Matt Thornback Email & Phone Number

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Waterloo, On

Lead a DevOps team responsible for deploying and managing a distributed application on multiple platforms* Infrastructure Architecture SME for the cloud application* Support transition of microservices from VMs to containers running on Kubernetes* Create a minikube/docker-desktop development environment using Helm & Skaffold* Responsible for Production deployments with Helm* VM provisioning on Joyent's SDC platform and VMware using Chef Provisioning and Terraform*… Show more Lead a DevOps team responsible for deploying and managing a distributed application on multiple platforms* Infrastructure Architecture SME for the cloud application* Support transition of microservices from VMs to containers running on Kubernetes* Create a minikube/docker-desktop development environment using Helm & Skaffold* Responsible for Production deployments with Helm* VM provisioning on Joyent's SDC platform and VMware using Chef Provisioning and Terraform* Configuration Management & Deployment using Chef, RunDeck, and Ansible* Chef cookbook integration testing using Kitchen & Vagrant/Docker* Contribute code to internal Github & Gitlab repositories and perform code reviews* Troubleshoot application & platform issues* App stack includes nginx, nodejs, Redis, Postgres, elasticsearch, HAProxy, Kafka & Zookeeper, Cassandra, HSM* Logging, monitoring, and alerting tools including New Relic, Grafana (with InfluxDB), ELK stack, Graylog, PagerDuty (all integrated with Slack) Show less

* Support a virtualization environment of 600+ AIX LPARs, Solaris LDOMs & Zones* Resolve OS & HW issues with support from vendors* Provide guidance to more junior team members and co-op students* Unix Operations Lead for Server Refresh 2014 (virtualization) project* Participate in on-call rotation* Developed existing Solaris Physical-to-Virtual process to improve consistency and reduce errors* Automated AIX LPAR profile creation, reducing deployment time for new VMs by… Show more * Support a virtualization environment of 600+ AIX LPARs, Solaris LDOMs & Zones* Resolve OS & HW issues with support from vendors* Provide guidance to more junior team members and co-op students* Unix Operations Lead for Server Refresh 2014 (virtualization) project* Participate in on-call rotation* Developed existing Solaris Physical-to-Virtual process to improve consistency and reduce errors* Automated AIX LPAR profile creation, reducing deployment time for new VMs by 75% Show less

Waterloo, On

* Support multiple ECM sites for Managed Hosting Services customers* Assist in troubleshooting of supporting services, including databases, SAN/NAS, load balancers, SMTP, and web/app servers in a multi-domain environment* Reduced after-hours effort by scripting regular service maintenance in a large customer environment* Resolved complex configuration issues with a new cloud service by working closely with customers * Identified security vulnerabilities in new cloud software and… Show more * Support multiple ECM sites for Managed Hosting Services customers* Assist in troubleshooting of supporting services, including databases, SAN/NAS, load balancers, SMTP, and web/app servers in a multi-domain environment* Reduced after-hours effort by scripting regular service maintenance in a large customer environment* Resolved complex configuration issues with a new cloud service by working closely with customers * Identified security vulnerabilities in new cloud software and worked with development team to resolve Show less

Waterloo, On

* Design solution & infrastructure architecture for various Manufacturing & IT projects* Coordinate Operations & Engineering teams including Networking, Windows/UNIX, Storage, Virtual Infrastructure, DB, and Web Technologies to ensure that all aspects of a system function as designed* Design systems spanning multiple DMZs from the external-facing perimeter firewall to the internal corporate network* Validate new systems design by deploying RHEL & Windows test VMs using VMware… Show more * Design solution & infrastructure architecture for various Manufacturing & IT projects* Coordinate Operations & Engineering teams including Networking, Windows/UNIX, Storage, Virtual Infrastructure, DB, and Web Technologies to ensure that all aspects of a system function as designed* Design systems spanning multiple DMZs from the external-facing perimeter firewall to the internal corporate network* Validate new systems design by deploying RHEL & Windows test VMs using VMware vSphere* Assist operations teams with implementation of new systems Show less

* Automate common tasks using Perl & VBScript* Support FlexLM license management environment on Solaris & Windows servers* Eliminated costly downtime of licensed CAD applications by developing a QA-testing environment and process for new FlexLM licenses before deploying to Production

Supporting Sun Life Financial contract

* Support 350+ Solaris & AIX servers in a 24/7 High Availability environment* Perform domain-wide root password changes for SOX compliance* Receive, rack, and cable servers and install Solaris OS* Write shell scripts to automate common tasks such as migrating user accounts between servers, updating SSH keys, IP scanning

* Build and manage all aspects of small office network including Linux & Windows servers running Active Directory, File services, FTP, Web (Apache, IIS), DNS, DHCP* Support printers, plotters, switches, automated tape backup, UNIX/Windows integration (Samba, CIFS), VPN* Performed OS installations (Win NT/2000/XP, HP-UX 10.20/11i, Solaris 8, Red Hat Linux 8.0)* Technical & CAD support for up to 15 coworkers* License management using LUM and FlexLM