Technical Writer
Skills
Developer ToolsGood Clinical PracticeGoogle Cloud PlatformMarkdownPublic AccessPublic CloudTechnical Documentation
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Excellent communication skills both written and oral
- Self-starter with the ability to dive into technical features by themselves and create documentation
- Capable of analyzing information architecture and restructuring content
- Able to coach and mentor other technical writers
- Capable of delivering quality content while meeting task deadlines
- Comfortable writing content in markdown
- Comfortable using developer tools such as git CLIs Docker and GitHub
- Familiar with containers and Kubernetes
- Comfortable working in a remote setting and with a remote-first culture
- Experience with at least one public cloud provider (AWS Azure GCP Oracle)
- Comfortable creating diagrams and visual resources to help the learning process
- Displays a passion for learning and exploring new technologies
Nice to have
- Highly technical Adaptability
- Problem-solving mindset
- Automation experience
- Collaborative teamwork
- High performance
Day to day
- Help the technical writing team improve writing practices and champion technical documentation
- Manage the backlog for your assigned engineering tracks and create reference material diagrams and how-tos for our practitioners
- Play a key role in improving the existing documentation and shaping the future of the docs platform including its content
- Regularly interact with virtual machines Kubernetes containers Linux Terraform git JavaScript markdown CLIs on-prem platforms and public cloud providers
Hiring process
- Screening interview
- Technical interview with writing assignment
- Writing and information architecture discussion
- Culture and team fit interview