About the Job
The Red Hat Customer Content Services team seeks a Technical Writer to join our OpenShift Virtualization product documentation team. In this role, you will be part of a team developing and delivering content promoting Red Hat’s customer success. Drawing from your passion for technology and communication, you will create and be responsible for customer-facing technical documentation for Red Hat products.
Work closely with content strategists, DPMs, engineering teams, support teams, and other stakeholders to create and maintain accurate, high-quality documentation for desired audiences within the scheduled timeline.
Actively participate in feature meetings to stay on top of developments and to advocate for the user
Respond to customer feedback to address content gaps and promote continuous improvement of the documentation experience
Collaborate across various writing teams to help improve processes for content creation, delivery, and maintenance
Provide feedback and mentor other technical writers to improve the quality and consistency of our content
Keep up to date on changes to our toolchain, versioning systems, offerings, customer use cases, support issues, and business strategy
Ability to independently conduct research and collaborate with technical and subject matter experts to produce and improve documentation
Ability to understand and explain complex technical concepts concisely
Proficiency in modular authoring and version control systems
Experience with software and documentation development life cycles
Experience writing documentation to meet accessibility and usability requirements
Experience using a writing style guide
The following are considered a plus:
Knowledge of open source philosophies and Red Hat products
Experience with lightweight markup languages such as reStructuredText (RST)
Hands-on experience with Linux
Hands-on experience with Git
Familiarity with agile software development
We expect you to only meet some requirements to join our team. We will help you build around your strengths, and will provide opportunities for you to grow your skills.
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About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterpriseopen source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact.
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