Matt Mootz
Results-driven professional specializing in automation, cloud administration, and containerization. Skilled in Python, Kubernetes, Ansible, and monitoring tools to streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and reduce manual effort. Proven record of automating large-scale infrastructure tasks, optimizing monitoring, and improving incident response to ensure seamless operations in high-profile environments.
Experience
Software Engineer II
December 2014
— Present
DirecTV
Production support for systems broadcasting entertainment
- Reduced manual labor and off-hours support significantly, developing Python script that uses Kubernetes API to automate process of rebooting 1K nodes on bare metal, saving thousands of hours in manual effort restarting manually.
- Unified monitoring of vendor product, saving time from manual checks in each application.
- Used vendor API to export to Grafana dashboard, streamlining alerts so everything could be viewed in 1 dashboard and eliminating need to switch between different instances to verify problem.
- Reduced manual labor by developing Python script that combines data from service now and ineoquest, streamlining deployment of echofeeds to assigned probes when process was manually gathered before.
Staff Engineer Support Specialist
December 2014
— March 2020
DirecTV
Build out servers to client needs. Assisted troubleshooting client issues
- Streamlined deployment of configuration files for critical application with Ansible and bash, configuring and deploying complicated files and distributing them in critical production environment.
- Added modern monitoring to legacy application by developing custom Prometheus exporter, reducing MTTR from around 1 to <15 minutes.
- Upgraded critical application, scheduling and working with stake holders to alert them of downtime, writing detailed instructions on how to preform upgrade, having them reviewed, and executing plan during maintenance window.
- Provided operational support for high profile events (NFL, Olympics, Australian Open), demonstrating excellence in working well under pressure and responding to production issues / triaging them, including performing emergency patches on applications outside of normal business hours while currently live on-air.
Education
Capella University
Present
— Present
Bachelor of Science in Computer Security
Awards
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
August 2020
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
November 2021
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Skills
Linux:
Ubuntu, RHEL, CENTOS
Containers:
Kubernetes, Docker
Development:
PHP, Python, Bash, Ansible