Senior DevOps Engineer Cover Letter

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

In the previous role, I was responsible for user Management and support for 1000+ users, manage system access across groups to ensure compliance, and maintain best practices.

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

• Advandes skills in an object oriented scripting language like Ruby or Python
• Knowledge in software development process at enterprise scale
• Expert knowledge and exposure to network protocols and tools for system side diagnostics
• Expert knowledge and exposure to secure communication tools and principles (ssh, ssl/tls)
• Knowledge of distributed systems development, tools, and designs
• Experience with commercial or open source monitoring systems
• Experience with automated host installation and configuration enforcement technologies
• Experience with Montoring and log analytics tools ( similar to elasticsearch, LogStash, Kibana, Grafana, Graphite, InfluxDB, Nagios, Cacti, Splunk, Zabbix) preferred

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

Previously, I was responsible for thought leadership and recommendations to management based on best practices and experience working in a global and diverse 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:

• Supporting existing infrastructure and applications
• Good Knowledge of Chef Best Practice development
• Good Knowledge of Ruby/Bash as scripting languages
• Automatic testing with Kitchen/Serverspec/Foodcritic/Rubocop
• Nginx, Apache, MySQL, Java, PHP
• Ruby, Perl, Python
• Chef, Ansible, Docker
• NewRelic, CloudWatch, nagios

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

In my previous role, I was responsible for consultation to teams on setting up testing frameworks and QA best practices into the release pipelines.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Experience with Terraform, Consul, Nomad
• Experience with Puppet/Chef/Ansible variant
• Experience with application and system monitoring
• Experience with Spinnaker
• Experience with Kubernetes or Mesos/DCOS
• Experience with Linux in a production environment, preferably kernel level depth
• Demonstrable experience in scripting in python / ruby
• Java and/or Scala development experience

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

Previously, I was responsible for design and implementation guidance and tutoring as necessary to team members in best practices, tool use, and quality assurance.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Experience with hosting applications in Cloud, and principles of elasticity using third party cloud technologies (Amazon AWS, Azure, CloudStack, Rackspace)
• Utilize configuration management to implement server infrastructure automation
• Manage developer and administrator accounts including on-boarding and off-boarding
• Implement security measures related to infrastructure and server access
• Deploy and manage production and development servers
• Manage sprint release and hot-fix processes
• Manage configuration management system and associated policies
• Translate Agile software development stories into tasks, estimate level of effort, and track progress on a daily basis

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

In my previous role, I was responsible for design, implementation guidance and tutoring as necessary to other team members in best practices, tool use, and DevOps principals.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Experience with automated systems provisioning (puppet, capistrano, chef, cfengine, rightscale)
• Strong understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery principles and practice
• Extensive experience with a public cloud provider, ideally Amazon Web Services
• Experience with automation and configuration management using Ansible, or an equivalent
• Source, build/release, and configuration management in a continuous integration & delivery environment
• Knowledge of best-practice security and networking techniques for an Internet-facing system
• Packer, Ansible, Docker
• NewRelic, CloudWatch, Monitis, Loggly