Networking Engineer Cover Letter

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

In my previous role, I was responsible for second/third level technical support for Enterprise Routing Protocols technologies to client customers, partners, account teams, and other Technical Assistance Center engineers for Cisco Catalyst Switching products.

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

• CCNA or equivalent certifications preferred
• Expertise in building high performance, highly scalable solutions, preferably for data
• Expertise in writing multi-threaded programs on real time operating systems
• Proficiency in C/C++, assembly language and scripting languages
• Strong understanding of L2/L3 network protocols, and Ethernet, TCP/IP, switching & routing
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and concurrent programming
• Strong understanding of computer architecture and experience in RTOS and bare-metal environments
• Hands on experience in designing, implementing, and debugging software for networking systems

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

In my previous role, I was responsible for subject Matter Expert (SME) and in-depth knowledge across multiple technical disciplines including, but not limited to, network routing/switching, monitoring/alerting, firewalls, IDS/IPS, and Network Access Control.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Familiarity with a variety of industry device CLIs and GUIs
• Understanding of Server/Switch/Storage hardware and OS (Windows, Linux)
• Basic understanding of Storage protocols
• Strong interpersonal, oral and written communication/presentation skills
• Familiarity with Storage, Networking, Servers, and/or NICs
• CCNA level networking knowledge
• CCIE level networking knowledge
• Automation experience (Ansible, Salt)

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

Previously, I was responsible for second or third line network level support for LAN Switching and Routing Protocols to Cisco Premium Customers, Partners, account teams and other internal technical support teams.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Advanced Troubleshooting of Data Center Solutions consisting of the following Cisco Unified Computing System, B and C Series Servers
• Master-level knowledge in Linux kernel internals and OS fundamentals, such as memory management, multithreading, locking, asynchronous event handling
• Proven expertise in troubleshooting and performance tuning kernel and hardware platforms
• Extensive development experience with Linux kernel subsystems, device drivers and open-source projects such as DPDK, Openstack, Open vSwitch, …
• Development experience in OS virtualization and containerization technologies
• Driver/run time environment development for GPUs or mobile devices and programming models such as like CUDA, HAS
• OpenCL 1.2/2.0/2.1, MapReduce, Spark or other stream or distributed processing platforms
• 10/40/100G datacenter networking (L2/L3), load balancing, routing and switching

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

In my previous role, I was responsible for technical leadership, technical consultation and operational support for all enterprise-wide IT voice and network infrastructure (eg: Routing, Switching and VoIP).

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Public and Private Cloud Solutions
• Excellent Network security (Identity) skills with focus on AAA, Dot1x, Macsec, Radius/Tacacs protocols, Guest management, BYOD, Trustsec, Switching, Firewalls
• Deep understanding of game networking systems and technologies
• Design and implement device drivers that are using HW accelerators for optimizing performance
• Add new networking functionalities used by networking applications
• Embedded application development, using C programming
• Solid knowledge and understanding of networking layers 3-5
• Experience with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), agile, and waterfall development

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

In the previous role, I was responsible for full-stack support of LAN and WAN network infrastructure with switching and routing expertise.

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

• Migrating VM's to the cloud
• Basic Cisco Firewall Administration
• Managing and operating Microsoft Exchange which is now all in Office365
• Managing Active Directory and Group policy
• Experience working with Hosted Platform Solution
• Cloud Computing and virtualization experience
• LAN/WAN design and implementation, operations, management, and security
• Certification and/or training in a leading virtualization technology such as VMWare is preferred