzle-orm/postgres-js";
-import { migrate } from "drizzle-orm/postgres-js/migrator";
+import { execSync } from "node:child_process";
 import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
 import { dirname, resolve } from "node:path";
 import * as schema from "./schema.js";
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ import {
 
 const __filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
 const __dirname = dirname(__filename);
-const MIGRATIONS_FOLDER = resolve(__dirname, "../migrations");
 
 async function reset() {
   const url = process.env.DATABASE_URL;
@@ -73,7 +72,7 @@ async function reset() {
   // across processes regardless of how many connections the work uses —
   // it does NOT require the work to share the lock's session.
   //
-  // Therefore `max` must be ≥ 2: 1 reserved for the lock + ≥1 free for
+  // Therefore `max` must be >= 2: 1 reserved for the lock + >=1 free for
   // the work. `max: 1` would let `reserve()` consume the only connection
   // and every query inside the callback would block forever waiting for
   // a connection that never frees (connection-starvation deadlock). We
@@ -122,7 +121,15 @@ async function reset() {
       console.log("✓ All tables and enums dropped\n");
 
       console.log("Running migrations...");
-      await migrate(db, { migrationsFolder: MIGRATIONS_FOLDER });
+      // GRO-2672: drizzle-orm's migrate() has a high-water-mark bug that skips
+      // migrations with stale `when` timestamps (0001, 0003, 0010, 0011). Use
+      // drizzle-kit instead -- it applies migrations by hash, matching the K8s
+      // migrate Job behaviour exactly.
+      execSync("pnpm exec drizzle-kit migrate", {
+        stdio: "inherit",
+        env: { ...process.env },
+        cwd: resolve(__dirname, ".."),
+      });
       console.log("✓ Migrations applied\n");
 
       console.log("Seeding database...");