# Damon Light

Damon Light is a remote worker on Himalayas, Senior Customer Solutions Architect at ScienceLogic, based in United States.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@damonlight

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Site reliability and observability engineer at ScienceLogic who restored MariaDB with no data loss and improved monitoring health scores.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | United States |
| Authorized to work in | United States |
| Salary expectations | 130k+ USD |
| Job categories | Site Reliability Engineer, Observability Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Cloud Architect |
| Skills | Site Reliability Engineering, Observability, Linux Administrator, High Availability and Disaster Recovery, Incident Response, Monitoring And Alerting, Capacity Planning, Performance Analysis, Configuration Management, Ansible, DRBD, Pacemaker, Corosync, MariaDB, InnoDB Recovery |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/damonlight-672a4b26 |

## About

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At ScienceLogic, I resolved a service-impacting HA failover issue by tracing I/O faults to a DRBD backing-device block-size mismatch. I also authored a change MOP for a customer's HA+DR SSD storage refresh.

I restored a production MariaDB instance after InnoDB corruption, returning service in two hours with no data loss. I also led capacity planning and performance analysis across 14 enterprise monitoring environments, raising operational health scores 10–20%.

At Kyndryl, I served in the on-call rotation for multi-cloud infrastructure and restored service-impacting network, VPN, and server issues. I automated and maintained IBM Cloud IaaS virtual infrastructure with Ansible across 115 servers.

At IBM, I migrated eight applications and more than 120 Linux and Windows servers to a four-site IBM Cloud IaaS footprint in three months, with no major customer-facing outage. I also served in the on-call rotation and provided monitoring and event management architecture guidance.
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## Experience

### Senior Customer Solutions Architect

[ScienceLogic](https://himalayas.app/companies/sciencelogic). Nov 2023 - Aug 2026

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Resolved service-impacting HA failover errors and restored a production MariaDB instance after InnoDB corruption. Led capacity planning and performance analysis across 14 enterprise monitoring environments, improving operational health scores by 10-20%.
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Skills: HA-DR, DRBD, Pacemaker, MariaDB, InnoDB, SQL, SNMP, REST-APIs, Python, Ansible, Monitoring, Alerting, Capacity-Planning, Performance-Analysis, Arista-EOS, PowerPack, Dynamic-Applications

### Certified Architect, Systems Management Infrastructure

[Kyndryl](https://himalayas.app/companies/kyndryl). Sep 2021 - Oct 2023

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Served in the on-call rotation for multi-cloud infrastructure, restoring service-impacting network, VPN, and server issues. Automated and maintained virtual infrastructure on IBM Cloud IaaS using Ansible, delivering consistent operational visibility across 115 servers.
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Skills: On-Call-Operations, Incident-Response, Linux, Windows, IBM-Cloud, Ansible, Vyatta, Juniper-vSRX, VPN, Routing, Firewall-Administration, Architectural-Documentation

### Chief Enterprise Architect, Systems Management Infrastructure

[IBM](https://himalayas.app/companies/ibm-com). Jan 2006 - Sep 2021

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Migrated 8 applications and 120+ Linux/Windows servers to a 4-site IBM Cloud IaaS footprint in 3 months with no major customer-facing outage. Served as Infrastructure and Monitoring/Event Management Architect and SME, setting monitoring strategy and mentoring engineers.
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Skills: IBM-Cloud, Linux, Windows, Virtualization, VLAN, Networking, Monitoring, Event-Management, Architecture, Mentorship, Backup-And-Recovery, Incident-Response

### Automation Technical Lead / Architect

[IBM](https://himalayas.app/companies/ibm-com). Jan 1997 - Jan 2006

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Led distributed automation and custom scripting initiatives. Served as a senior help desk analyst.
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Skills: Automation, Scripting, Help-Desk

## Education

### University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Bachelor of Science, Information Systems Management

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Bachelor of Science in Information Systems Management from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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## Tech stack

- Splunk
- Microsoft Azure
- Kubernetes
- MariaDB
- Python
- Loki
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- OpenStack
- Ubuntu
- Oracle Linux
- Ansible
- Docker
- SQL
- IBM Cloud
- Bash
- AWS

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