Motivation Letter DevOps Engineer

A good motivation letter for DevOps Engineer connects a concrete personal experience with what the position actually requires - not a summary of the CV. Structure: salutation, a concrete reference to the position or company, a substantiated example from your own experience, an honest closing.

Example

Dear Ms. Egli When I joined my current employer two and a half years ago, a release took an entire Friday evening and was accompanied by hand by two people. Today, delivery runs through a GitLab pipeline, we deploy on average twelve times a week, and the average recovery time after an incident is 22 minutes. The hardest part was not the pipeline but the trust: the operations team had to let go of control, and development had to take on responsibility. Those conversations took longer than the technical work. Your posting describes a similar starting point with separated teams. I would enjoy taking this journey a second time, now with the experience from the first attempt. Kind regards

Common Mistakes

• DevOps is presented as a toolbox rather than a way of working
• No figures on improvement - deployment frequency and recovery time are the currency here
• Handling of incidents is left out, even though it will certainly come up in the interview
• Security aspects are missing, even though they are increasingly part of the role