Senior Technical Author - Ubuntu and Canonical Products at Canonical Nigeria

Canonical - We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely, and more cost-effectively than any other company. We develop Ubuntu, the world’s most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000 contributors. Ubuntu means 'humanity to others. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation. Together with a community of 200,000, we publish an operating system that runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world's biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world's most productive developers. Secure and reliable, elegant and intuitive, and open for innovation - Ubuntu is the future of open source, which is why it's the fastest-growing Linux in the world despite already being the most widely deployed.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Technical Author - Ubuntu and Canonical Products

Location: Lagos

Description

• As a senior technical author, you’ll be part of an engineering team, focused on a specific Canonical product. 
• You will lead the team effort to create, maintain and improve documentation that serves the needs of the product's users, embracing the principles of the Diátaxis documentation framework. You will have a broad impact on - and responsibility for - the quality of the user experience with the product, and will contribute towards the long-term success of the project itself.
• As a senior technical author on the team, you will participate in development of product strategy. You will combine technical expertise with leadership in documentation, collaborating with colleagues across the company to establish documentation as a first-class engineering discipline. You will help define documentation excellence, in product, process and practice.
• You don't need to apply for this role as well as our Technical Author - Ubuntu and Canonical products post - please apply for just one of them. They are both handled in the same process, and there is absolutely no disadvantage in applying to one or the other. We will ensure that you are considered appropriately for the right position as part of the process.

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

• Is qualified with a B.Sc / BA or equivalent in Technical Communication, English, or Computer Science.
• 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.
• 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.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.