Engineer, DevOps Cover Letter

I would like to submit my application for the engineer, devops opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In the previous role, I was responsible for hands on support for a variety of networking technologies including Riverbed WAN accelerators, Cisco IOS’s including XR, Nexus and others, Load balancers, Firewalls, a variety of Telco circuit technologies and related termination devices.

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

• Familiarity with "infrastructure as code" best practices using tools like Terraform and CloudFormation
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available environment
• Experience with source control management practices and tools, preferably with Git
• Configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible
• Continuous integration and build tools like Jenkins,Maven, Grunt
• Knowledge of container technologies such as Docker
• Knowledge of monitoring and analytics tools such as DataDog, CloudWatch, and Nagios
• Experience working with Android and iOS app development

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

Previously, I was responsible for support to the physical and virtualized infrastructure, to include the monitoring of infrastructure components, applying OS patches, and troubleshooting activities.

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

• Self-starter type of individual, willing to take on tasks and ask for help as needed
• Familiarity with Hadoop and MySQL is preferred
• Understanding of basic networking and common internet protocols is preferred
• Structured software development – writing efficient, supportable, and maintainable software using a structured programming framework
• Understanding and application of solid application life cycle management
• Understanding and proven application of Agile project methodology
• Articulating Business Value
• To contribute to the software development of the Barclays API Portals and Platforms, across the detailed design, build and unit test phases of the lifecycle

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

In my previous role, I was responsible for leadership and collaboration within a team to develop enterprise networking solutions leveraging routers, switches, load balancers, and firewalls components Scope, design and deploy solutions that scale to meet requirements and are easily supportable.

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

• Create and maintain documentation related to all mentioned activities in Confluence
• Evidence of stable, professional experience in a IT team environment with routine build and deployment responsibilities
• Previous experience administering a continuous integration build management pipeline using tools such as CodeShip, Bamboo, Elastic beanstalk and PipeLine
• The understanding and implementation of configuration management concepts and disciplines such as source code branching/merging strategies
• Experience with configuration management and automation tools – Salt, Docker, Vagrant, Capistrano and anything else in between!
• Understanding of Agile development, x-functional teams, continuous deployment and continuous integration
• Verbal and written communications skills to collaborate effectively with consultants, stakeholders/customers (from Developers to Managing Directors), peers, and vendors
• Languages JavaScript, PHP

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

In the previous role, I was responsible for break-fix Support for production issues with Load Balancers (LTM, GTM, ASM) as well as other components of Data Center.

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

• Experience with creating CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Bamboo, Go, etc)
• Experience using/creating build tools (maven, ant, rake, setup.py)
• BS in CS Science/Software Engineering or related
• Flexible on design and development decisions
• Understanding of Agile methods for project management
• Basic understanding of Active Directory and DNS
• Basic understanding of load balancing (F5 preferred)
• Basic understanding of an application tier (worker processes)

I would like to submit my application for the engineer, devops opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

Previously, I was responsible for input and own a share in delivering against the technical roadmap across all AWS infrastructure technologies.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• SDLC experience with Agile, Scrum, Kanban, secure development, peer programming
• VMWare vSphere or equivalent hypervisor experience
• Web API design best practices & microservices architecture
• Proficiency in MSSQL database administration and SQL scripting
• PCI, Retail or Financial industry experience
• Working experience with NoSQL databases in a high-performance environment (Cassandra, MongoDB, DynamoDB)
• Experience with highly available and high-performance web technologies
• Knowledge of continuous delivery and continuous integration methods and best practices