Vacancy title:
Senior Technical Author - Ubuntu and Canonical products
Jobs at:
CanonicalDeadline of this Job:
31 December 2022
Summary
Date Posted: Friday, December 16, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed
JOB DETAILS:
What you'll do
• Contribute towards the development of documentation as a professional discipline at Canonical and beyond
• Create, maintain and improve tutorials, how-to guides, reference guides and explanatory material
• Address the needs of users including developers, system administrators and end-users
• Use and explore the product in depth, to help discover where the documentation needs to be improved
• Review, road-test and improve practical guides
• Update reference and explanation material in collaboration with colleagues
• Improve and correct documentation based on feedback from users and technical support
• Read design documents and specifications
• Standardise the structure, presentation, style and language of content across products
• Actively improve documentation, through attention to practice, process, tools and users' needs
Our best candidate
• Has a solid and sustained track-record working with documentation in open-source contexts
• Has contributed to software products in depth, both as a coder and a documentation author
• Has demonstrably contributed to the advancement of software documentation practice, in their work or through participation in professional documentation communities
• Has software development experience in Python, JavaScript or other suitable languages
• Is familiar with application deployment, system operations, and infrastructure management
• Is qualified with a BS/BA or equivalent in Technical Communication, English, or Computer Science
• Has excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Has the ability to assimilate technical information rapidly from a variety of sources
• Has the character and flexibility to work in a fast-paced environment
• Is familiar with command line UNIX/Linux
• Is effective working in a distributed team
• Is confident using Ubuntu Desktop for all of the above
• Is familiar with Git or other version control systems
• Has knowledge of HTML and Markdown
• Is able to travel twice a year for up to two weeks for events
Job Experience: No Requirements
Work Hours: 8
Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
Job application procedure
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