Senior Technical Writer - Isovalent

Cisco; Brussel Hoofdstad; Sur place; EUR 60 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Cisco is seeking a Technical Writer to create, update, and maintain documentation for Isovalent's Enterprise Platform and Hypershield, covering developer and user guides, tutorials, and reference materials.

You will work closely with engineering, solution architects, marketing, and product teams to ensure accurate, accessible documentation that accelerates user onboarding and product adoption.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Technical writer for Enterprise products.
• Experience in networking, security, and Cloud Native technologies.
• Experience in writing user guides and enterprise documentation.

Responsabilités

• Contribute to technical documentation for Isovalent's Cilium and Hypershield, including operational documentation, training, and guides.
• Collaborate with engineering and solution architects to create high-quality technical content.
• Conduct reviews and surveys with customers to understand how documentation and the information architecture can be improved.
• Share best practices with maintainers, the product development team and the community, building a culture of documentation.

Connaissances

Technical writing

Networking

Security

Cloud Native

GitHub

Markdown

Sphinx

Hugo

ReadTheDocs

Outils

Sphinx

Hugo

ReadTheDocs

GitHub

Git revision management

Markdown

Description du poste

The Technical Writer is responsible for creating, updating and maintaining Isovalent Enterprise Platform and Hypershield documentation as a whole, the main part of it being developer and user documentation. You will be at the forefront of our users' experience for both open-source Cilium and our enterprise offerings, making the most technically advanced Kubernetes networking product on the market accessible through first-class documentation. The Technical Writer works closely with multiple teams: engineering, solution architects, marketing, product management, release management, and community. The documentation covers initial concepts of technology and product, getting started guides, tutorials, reference documentation, operational guides, as well as best practices.

What You'll Do

• Contribute to all technical documentation efforts for Isovalent's Cilium distribution and Hypershield, including operational documentation, training, and guides.
• Work closely with engineering and solution architects to create high-quality technical content.
• Conduct reviews and surveys with customers to understand how documentation and the information architecture can be improved.
• Share knowledge on documentation & developer content best practices with maintainers, the product development team and the community as a whole, building a culture of documentation in the community and at the company.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Technical writer for Enterprise products
• Experienced in networking, security, and Cloud Native technologies.
• Experienced in writing user guides, documentation and helping enterprise users

Preferred Qualifications

• Passion for writing high-quality technical content.
• Hands on experience with documentation frameworks such as Sphinx, Hugo or ReadTheDocs is highly preferred.
• Experience in GitHub and Git revision management
• Experience with leading user research to improve documentation is a plus
• Collaboration with engineering peers to jointly convert knowledge from a subject matter experts to high-quality documentation
• Understanding of markdown and restructured text.
• Excellent writing skills in English.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with us.