massimiliano adamo

Senior Linux Engineer | Kubernetes & Automation

Salary / Daily rate

Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

LinuxAnsibleKubernetesOracleMongoDBAWSElasticsearchMariaDBPostgreSQLMySQLOracle CloudOracle DatabaseDevOpsGitApache SparkGitLabJenkins

Languages

Italian (Native)EnglishSpanish

About me

Intro

Linux Engineer with 15+ years architecting enterprise infrastructure at European Commission, Allianz, and major financial institutions. Proven expertise in reducing costs by 20%, improving uptime by 15%, and migrating critical systems. Specialized in Kubernetes, AWS, VMware, and Oracle with focus on high-availability solutions and automation.

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Work experience

Linux Engineer

European CommissionFreelance

Dec 2022 - Present

3 years 11 months

21027 Ispra, VA, Italy

As a Linux Architect at JRC ISPRA Europe, I design, implement, and maintain robust Linux-based infrastructure solutions. My role includes strategic planning, system optimization, and ensuring high availability and security. Responsibilities: Designed and deployed scalable Linux systems on VMware. Conducted system architecture reviews for performance improvements. Managed server environments for optimal performance. Documented system configurations and procedures. Collaborated with teams to integrate software and hardware solutions. Led troubleshooting and root cause analysis. Automated system management with Ansible and Puppet. Implemented monitoring with Grafana and Prometheus. Upgraded servers from CentOS to Rocky Linux. Configured Apache Spark and Solr clusters. Deployed RKE2 Kubernetes clusters and Helm charts. Mentored junior engineers. Achievements: Migrated critical services to a secure Linux environment, reducing costs by 20%. Designed a high-availability cluster, improving uptime by 15%. Led a security initiative, reducing vulnerabilities by 30%. Enhanced system visibility with Grafana and Prometheus. Developed a disaster recovery plan. Installed a 6-node Apache Spark cluster. Improved search with an 8-node Apache Solr cluster. Deployed RKE2 Kubernetes and Helm for better container management. Skills and Tools: Linux administration and architecture VMware virtualization Ansible for automation Grafana, Prometheus, Nagios, Zabbix for monitoring Security best practices High availability and disaster recovery Server migration (CentOS to Rocky Linux) Apache Spark for data processing Apache Solr for search RKE2 Kubernetes, Helm for container orchestration Team collaboration

Stratus Vos sysadmin

NEXIFreelance

Jul 2020 - Aug 2024

4 years 2 months

Work in Authorization system of credit card , with Stratus/vos servers

Linux Engineer

AllianzFreelance

Dec 2018 - Jul 2019

8 months

Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy

I worked at ALLIANZ S.P.A in the Finance sector with Bloomberg AIM oracle Db and Aix and Linux system. I developed some data flows with bash script an pl/sql of Funds arriving from stock market. Bloomberg AIM send us many files and we collect these data on our system(oracle) and we filter and enrich these data for many systems in cascade with different data flows .

AWS linux sysadmin

PIXIEFreelance

Jul 2014 - Dec 2018

4 years 6 months

Valencia, Spain

Aws Linux Architect for different web projects.

DBA Oracle

HP Enterprise Security Services

Dec 2013 - May 2014

6 months

20063 Cernusco sul Naviglio, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy

At the moment i work on HP for ENI SNAM customers with all oracle architecure. I work on DBA group with 2000 servers (windows,linux,hp ux) and oracle(8,9,10,11 RAC,dataguard ecc ecc).

DBA oracle/Unix sysadmin

engineeringFreelance

Sep 2011 - Jul 2013

1 year 11 months

I have worked for www.engineering.it system integrator for Gaetano Pini Hospital , I manage three oracle RAC 11.2.0.2 RAC extendend On two site with 600 mt distance (site A and site B). I manage 1 oracle rac 10G and other instance 9.2..0.8, i administer all Linux machine (redhat 5.5 and redhat 4.4). I manage oracle RMAN and export with iBM Tivoli Backup. I installed mysql replication on two host active/active.

dba oracle

borsa italiana

Jun 2010 - Aug 2011

1 year 3 months

• I worked for London Stock Exchange Group , I manage the Oracle Database (11G rac) for the websites London Stock Exchange and Borsa Italiana (http://www.londonstockexchange.com/ http://www.borsaitaliana.it/ ). I do all activities of DBA admin , build new instances on rac environments. I check the sql and pl/sql code when have some problem and I check the Performance .

dba oracle/Unix SYSADMIN

POLO universitario AO SANPAOLOFreelance

Jan 2009 - May 2010

1 year 5 months

• From January 2009 and May 2010: I have worked for www.engineering.it system integrator for Sanpaolo Hospital , I manage Oracle istances (Release 9.2.0.8.0) on IBM aix in cluster with HCMP and storage EMC (cx500) . I’m developing consolidation environments for backup policy and optimize the instances and the performance of DB. I manage three linux host with 10 tomcat istances and one apache istances. I developed new IBM blade center oracle 10G RAC with three node .

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