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Technical Writer

Skills
Developer ToolsGood Clinical PracticeGoogle Cloud PlatformMarkdownPublic AccessPublic CloudTechnical Documentation
Role

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