Programmer writer

2 weeks ago


Redmond, United States Aquent Full time

Our content team is looking for a Technical Writer to work on monitoring documentation and other related services.


Responsibilities include:

• Develop customer-focused content, articles and end-to-end solutions focusing on improving content quality.

• Collaborate with content, PM and engineering partners to identify and document content priorities and continually improve the content and drive great, real-world cloud solutions.

• Work with engineering teams to draw out technical information and turn it into customer ready content.

• Author the documentation and test/validate any samples that will be published to customers.

• Respond to reviewer feedback and incorporate feedback as needed.

• Deliver documentation according to specifications and priorities provided by content team.

• Use content team tools, process, and publishing guidelines to deliver high quality documentation.


Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of technical writing experience and/or experience creating technical, customer facing content (IT pro, DevOps, Developer).

• Preferred experience documenting cloud services.

• Self-starter who works well independently and with others.

• Strong written and verbal English skills.

• Experience or familiarity with markdown and GitHub is preferred.

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or Communications, or equivalent experience or equivalent work experience.


Top 3 Hard Skills Required + Years of Experience

1. technical writing experience - 5-7+ years

2. GitHub/Markdown 8-10+ years

3. Coding experience/comfort level - 8-10+ years