Engineer, Infrastructure Cover Letter

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

Previously, I was responsible for guidance to senior management on ISTE technologies, best practices in regards to security technologies.

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:

• DNS/ENUM and Dialing Plan
• Experience with VoIP networking and technical proficiency in LAN/WAN architectures
• Proven Exp in Linux, Red Hat, Virtualization, kvm, python, bash, chef, Open Stack, Softlayer, Network and Storage administration, RTC, GIT, devops, agile
• Experience of security standards, best practices and principles
• Demonstrate engineering excellence in the design, systems management, patching, deployment, troubleshooting, and performance tuning for Linux based operating systems
• Automate patching and deployments using the latest technologies (Ansible Tower, Red Hat Satellite, Puppet)
• Current Red Hat Linux certification (RHCE or above) or equivalent Linux variant qualification
• Experience of SAN technologies - CISCO UCS and/or VCE vBlock is preferred

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

Previously, I was responsible for direction and oversite to the centralized IT operations team, and implement best practices for monitoring and managing operations.

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

• Working with the 3rd party providers, during project initiation, implementation, service transition and BAU services
• Providing technical support as appropriate for the services provided
• Knowledge of CDN & Edge Serving and caching solutions would be an advantage
• Akamai portal and API knowledge would be an advantage
• Experience of working within a retail business
• Experience of application integration, network, storage and databases
• Experience of working with external hosting providers
• Experience of cloud Architecture and technologies including administration

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

In my previous role, I was responsible for security guidance and oversight to engineering and operational teams by participating in design reviews and threat modeling for Linux OS, AWS and related web application security.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• System Management Systems (SCCM, HP SIM, McAfee)
• Knowledge of cloud services integration
• Create and drive strategies, roadmaps and standards, define and deliver process improvement opportunities and provide architectural and design expertise to operational and project teams
• Have hands on technical skills and experience to support infrastructure operations including virtualisation, operating systems, directory services, Certificate services, load balancing technologies, cloud services
• Implement solutions based on cloud service delivery models such as SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS
• Expertise with current Microsoft server and client operating systems
• Experience with core Microsoft functions, active directory, IIS, message queueing
• Experience with SQL Server administrative functions, tables, table relationships, view and store procedures

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

Previously, I was responsible for top tier technical support to Operations on all security and application related networking issues on our owned environment.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Basic understanding of LAN networking (TCP/IP, UDP, IPv4 and IPv6)
• Experience automating systems deployments and config management
• Familiarity with Unix/Linux CLI
• Experience in Linux administration and Linux based programming
• Master Bash programming and at least 1 scripting language of Python, Ruby or any other
• Basic network configuraiton
• English and Communication
• Configuraiton management development based on Chef

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

In my previous role, I was responsible for leadership and guidance to your peers and colleagues on the engineering team related to security, coding conventions and best practices, use of Docker and testing frameworks and more.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Experience with Windows client performance & monitoring analysis toolsets
• VMWare administration and updating
• Cisco Wireless (Wi-Fi) equipment
• Hands-on experience in troubleshooting general hardware including Servers, LAN Switches, VOIP, Mobile Devices
• Knowledge of current protocols and standards, including TCP/IP Stack, BGP, and MPLS
• Application support experience with Exchange, VMWare, Active Directory, SQL, Solar Winds, EMC Storage
• Active directory design, implementation, troubleshooting (including DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, authentication, trusts, mixed client integration (Windows, Linux, Apple)
• Patches to Windows servers and client operating systems, ensuring minimal issues by proper testing