Riccardo Salamanna

Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Hostelworld Group
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Figline e Incisa Valdarno, Tuscany, Italy, IT
Languages
  • English Full professional proficiency
  • Spanish Full professional proficiency
  • Italian Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Catalan Limited working proficiency
  • French Limited working proficiency

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Credentials

  • M103: Basic Cluster Administration
    MongoDB
    Jun, 2023
    - Nov, 2024
  • Introduction to MongoDB
    MongoDB
    Apr, 2023
    - Nov, 2024
  • Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation
    Google Cloud Skills Boost
    Feb, 2023
    - Nov, 2024
  • Securing your Network with Cloud Armor
    Google Cloud Skills Boost
    Jan, 2023
    - Nov, 2024
  • Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services
    Google Cloud Skills Boost
    Dec, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation
    Google Cloud Skills Boost
    Dec, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals
    Google Cloud Skills Boost
    Dec, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
    Google Cloud Skills Boost
    Nov, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • API Design and Fundamentals of Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform
    Google Cloud Skills Boost
    Sep, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Deploy and Manage Apigee X
    Google Cloud Skills Boost
    Sep, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Os X Server Essentials - Mountain Lion
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    Jan, 2013
    - Nov, 2024
  • Os X Support Essentials - Mountain Lion
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    Jan, 2013
    - Nov, 2024
  • ITIL v3 Foundation
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    Jan, 2012
    - Nov, 2024
  • DELF (Diplome d'etudes en langue française)
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Experience

    • Ireland
    • Travel Arrangements
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Senior Site Reliability Engineer
      • Feb 2023 - Present

    • Site Reliability Engineer
      • May 2022 - Feb 2023

    • Germany
    • Insurance
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • DevOps Engineer
      • Aug 2021 - May 2022

    • Senior System Engineer
      • Mar 2020 - Aug 2021

      My role here is to provide full engineering and administration for the core part of the infrastructure that all the developers rely on, using full devops methodology (Terraform and Ansible). Planning, engineering and managing the whole network for the company from the multiple AWS accounts, on prem DC, multiple office locations and global VPN.Planning and engineering of the service monitoring with Zabbix of various services.Maintenance and engineering of multiple AWS services via Terraform modules (EKS clusters, RDS DB, DocumentDB, VPC services, EC2, ASG, ELB/ALB etc.)Developing and maintenance of Ansible repositories for a number of services and configurations, with many in-house developed roles (e.g. github-runner with xcode to maintain self-hosted servers for iOS development, active directory enrollment automation for linux machines, Zabbix agent deployments, AWX role, etc)Troubleshooting and support to developers and devops leads on infrastructure matters Show less

    • Germany
    • Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • System Lead
      • Sep 2019 - Mar 2020

      Responsible for official legal documentation for pharmaceutical factories and processes. Responsible for official legal documentation for pharmaceutical factories and processes.

    • Spain
    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Senior System Administrator
      • Sep 2018 - Apr 2019

      Lead Linux and Os X administrator engineer of the Corporate IT team. The aim of my position was to provide remote maintenance, consolidation, hardening and security policies to all the internal servers and workstations. My main responsibilities: • VDI project based on VMware Horizon - In charge of developing a Linux workstation template, remotely maintained using technologies such as Ansible, Ansible Tower, Satellite 6. The farm of VMs was hosted on a VMware ESXi cluster. These virtual desktops were the workstation systems used for development, testing and QA. • Implementation of Parallels management for SCCM - This is a plugin that expands Microsoft SCCM capabilities for Os X based device management; my job was to replicate as closely as possible the GPOs implemented in AD, ensuring that all Macs would be patched, secured, and hardened following the company’s guidelines. • Consolidation of all internal Linux server configuration - Update, consolidate and implement remote management for a number of internal servers that were not maintained in a centralized manner. Show less

    • Spain
    • Airlines and Aviation
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Operations Engineer
      • Oct 2017 - May 2018

      Part of a small IT team in this startup that offers wi-fi entertainment systems for airlines (movies, series, games, etc). My tasks were mainly to travel to the various locations to perform troubleshooting, updates, and installations on aircraft during night hours. All operations were carefully orchestrated and tested before the trip to ensure compliance. Besides operations, i would support the engineering team various administration tasks. Part of a small IT team in this startup that offers wi-fi entertainment systems for airlines (movies, series, games, etc). My tasks were mainly to travel to the various locations to perform troubleshooting, updates, and installations on aircraft during night hours. All operations were carefully orchestrated and tested before the trip to ensure compliance. Besides operations, i would support the engineering team various administration tasks.

    • Switzerland
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 500 - 600 Employee
    • System Engineer
      • Nov 2013 - Jan 2017

      Part of a team of 10 system engineers, in a fast-paced, dynamic environment; taking care of various customers' projects regarding planning, execution and maintenance of infrastructure related tasks. My main areas of responsibilities: • Full-stack infrastructure provisioning, taking care of code building, packaging, integration, deployment and L3 application support into internal and customer systems (Adobe AEM) • Lead system engineer on search related projects, in charge of investigation, development , testing and analysis of the provided solution (Attivio), deployment to the customers and L3 application support. • On site implementation of the offered solutions to the customers in international locations. • Development and improvement of internal continuous integration environment, built on technologies such as Puppet, Jenkins, Maven, Zabbix etc. The target operating systems are mainly RHEL linux, Ubuntu linux and Solaris unix. • Taking care of internal company infrastructure ensuring safe and encrypted connectivity between various locations (internal and customer) and the main datacenter. • Selecting, setting up and coaching the growing L3 support engineer team. • Maintaining of close collaboration with software and QA engineers to ensure optimal quality and timing, tying in with the customer specific requirements. Show less

    • Spain
    • Entertainment
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Linux System Administrator
      • May 2013 - Oct 2013

      Working on a team of 5 system administrators, responsible for roughly 90 servers hosted on Amazon AWS EC2. Main area of responsibility were: - AWS account management - Engineering of system and statistics monitoring (Zabbix) - Database administration (Percona MySQL) - Web server administration (NgninX and Apache) - Puppet administration - Managing and improving of infrastructure security (Servers, EC2 and IAM) - Bash scripting - Troubleshooting - On-call support Working on a team of 5 system administrators, responsible for roughly 90 servers hosted on Amazon AWS EC2. Main area of responsibility were: - AWS account management - Engineering of system and statistics monitoring (Zabbix) - Database administration (Percona MySQL) - Web server administration (NgninX and Apache) - Puppet administration - Managing and improving of infrastructure security (Servers, EC2 and IAM) - Bash scripting - Troubleshooting - On-call support

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • IT System Administrator
      • Oct 2011 - May 2013

      1st and 2nd level support for CTS to 3 European branch offices (Barcelona, Winterthur and Paris). Main reponsabilities: - Customer support (phone, email, IM). - Troubleshoot hardware, software and networking issues (Windows computers). - Development of a parallel infrastructure to seamlessly integrate Apple technology (OsX, iOS) with the existing infrastructure. - Manage Blackberry BES server. - Responsible for hardware and software deployment (SCCM). - Security depute for the Barcelona office (Sophos administration and deployment) - Support and administration of Microsoft active directory and exchange. - Support and administration for Cisco VPN - Managing internal IM infrastructure (Cisco Webex Connect) - Managing and troubleshooting of Cisco Tandberg videoconferencing systems - IT onboarding and training for new employees - Implementation and improvement of security policies within desktop support Show less

    • Spain
    • Telecommunications
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • System Administration Intern
      • May 2010 - Oct 2010

      Main responsibilities: - Microsoft active directory administration - L1 and L2 customer support - Email server managing (qmail with plesk interface) - ESX installation and management Main responsibilities: - Microsoft active directory administration - L1 and L2 customer support - Email server managing (qmail with plesk interface) - ESX installation and management

Education

  • Institut Joan Brossa
    Diploma in IT system administration
    2009 - 2011
  • Istituto Ernesto Balducci
    Diploma di ragioneria (high school diploma in accounting)
    2000 - 2005

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