Senior Application Operations Engineer Cover Letter

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

Previously, I was responsible for technical and design guidance for systems that are reliable, massively scalable, highly available (100% uptime), and maintainable.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Web server administration experience
• Strong Application infrastructure/technical background with knowledge in Banking Domain application, Open Systems and information security knowledge
• Equipped with extensive programming experience in one of the scripting languages Python, Puppet or Shell
• Application infrastructure space like VMware, OpenShift Container Platform – PaaS & Dockers, Object store and open source stacks yet have traditional technologies will be preferred
• Related implementation experience on Blue/green deployment and Canary Testing is highly desirable
• On-hands experience in re-platform journey and production support is highly desirable
• Equipped with technical knowledge of RHEL, JBOSS, MariaDB, KAFKA, Active MQ, SQL, Shell scripting and Job scheduling
• Experience with Robotic Process Automation technology

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

In the previous role, I was responsible for technical and architectural guidance for systems that are reliable, scalable, highly available (99.999% uptime), and maintainable.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Familiarity with configuration management methodologies and software (Jira, Crucible, Fisheye, Mercurial, Subversion)
• Working knowledge with Oracle database technologies and SQL
• Experienced in debugging and troubleshooting Java application / processes using log data and data analysis techniques
• Experience Managing Windows, Linux or other *Nix environments
• Scripting/Programming Experience (Korn Shell, BASH, Powershell, Perl, Python, Ruby,Ansible,Chef,Puppet)
• Proficiency with AWS technologies (NAT Gateway, EC2, ALB/NLB, Cloudwatch, IAM, VPC, Route53 etc)
• Proficiency in deploying and supporting Docker containers on Kubernetes
• Hands-on experience with containerization and container orchestration

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

In my previous role, I was responsible for technical and architectural oversight for systems and projects that are required to be reliable, massively scalable, highly available and maintainable.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Experience working in a development, analyst and / or application support role
• Advanced exposure to broad technical skills such as Object-Oriented programming (JAVA), relational databases (data modeling/SQL), web UI (design and development), XML, application architecture
• Experience with web technology components such as Ant, MQSeries, Git, Maven
• Experience with Application Servers such as Tomcat, Web Logic, Websphere, JBoss along with databases such as Oracle or SQL Server
• Experience with heap dump/thread dump analysis
• Gain proficiency in components Guidewire InsurancePlatform, relevant technologies and diagnostic tools
• Fast learner that can think out of the box and come up with creative solutions, while multi-tasking and sharing knowledge/expertise among the team
• Experience working in a Knowledge Centered Service (KCS) methodology

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

In the previous role, I was responsible for guidance to development teams on a daily basis around operational best practice, AWS architecture and network.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Experience operating large scale data systems
• Gain proficiency in components of Guidewire Insurance Platforms relevant technologies and diagnostic tools
• Able to work in a highly collaborative team setting
• Experienced in Java development
• Familiar with configuration management processes and technologies
• Familiar with Data Warehouse and Data Mart concepts and processes
• Experience in supporting content workflows in an enterprise distributed environment
• Working knowledge of Linux OS and Java applications

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

In my previous role, I was responsible for product oversight for systems that are required to be reliable, massively scalable, highly available and maintainable.

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:

• Understanding of CI/CD pipeline design and management (Jenkins, Maven, Gradle)
• Strong experience in writing high quality code (Java, Python, or Go)
• Hands-on experience with Linux OS and strong understanding of unix internals
• Experience troubleshooting network related issues requiring generation and analysis of TCPdumps, and an understanding of TCP/IP protocol suite
• Strong experience in determining and implementing monitoring requirements
• Hand-on experience to config management system (boto/terraform, chef/puppet/ansible etc)
• Gain proficiency in components of Guidewire InsurancePlatform, relevant technologies and diagnostic tools
• Experience using AWS services like EC2, S3, Dynamo DB, RDS, Elasticsearch, Lambda and API Gateway