Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer with 5+ years of experience in Linux systems, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise virtualization.
Hands-on experience across OpenStack and Kubernetes for major Telcos, OpenShift certified, plus enterprise VMware infrastructure deployment experience.
Currently serving as a Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer at Deda Connect.
Certifications
RHCSA
Advanced skills in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration and management. Experience includes LVM configuration, user and permissions management, and SELinux. Proficient in Autofs, storage management, networking, and systemd. Skilled in containerization using Podman, bash scripting for automation, and configuring essential services for enterprise environments.
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OCI Foundations
Core competencies in OCI resource management, including VCN configuration and IAM security. Proficient in provisioning compute instances, managing block/object storage, utilizing OCI Console/CLI, resource monitoring and cost management within the Oracle public cloud.
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EX280 – OpenShift Administration
Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration. Skills in deploying, configuring, and managing OpenShift Container Platform clusters. Proficient in application lifecycle management, workload deployment via DeploymentConfigs and Helm, networking with Routes and Services, RBAC security policies, persistent storage management, and cluster maintenance in enterprise Kubernetes environments.
Certification LinkExperiences
ScaiConnect
2020 – 2025Five years managing Linux systems and OpenStack platforms for major Italian Telcos (Wind3, CoopVoce, PosteMobile), working on a distributed infrastructure spanning over 20 datacenters across Italy. Day-to-day work covered the full stack: OpenStack core services (Nova, Cinder, Neutron, Glance, Heat), Kubernetes orchestration, SDN via OpenDaylight and OVSDB, Juniper (JunOS) and Pluribus NRU switches, NexentaStor and ScaleIO (PowerFlex) storage, Commvault backup, Corosync/Pacemaker high-availability clusters, and hardware-level diagnostics via IPMI.
Deda Connect
2025 – Present- Infrastructure deployment for CYTA Mobile: administration of Ericsson CEE/SDI and CCD (Kubernetes) environments, system upgrades, and production of technical documentation (LLD/HLD/MOP).
- Providing an internal company Linux course, covering foundational Linux topics for colleagues.
- Preparation of a Proof of Concept in a test environment: installation of a two-node OpenShift cluster with arbiter and configuration for VM migration from VMware to OpenShift Virtualization.
- Acted as the lead technical resource and system integrator for a complete VMware infrastructure deployment for ENEL, Italy’s leading energy company: installation of ESXi hosts, deployment and configuration of vCenter Server, setup of a vSAN ESA stretched cluster for hyperconverged, highly-available storage, and configuration of vDS for centralized, policy-driven network management. Delivered a production-ready, high-availability virtualization environment meeting the enterprise security and performance standards of a large-scale energy corporation, including full technical design documentation (LLD/HLD).
- Deployed and configured CheckMK monitoring instances for infrastructure health monitoring.
- Deployed IMC for centralized network management.
- Deployed and configured JumpServer as a secure VDI-based access gateway.
- Deployed and configured HPE OneView for hardware lifecycle management.
- Deployed VMware VCF Operations for cloud infrastructure monitoring and operations.
Additional Knowledge
Cloud Infrastructure & Orchestration
- OpenStack Ecosystem: Day-to-day management of virtual machines for end clients: instance provisioning, live and cold migrations, evacuations, and rebuilds via CLI (Nova). Storage operations with Cinder: volume creation, attachment, resizing, and snapshots. Network management via Neutron: port configuration, floating IP assignment, and network troubleshooting. Image management with Glance and stack orchestration with Heat.
- Containerization: Support and troubleshooting of containerized environments on Kubernetes. Day-to-day use of Docker and Podman for container management and debugging.
Networking & SDN
- SDN & Controllers: Support and troubleshooting on OpenDaylight-based SDN infrastructures, working on OVSDB entries at the server level to diagnose and resolve connectivity issues.
- Network Hardware: Support and troubleshooting on Pluribus NRU switches: diagnosing fabric issues and resolving MPO interface problems at the physical layer.
- Juniper Networks: Management of Juniper devices via JunOS: interface administration, cluster management (EAS), and configuration changes on production network equipment.
Storage & High Availability
- Distributed Storage: Administration of ScaleIO (PowerFlex) clusters: managing storage pools and devices, adding and removing resources, and performing maintenance operations on production distributed storage.
- NexentaStor: Management of NexentaStor clustered pools via CLI and NexentaFusion: pool and dataset administration, snapshot management, and troubleshooting of storage availability issues.
- High Availability: Configuration and troubleshooting of HA clusters with Corosync and Pacemaker: resource management, failover handling, and diagnosis of split-brain situations in production environments.
Hardware Management
- Server Health, IPMI & iLO: Remote hardware diagnostics and management via IPMI and HPE iLO: monitoring server health (fans, temperatures, PSUs), resetting unresponsive nodes, and resolving hardware-level failures without physical datacenter access.
AI Tools
- Agentic AI: Daily use of agentic AI tools and workflows (Claude Code). General understanding of how large language models work, prompt engineering, and AI-assisted task automation. Personal experimentation with locally-run LLMs (Ollama, Open WebUI).
Personal Projects
Homelab
- Self-hosted infrastructure: Deployment and ongoing maintenance of a personal homelab running 40+ containerized services (Docker), spanning reverse proxying, monitoring, automation, networking, self-hosted media/productivity tooling and a configured backup solution for data protection, plus a dedicated disaster recovery node covering a subset of critical services. Used as a continuous hands-on testbed for infrastructure concepts, container orchestration and new technologies outside of work.