Data Platform Engineer Cover Letter

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

In the previous role, I was responsible for consultative support to other teams working on data projects by reviewing code and supporting/advocating best practices.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Excellent coding skills in HTML, CSS, and Javascript/Typescript
• Experience with frontend frameworks
• Portfolio of responsive, dynamic, and intuitive UIs
• Experience conducting user experience studies
• In depth knowledge of scripting tools and configuration management software (Python, Powershell, Perl, Saltstack, .) to enable extensive automation of our products and technologies for provisioning and management of the systems
• Experience with web technologies, troubleshooting them as it relates to the OS and the network
• Informatica suite
• Experience with Big Data technologies such as Spark, Kafka and/or Hadoop

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the data platform engineer position.

In the previous role, I was responsible for proactive oversight for Tableau Server-based data source repository used as primary reporting layer for front-end developers.

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

• Solid software development skills in Java, C, C++, or Scala
• Be self-driven, take complete ownership of initiatives and make pragmatic technical decisions
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams of developers, QA and operations to execute deliverables
• Make-it-happen' attitude, the innate capacity for ownership and timely delivery of results in a fast-paced environment
• Experience in professional software development teams
• Expert/ Strong proficiency & working knowledge in automation framework such as Chef, puppet, Ansible, CFEngine
• Expert/ Strong proficiency & working knowledge in scripting languages such as python(preferable), ruby, java script, go
• Respond to, investigate and fix service issues, whether they are deep in the OS kernel or in the application code

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the data platform engineer position.

In the previous role, I was responsible for guidance for writing Spark jobs to ensure that data science code is optimized for production.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Understanding of Hadoop technologies (YARN, Hive, MR, Tez, Spark)
• Knowledge of REST APIs and experience integrating disparate systems
• Familiarity with data technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, and Cassandra
• Experience with distributed systems and data processing technologies
• Strong mathematical and/or computational background
• Knowledge of open source/industry standard data processing, storage, and serving technologies
• Advanced knowledge of Unix/Linux
• Advanced Linux Administration knowledge

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

In my previous role, I was responsible for direction and guidance on best practices to deploy Cobol code and reverse engineer the existing code to new modern staff.

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:

• Have experience with distributed systems and computing frameworks like Hadoop, Spark, Hive
• Experience building consumer facing high scale systems/services
• Experience building data pipelines that process massive data sets
• Significant real-world experience with Java
• Experience implementing machine learning algorithms is nice to have
• Experience with Python is also nice to have
• Experience building highly scalable solutions in data storage, real-time analysis and reporting for multi-terabyte data sets
• Expertise architecting and building large-scale data processing systems using Big Data technologies like Hadoop, Hbase, Spark, Storm, Kafka, Druid, Flink

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

Previously, I was responsible for guidance and recommendations in sessions with scrum team members to structure solution source code and design implementation approaches — emphasizing the need to optimize code that follows engineering best practices, and maximizes maintainability, testability and performance.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Strong operational architecture understanding of Hadoop, ElasticSearch and Kafka
• Deep understanding of Hadoop design principals and the factors that affect distributed system performance
• Sound understanding with Hadoop ecosystem products like HDFS, Hive, Tez, MapReduce, Spark, Storm, Pig, Oozie, and Zookeeper
• Hands on experience with automation tools like Chef and/or Puppet
• Proficient in Linux (CentOS / Redhat & Ubuntu)
• Proficient with Ansible
• Familiar with Atlassian JIRA and Confluence solutions
• Familiar working with Agile operations