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Dear Ms. Silva,
I am excited to apply for the Middleware Engineer position at Red Hat. With over 6 years of experience architecting, deploying, and optimizing middleware platforms across cloud and on-premises environments, I am enthusiastic about contributing to Red Hat's open source-first approach to resilient, scalable infrastructure. Your commitment to community-driven innovation and enterprise-grade middleware aligns with my professional values and technical focus.
In my current role at Globotech (São Paulo), I design and maintain middleware solutions using Red Hat JBoss EAP, Apache Kafka, and IBM MQ to support high-throughput financial services integrations. I led a migration from legacy WebLogic clusters to a containerized JBoss/Kubernetes platform, reducing average deployment time from 45 minutes to under 7 minutes and improving system availability from 98.6% to 99.92%. I automated CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitLab CI, introduced Helm charts and Operators for repeatable deployments, and implemented centralized logging and tracing with Elasticsearch, Fluentd and Jaeger, which cut mean time to resolution (MTTR) by 40%. I have strong experience with Java EE, Spring Boot, RESTful API design, TLS/mTLS security, and performance tuning of JVMs and messaging middleware.
Red Hat's mission to foster open, flexible solutions for enterprise IT resonates strongly with me. I am passionate about contributing to projects that prioritize interoperability and developer experience—whether by improving middleware reliability for critical business domains or by mentoring teams on best practices for observability and secure integration. My background working with cross-functional teams at large Brazilian banks and fintechs positions me to quickly understand customer requirements and translate them into robust middleware architectures that scale and reduce operational risk.
I would welcome the opportunity to discuss how my experience with JBoss, Kafka, Kubernetes, and automated deployment practices can help Red Hat continue to deliver dependable middleware solutions for enterprise customers. Thank you for considering my application; I look forward to the possibility of contributing to your team and the broader open source community.
Sincerely,
Fernanda Oliveira