Matthew Meserve Email & Phone Number

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Linux security and automation engineer responsible for maintaining infrastructure for multiple key security tools ranging from maintaining network ACLs, application and OS patching, automating application and security baselines, creating and maintaining monitoring scripts and CI/CD pipelines for keeping up to date on best security practices and linux optimization.Coordinates and schedules upgrades and patches. Tunes and optimizes Linux servers for each project's unique requirements, increasing efficiency of resource utilization, cutting overall costs by 15%.Ensures optimal up-time on mission critical tools in a 24/7 environment, accounting for automated scaling in cloud-based platforms, fault tolerance, troubleshooting and resolution of OS and hardware issues. Maintaining five 9s availability for all essential tools.Develops and maintains monitoring scripts which gather and report relevant information and performs basic troubleshooting tasks to limit the necessary time for manual troubleshooting and intervention, cutting administrative overhead time by 10-20%.Projects supported include: file integrity monitoring, full packet capture network monitoring, vulnerability scanning, network configuration management, linux security baselines, API testing, code scanning, automation CI/CD pipelines.Scripting Languages: Python, BASH, Ruby, YAMLCI/CD tools: Ansible, Screwdriver, Jenkins, Chef

Washington, Dc, Us

Investigate, troubleshoot and advise on Linux systems architecture and design. Collect and report security and performance concerns to management. Provide action plans to resolve concerns, presenting to change advisory board with detailed scope of changes, reasons for direction and risk assessments of both going through with the change and granting an exception request.Investigate and report any technical debt in either hardware or software and provide detailed action plans to address concerns.Identify and provide resolution for non-compliance for FIPS and PCI compliance regulations.

Reston, Virginia, Us

Maintain engineering infrastructure within the Security Operations Center environment. Perform deep packet inspection on DDoS attacks against customers to effectively mitigate any potential negative impact. Monitor alerts to identify any potential attacks against customers and inform the necessary parties to prevent service impact. Maintain the packet capture and sync scripts to maintain proper customer reporting. Maintain quality and uptime of Arbor, Juniper, and Citrix gear including: router, netscaler, CP, PI, and TMS. Open tickets with third party vendors for any necessary replacements or support needed. Develop automation tools for daily tasks and record keeping as needed.Created and maintained automation scripts for attack summary generation for all products as well as ticket creation, reducing documentation time by 80%.Created and implemented selenium-based functionality validation scripts for Arbor networks mitigation infrastructure, reducing testing time in new deployments by 70%.Helped create and maintain Nagios and dashboards to improve monitoring capabilities of critical services and customers, helping to reduce response time by 30%.Helped to create and maintain automated processes to keep and store historical key performance indicator data.Created scripts to utilize snmpwalk to capture reporting data from network equipment to help better plan needed upgrades and maintanences.Created startup initialization scripts for the packet capture processes to reduce chance of customer reporting failure in the event of a hardware failure.Provisioned and administer linux servers for development and tools deployments.

Singapore, Singapore, Sg

Install and maintain Red Hat Linux servers for both Operating System and Hardware. Create, deploy, and maintain automation and convenience scripts. Create scripts for new tasks as necessary. Monitor and maintain Nagios and cacti servers. Monitor and maintain active Linux services. Maintain and modify firewalls and VPNs. Monitor, troubleshoot and repair connectivity and data feeds. Add new clients and update existing clients. Maintain local DNS server. Deploy, maintain, and query MySQL instances. Work with remote hands to perform hardware replacements. Updated all documentation to accurately reflect processes, backups and server locationsCreated fully custom monitoring and alerting systems to integrate with already existing infrastructure, cutting response time down by 65%Created and managed user accounts and security for client-facing servers.Created custom formatting scripts to turn incoming data into company-standard format for a multitude of new feeds.Created convenience scripts to automate lengthy tasks, cutting daily administration time by 20%Maintained 125 Linux servers, cutting failure rate and down-time by 50%Updated backup plans to account for hardware or service failure, cutting down-time by 25%

Plan out Data Center server positions according to space, power and networking needs. Monitor and maintain server integrity in all Data Centers worldwide. Open order and upgrade requests per customer needs. Work with vendors to file RMAs as needed for equipment failures and work with vendor technicians to troubleshoot server hardware and configuration issues.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Maintained, installed and upgraded server hardware for HP, Rackable, Dell and Supermicro servers in large-scale data center of over 100K servers. Cabled uplinks to switches, servers and network gear. Covered pages for multiple data centers, maintained DNS entries, created and documented automation scripts for daily tasks and diagnosed Linux OS issues.Updated Operations Database, reflecting new and upgraded hardware.Managed and completed 11 high-priority projects, including large-scale hard drive upgrades, ram upgrades, filer moves, and BIOS updates, exceeding company objectives on completion time and reducing costs in man-hours by 20%.Performed installs of 18+ cabinets, completing within 4 days from receipt to handoff, surpassing company objectives on completion by average of 35%.Maintained highest SLA met-rate for East Coast for 3 years at 98.5% by creating scripts helping manage tickets, cutting documentation time by 40%.Oversaw ticket queue and acted as point of escalation for large data center, balancing workload and improving employee productivity and allowing manager to focus on important projects.Collaborated with other teams, completing large-scale filer re-cluster consisting of 26 Netapp Storage Filers being moved and reconfigured, reducing costs to run service by 50% and freeing up 16 tiles of floor space.Maintained cleanliness of CoLo and cart allocation, increasing employee productivity by 15% by simplifying tool location.Created new training process and taught several classes on basic Linux troubleshooting, repair, and commands, averaging 5 students per class, cutting training time in half.Created, documented, and maintained convenience and automation scripts for daily tasks including updating and receiving information from operations database, updating and gathering information from ticketing system, and running scans, cutting overall documentation time by 25%.