DevOps Engineer Cover Letter Template

Dear Hiring Manager, I’ve spent the last few years helping teams shave days off release cycles by tightening CI/CD pipelines and automating deployments. At [Previous Company], we reduced manual handoffs and improved deployment reliability, delivering changes to production within 30 minutes in most cases and significantly cutting incident response times. I’m looking to bring that same steady, practical approach to [Company Name]. I’m drawn to roles where collaboration between developers and operations is core. I routinely work with developers, QA, and security engineers to automate tests, containerise workloads, and manage infrastructure as code. I’m comfortable with Jenkins and GitLab for CI, Terraform for provisioning, and Helm for Kubernetes deployments, and I focus on making automation transparent for the whole team rather than a black box. One concrete example that still stands out: we integrated automated security and performance tests into the CI pipeline and started using containerised microservices with targeted Canary deployments. The changes trimmed rollout risk and improved mean time to recover after failures. It’s a practical balance of speed and stability, and it aligns with what you’re aiming to achieve across development and ops. I’m available for a chat to discuss how my background fits [Company Name] and the DevOps requirements. If you’d like, we can arrange a time to talk next week. Kind regards, [Your Name]