Our client in SAN JOSE, CA is seeking a SENIOR TECHNICAL WRITER with 8-10 years of experience and a passion for communicating along with expertise in turning complex technical concepts into concise, understandable end-user documentation for the target audience.
Excellent writing, organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills are crucial as this individual must represent the Technical Publications team at cross-functional meetings internally and interface with OEM customers externally on a regular basis.
Ideal candidate will have a broad writing experience with a very strong technical background, and feel comfortable operating in a fast-paced, dynamic, deadline-driven environment, working either with subject matter experts or directly from engineering documentation and source code, as required.
Considerable experience writing, maintaining, and illustrating the following types of documentation:
- Installation guides
- System administration and configuration guides
- Reference, developer, and API guides
- Technical application notes and knowledge base topics
- Quick reference guides and release notes
- Online help, wikis, and Web-based communities
Strong Experience in documenting switching and routing protocols is a MUST. Any experience with the following protocols is a highly desired: RIP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, VLAN, STP, RSTP and trunking
Experience with the following Technical Publications tools (or equivalent) is required:
Writing Tools
- Adobe FrameMaker and Acrobat
- Arbortext Epic (DITA)
- Microsoft Word
- HTML
- UNIX man page tools (nroff, xroff, troff)
For immediate consideration, please send us your current resume along with your work samples to raj@mindsource.com.
If you are not looking at this time, please refer me to any of your friends who would be interested in this opportunity. We have a great referral bonus policy!
