Release Engineer Cover Letter

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

In my previous role, I was responsible for input into the design, development and implementation of systems automation and tooling for software engineering teams to achieve their goals.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Passion for automating, implementing process improvements and enhanced operational efficiencies
• Maintaining code repository , improve practices of branching and code merge
• Establish process control points and configure code repository/JIRA to custom needs of development team
• Experience of using tools to integrate best practices like static code analysis, automated unit tests and integration tests, code coverage analyzers, creation of sand‐box systems
• Nagios customisation
• Performs various patching related activities during System releases and
• Experience automating CI and CD process in Jenkins, Go CD
• Experience with multiple platforms and/or devices (Windows, UNIX/Linux, iPhone, Android, MacOS, Windows Mobile, ) – Bonus if it’s mobile testing!

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

In the previous role, I was responsible for engineering expertise, and coordinate other discipline engineering resources deployed into the project, for the development of engineering deliverables within the Mills & Hydro area.

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

• Experience managing the Atlassian suite of products or comparable is an asset
• Experience using major relational databases
• Applicants should have experience administrating any of the common enterprise SCM tools (Perforce, TFS, GIT, Subversion, Mercurial, Clear Case)
• Should have firm understanding CI/CD tools and should feel comfortable identifying and resolving build breaks
• Should be comfortable with either Powershell, Python, Groovy, MSBuild, GoLang
• Automated build on check-in with integrated code-quality and unit test checks and reports
• Automated releases with appropriate Segregation of Duties practices
• Experience with iOS and Android builds preferred

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

Previously, I was responsible for guidance for build, QA, release or deployment teams during build issues debugging and triaging, and enhance related processes to prevent future build problems.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Have a wide range of knowledge of build and release processes, best practices, methodologies and basic development skills
• Comfortable with Mac, Unix/Linux and Windows operating systems
• Able to communicate well verbal, written and in presentation
• Experience unit testing in both programming and scripting languages
• Experience working with database migration
• Have a clear understanding of build and release processes, best practices, methodologies and basic development skills
• Basic experience unit testing in either programming or scripting languages
• Basic understanding of a binary repository

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

Previously, I was responsible for engineering expertise, and coordinates other discipline engineering resources deployed into the project, for the development of engineering deliverables within the electrical area.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Java Application Server (Jboss, tomcat or Similar) Experience
• Apache or related Web server experience
• Java Application Integration Knowledge, JMS and Web sphere Messaging Queue
• Java App Deployment Tools - ant and maven
• Chef or Puppet provisioning and automation experience
• Experience managing Linux and Windows systems
• Experience using the Atlassian suite of products or comparable
• Experience managing Solaris systems with zones is an asset

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

Previously, I was responsible for leadership and technical guidance within DDP/ Engineering Excellence and Release Engineering on tools development, automation, system stability, availability and overall release strategies and plans.

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

• Experience of working in Agile development environments (TDD processes), build and deployment
• Specialist experience with Gitlab source control
• Knowledge of configuration management including Branching, Merging and Hierarchies using Gitflow
• Expertise in Continuous Integration practices with Jenkins
• Strong development, programming and scripting skills gained across multiple technologies .Net, Perl and Python
• Experience in Linux systems administration, VMware data centres, Puppet and virtualization is essential
• PowerShell (ideally) or VBScript
• Basic TSQL abilities