Hi! My name is Keith Johnson, and I'd like to apply for your operations engineer position. I was referred to this job posting by one of your employees, and it seems like the perfect fit! Mozilla seems like a great place to work; when I work on side projects I always try to make them open source, and Mozilla's commitment to open source has always made me happy. I'm glad that you're all working to make the web a better place and I'd love to do my part.
My day to day job has been as a sysadmin for a university department, with the freedom to work with whatever technologies might benefit our students or faculty. I automated most of our infrastructure using ansible(previously chef and puppet) and have done a few projects working with Amazon Web Services. I have a passion for scripting and automation and find it to be a ton of fun. Not to mention I'm a quick learner and can wrap my head around a project rather fast and jump right in. Build tools and processes come naturally to me.
I'm hoping to work remotely from sunny Florida, and I think I've got the skills to do it effectively. I'm currently part of a few open source projects that involve developers from around the world so I have a little experience already with remote work. I know how to manage my time effectively and am pretty good at explaining concepts to others.(Did I mention I teach a sysadmin course to grad students at the university as well?)
Thanks in advance for your consideration, I hope to hear from you soon!
Keith Johnson