UNIX Systems Engineer Cover Letter

Please consider me for the UNIX systems engineer opportunity. I am including my resume that lists my qualifications and experience.

Previously, I was responsible for input to engineering team to design, implement, configure, operate, and maintain Enterprise Class DNS system providing name service to internal and external users.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Moderate xperience with Linux operating system Unix scripting language, bash, ksh
• Oracle Solaris 10 and Solaris 11 installation and configuration
• Familiar with Solaris virtualization in both logical domains and zones
• In depth knowledge of ZFS file system and configuration
• Familiar with installation and configuration of RedHat Enterprise Linux
• Worked with Red Hat Linux Kickstart process
• Worked with Security Technical Implementation Guides
• Knowledge of Microsoft Active Directory and configuration

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the UNIX systems engineer position.

In the previous role, I was responsible for significant input and authorship of the Technology Refresh Plan, and the Capacity and Demand Management Plan for the environment's Linux/UNIX area, in accordance with the Technology Target Architecture, and in collaboration with the Government Engineering team, Enterprise Operations team, and fellow contractor engineers.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Configuration and administration of EMC PowerPath, MPxIO, SAMBA and Sharity
• Highly experienced installing and configuring hardware models from HP Blades and Chassis
• Experienced and familiar with bulk OS patching
• Experienced leading and resolving escalated issues
• Experienced with performance monitoring and capacity planning
• Vendor escalation and management
• Enterprise RISC based Server Systems Administrations (Power and SPARC)
• Enterprise x86 based Server Systems Administrations (Intel Architecture, multi vendor Blade systems)

In response to your job posting for UNIX systems engineer, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

In my previous role, I was responsible for support for acquisition, installation, maintenance, and administration of large enterprise SAN, NAS & enterprise Backup environment.

I reviewed the requirements of the job opening and I believe my candidacy is an excellent fit for this position. Some of the key requirements that I have extensive experience with include:

• Require frequent interchanges with the customer to determine customer needs and ensure what is implemented meets those needs
• Design, develop and maintain features
• Collaborate with other team members to determine, support, and qualify future requirements
• Good knowledge and experience of protocols (TCP/IP, sockets, and RPC)
• Experience with management and troubleshooting Enterprise Linux (RHEL/SLES) servers
• Strong understanding of patching and applying changes to systems, including communicating schedules with application teams and various stakeholders
• Firm grasp of basic networking such as DNS
• Knowledge of Clustering such as Pacemaker or Veritas

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the UNIX systems engineer position.

In my previous role, I was responsible for necessary support to satisfy end users requests to help optimize the deployment of UNIX based systems within the corporation.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• AIX, Solaris and Oracle Database familiarity
• Experience working with LDAP / Active Directory
• Experience working in Virtualized environments such as VMWare and libvirt/KVM
• Background in hardware and data center activities
• Requires Bachelors (CompSci/Acct/Stats/Math/rltd) & 8 yrs
• IT support, networking, end user computing policies & procedures
• Unix & Linux servers, LAN/WAN, AIX, JFS2, RHEL/SLES, ext2/ext3, NFS, samba, bind & DNS, DHCP Server, FTP/VSFTP, GPG/PGP, NTP, sendmail, syslog & syslog-ng, TCP/IP, Operation of Power & Intel servers, IBM products p-Series (p570/740/770) servers, DS series (DS4800, DS8000), XIV storage, TS3300 series tape libraries, VIO, LPARs, HMCs, IBM Director, RPM Packaging Manager, NIM, shell scripting (bash, PERL, AWK & SED), mksysb & NetBackup, HACMP sftwr, GPFS, Workload Analyzer, Adv
• Scripting knowledge with Bourne\Korn shell, Perl, Ruby and Python

In response to your job posting for UNIX systems engineer, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

Previously, I was responsible for concerns to Tier III support engineers in order to implement best practices and support enterprise infrastructure service standards.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Understanding of Oracle, Sybase and other Database platforms
• Understanding of Storage Area Network
• Database Administration (MySQL preferred)
• Web Server Administration (Tomcat, Apache, Nginx preferred)
• Wowza Media Server and /or Adobe Flash Media Server
• CDN technology and distribution
• Configuration of DNS, WINS, DHCP and VPN
• Motivated, passionate technology driven individual with a focus on process improvement, technical support and analytical thinking