University Systems Engineer Assignment: Cover Letter and Job Ad

This assignment focuses on the role of a Systems Engineer, presenting a cover letter, a job advertisement, and a bibliography. The cover letter is addressed to an HR manager, expressing interest in a Systems Engineer position and highlighting the candidate's experience with Windows and VMware systems administration, virtualization technologies, and Linux. The job advertisement describes the Systems Engineer role at ABC, a technology company, outlining the responsibilities, required experience, and key skills. The candidate's experience includes system administration based on ITIL standards, managing Microsoft SCCM, Active Directory, VMware vSphere, and remote server administration. The assignment demonstrates the candidate's ability to communicate effectively, manage IT infrastructure, and apply technical skills in a professional context. The bibliography provides a list of references used in the assignment.

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Name of Student
Name of University
Author’s Note

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Cover letter
To:
(Name of the HR manager)
Human Resources Manager
(Organization name)
(Address of the organization)
Date:
Respected Sir,
I am writing to express my interest in the job profile of systems engineer in your
organization. Along with a formal background in systems engineering since March 2015 to
November 2018 combines with the knowledge gained from the job, I am looking forward to
transition into the advanced practices of systems engineer. I am confident that my skills as
well as background make me the best fit for the position of systems engineer in your
organization.
I am already knowledgeable regarding your organization along with the offerings made by
you. I would bring about my knowledge in managing as well as monitoring the installed
systems along with the infrastructure used by your organization. I would also ensure high lvel
of availability of infrastructure and systems within your enterprise.
I have few experiences which would make me an asset for your organization. I have 3 years
of experience with the windows or VM ware systems administration, few virtualization
technologies like VM war or V Sphere. I also have knowledge regarding the basis of Linux
especially the Red hat. Besides the technical knowledge I also have excellent communication

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skill along with good interpersonal skills. My core competencies include Windows Server
2008/ 2012/ 2016, Networks as well as basics of UNIX, VM ware as well as Hyper V,
practices of ITIL and terminology. My professional summary includes System
Administration on the basis of standards of ITIL along with maintenance, restore or backup,
up gradation, installation, change the requests, testing and configurations for Windows Server
2003, 2008, 2012 and 2016. I also have knowledge in supporting as well as managing
Microsoft SCCM, DNS/ DHCP, Active Directory, VMware vSphere 6, Symantec Endpoint
Protection. I also persist knowledge regarding performing remote administration of servers
with the help of RDP, DRAC and ILO. I have also managed as well as maintained MSCS
clusters and running applications that are critical for business as well as DB’S. I have
experience in identification of performance bottle necks in VM ware environment as well as
Wintel and hence undertake necessary steps for the purpose of restoring capacity and
performance. I have sufficient knowledge regarding the standards of IT security along with
the experience in IT security policy management and enforcing IT security.
Thank you for your consideration
Sincerely,
(Name of the Student)

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Job advertisement for system engineer
Job Title: Systems Engineer
Company Description:
ABC provides technology which helps in transforming the way people have been working
and living their lives. We are not just a technology company- we are people enterprise as
well. We aim in inspiring, challenging as well as respecting every employee involved with
our organization which numbered to around 100,000. We also provide them with numerous
opportunities for development along with growth that is unparalleled in nature.
Overview of role:
Experience: 3 years
Drive the business (networking products, solutions and servers) and work along with the sales
teams for driving the business of the Enterprise in the allocated business space, provide
solutions to the business and remove any sort of technical barriers.
Meet and attempt to exceed objectives of sales with the help of providing technical speciality
sales consulting in numerous opportunities which need a complex solution to the computing
requirements of a certain account.
Key responsibilities:
Deliver the sales targets
Experience in technical suctioning. We need team members who have the ability to design
solution across numerous workloads such as HANA, CLOUD and BIG DATA and some
more.
Provide business reports timely such as funnel, activity report and forecast.

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Bibliography
Stewart, K. A. (2016). Systems Engineer, Innovation Expert Share Menneken Award for
Scientific Research.
Unit, B. (2015). Corporate social responsibility.
von Solms, S., & Marnewick, A. (2019, June). Identifying Security Requirements Body of
Knowledge for the Security Systems Engineer. In IFIP World Conference on
Information Security Education (pp. 59-71). Springer, Cham.