IT System Administrator Cover Letter

In response to your job posting for IT system administrator, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

Previously, I was responsible for technical leadership and management of data center, backup and disaster recovery of supported systems.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Expert in large scale multi petabyte environments along with trending and capacity management
• Able to drive project and guide team members
• Experience with TCP/IP, SMTP, sFTP, Active Directory, IIS, ASP, HTML, VBScript, Windows Scripting, and DNS services
• Knowledge of ticket queue management
• Alert Monitoring background in a 24x7 environment
• Familiarity with ITIL or Six Sigma
• Familiarity with Linux Virtual Server environments
• Has a good level knowledge of Windows, Linux and Solaris operating system commands and interfaces

I am excited to be applying for the position of IT system administrator. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

Previously, I was responsible for backup and recovery services; manage file systems and disk space; manage virus protection system and update virus definitions on a routine basis.

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:

• Use and administration of Solaris or other Unix variants
• Experience using NAS and SAN solutions
• Experience administering InfiniBand
• In Depth knowledge of Openstack infrastructure, architecture & support
• Experience in installation and configuration of Linux, Solaris or Windows in enterprise environment
• OEL certified / Sun Certified / RHCE / CCNA level knowledge on client OS is preferred
• Exposure and experience Cloudstack or Openstack would be added advantage
• Familiarity in Perl / Python / Apex programming along with Operating systems skills will be given preference

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the IT system administrator position.

In my previous role, I was responsible for user support for all workstations, including PC operating systems, virus scanning, data recovery, printing, communications software and other PC applications.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Understanding of Virtualization concepts – VMware, Xhen hosts
• Experience installing, configuring, and maintaining Linux desktops or servers
• Familiarity with automation using Python, Perl or shell scripting
• Abilities with other operating systems such as Windows, Solaris, HP-UX or AIX
• Database administration (Oracle, MS SQL Server)
• Software version control systems administration (eg
• Java stack
• Extensive experience installing and configuring Linux

I am excited to be applying for the position of IT system administrator. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

In the previous role, I was responsible for for system continuity by following backup and recovery processes and procedures to support recovery from hardware and application failures.

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

• Substantial experience using programming languages such as python and C
• Experience using SDKs
• Experience working with operating system virtualization solutions
• Experience using x86 and/or Sparc hardware
• Use and administration of configuration management and deployment tools such as puppet, nagios, chef, cfengine, pxe, openstack
• IaaS and NaaS
• Kickstart and Jumpstart configuration and administration
• Administration and configuration of code repository solutions such as GIT, SVN, or Perforce and related management solutions such as Jenkins

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the IT system administrator position.

In the previous role, I was responsible for backup and recovery services; manage file systems and disk space; manage virus protections on a routine basis.

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

• Significant Python skills
• Experience with SMTP, sFTP, IIS, ASP, HTML, VBScript, WSUS, Windows and DNS services
• Hands-on with Yum commands
• Exposure to backup, and patching tools/technologies
• Most recently worked with OEL/CentOS and Virtualization (OVS, VMware)
• Deep expertise in Unix/Linux systems administration of MTAs, web servers, load balancers and have through understanding and experience of DNS,SMTP and network and host security, and relevant protocols (SMTP, HTTP, SSL, DNS, NFS) mgmt
• Kickstart server experience, Linux repository maintenance, and rpm package creation/manipulation
• Mid to senior level programming/scripting in at least two languages (one any kind of shell