Senior Technical Writer

Cloudera

(Austin, Texas)
Full Time
Job Posting Details
About Cloudera
Cloudera delivers the world’s fastest, easiest, and most secure platform for data management and analytics, built on Apache Hadoop and latest open source technologies.
Summary
Are you a talented, experienced technical writer who loves to write about highly technical subjects and is known for your excellent technical writing skills? Are you customer orientated and passionate about making sure your documentation helps your customers successfully do their jobs? Would you like to work at a rapidly growing company with smart, hardworking, and friendly software developers? Cloudera is looking for an excellent technical writer who can write high-quality documentation that enables our customers to use Hadoop and Cloudera applications to manage large data clusters. If you enjoy solving the puzzle of how to present complex, technical information in comprehensive, well organized, and easy to understand documentation, then this is the job and company for you.
Responsibilities
* Write content for Hadoop security, including industry standards such as Kerberos and LDAP, TLS, Cloudera Navigator Key Trustee Server, Cloudera Navigator Key HSM, Key Trustee KMS, and the Apache Sentry open source framework. * Write content to help customers apply security to Hadoop clusters in the Cloud. * Write content for encryption key management software. * Write How To articles, tutorials, security guides, and administration guides for Linux-based Hadoop. * Develop How To videos.
Ideal Candidate
**Required Skills:** * Excellent writing and editing skills. You must have 5 or more years of experience writing installation guides, user guides, system administrator guides, or run books for technical audiences such as database administrators, system administrators, or data cluster operators. * Experience documenting SQL database products. * Experience documenting security for enterprise-level software * Experience using Linux (Red Hat Enterprise, Ubuntu, or SUSE). * Knowledge of typical IT or data cluster job tasks, or better yet, experience doing them. * Excellent communication and teamwork skills, along with the ability to adapt to various methods of obtaining information from subject matter experts. * Ability to be flexible and to adapt to changing responsibilities, situations, tools, and requirements. * Ability to learn new technical subject matter quickly. * Ability to work as a self-starter who can work in a fast-paced and collaborative work environment with minimal supervision. * Ability to work across time zones with distributed teams. **Strong Pluses:** * Experience with Hadoop or Hadoop-related projects. * Experience using and documenting Apache Sentry * Experience documenting Cloud products. * Experience with python, scala, and groovy * Experience documenting management applications such as Oracle Enterprise Manager, MySQL Enterprise Monitor, or VMWare vCenter. * Experience documenting or using open source products. * Experience using an XML/DITA authoring tool such as oXygen XML for writing documentation. * Experience using GitHub. * Experience creating videos for documenting products, or interest and ability to learn how. * Experience working in an agile-style development environment. * Writing samples and references are required

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