DevOps Engineer, Senior Cover Letter

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the devops engineer, senior position.

In my previous role, I was responsible for development and infrastructure engineering services in the use of Chef’s products, such as on-site customer installations, Chef training, cookbook development and usage, and development of custom code for customer migration or implementation.

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

• Enjoys collaborating with others to develop high-quality, maintainable software
• Comfortable using asynchronous communication mediums to express ideas and plans
• Strong knowledge of Linux fundamentals, Networking & Security
• Experience with build tools (ant, jam, maven, gradle) & deployment systems (bamboo)
• Experience with monitoring tools (nagios, cacti, sysdig, sensu)
• Experience with GitLab, Elastic Beanstalk, Python Scripting, Ansible, and node.js
• Demonstrable experience with DevOps tools like Maven, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, UrbanCode
• Solid understanding of Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing and Continuous Deployment principles

I am excited to be applying for the position of devops engineer, senior. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

Previously, I was responsible for support to development team in local development setup and infrastructure instantitation (Containers) background.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Experience in scaling process and tools to an Enterprise level
• BS in Computer Science or a closely-related related field
• Deep experience with DevOps tools/frameworks
• AWS experience including implementation, automation, consuming services, EC2 and VPC integration
• Maven, Nexus, AWS ECR
• Automated deployment framework
• Container technologies including Docker
• Hands-on experience with Splunk, AppDynamics, or ELK

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the devops engineer, senior position.

In my previous role, I was responsible for guidance on all aspects of software development including compliance with design frameworks, coding standards, optimization of development efforts.

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:

• Knowledge of email and communication systems and journaling (MS Exchange, Skype for Business) and OAuth Technologies, Azure
• Strong understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery concepts
• Experience with CI Engines (Jenkins, TFS)
• MS Azure platform
• Advanced understanding of DevOps best practices, approaches and methodologies
• Experience building and maintaining continuous delivery pipelines
• Experience in build automation, continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Hands on experience with Linux and Windows operating systems with exceptional troubleshooting abilities

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the devops engineer, senior position.

In my previous role, I was responsible for timely, world class customer service for requests from all customers including; software development, QA, sustaining and project management.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Knowledge of Bash and at least one more scripting language is preferred
• AWS, Azure, or Google public cloud experience in a production environment
• Strong skills in documentation and creating and maintaining Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), preferred experience in Confluence
• Working in either Scrum or Kanban work flows to manage tasks, and track progress
• A deep understanding of Virtualization, capacity planning, performance and recovery
• Strong skills with systems monitoring and alerting website monitoring and alerting
• Understanding of networking principles - basic routing, subnetting, Layer 2 vs Layer 3 basics
• Substantial experience automating things at scale with tools like chef, puppet, ansible

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

In my previous role, I was responsible for support to development of Workflows for Registration, Identity Lifecycle and Role Management, as well as integration of authorization workflows for CMS Applications in an Agile fashion.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Monitoring and alerting systems such as NewRelic, CloudWatch, nagios
• Experience with environment provisioning and operations management
• Proficient in administrating and supporting complex High Performance computing environments running on Linux and Windows clusters
• Hands on experience with configuration and administration of Job Schedulers like LSF, PBS
• Good understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, network routing, switching and Infiniband fabrics
• Should be fluent in automating complex manual tasks using Perl, Python and bash (at least one)
• Hands- on experience in developing cloud formation templates and configuring Autoscaling groups
• Highly experienced in troubleshooting production issues related to Application deployment, App/Web Tier, Java applications, DNS, Network