Technical Writer, Ceph Foundation (Contractor role)

The Ceph Foundation is seeking a Technical Writer to help strengthen and scale documentation for the Ceph open source storage project.

Reporting to the Ceph Foundation and working closely with the Ceph Steering Committee and project contributors, you will translate complex technical changes into clear, accurate, and maintainable documentation that supports both new, and experienced operators and contributors.

The ideal candidate is detail-oriented and structured, but pragmatic,able to build processes as they go and improve it over time. You’ll engage with a global open source community, build trusted relationships with engineers and maintainers, and continuously improve how documentation is created, reviewed, and released. The strongest candidates will bring a Linux systems administration background and a practical “learn by doing” approach to writing and tooling.

As the Ceph Technical Writer, you publicly represent and are responsible for the first impression potential users and potential contributors get from Ceph.

This role involves maintaining documentation process as part of the contributors’ guidelines, evaluating existing documentations, triaging documentation gaps, planning and executing large documentation initiatives, supporting, inspiring and facilitating contributors with technical writing skills, overseeing and amending documentation in pull requests and releases as well as joining Ceph-related events and projects.

Reporting Contractor will report to the Governing Board of the Ceph Foundation and shall fulfill any other duties reasonably requested in writing by Ceph Foundation and agreed to by Contractor.

Key Responsibilities

Main responsibility is to create and maintain Technical Documentation

Create and maintain technical documentation for Ceph administrators and operators, software engineers integrating with Ceph APIs, and upstream Ceph contributors.

Basic administrator level of understanding of Linux, cloud infrastructure, networking and distributed storage knowledge and the English language is assumed for using the documentation.

Ensuring the documentation is readable and grammatically correct the technical writer will have to elevate the readability of the base documentation that is delivered by contributors that have limited documentation writing and grammar skills.

Familiarization or knowledge with document writing tools.

Ensure the documentation is correct by hands on validation and/or collaboration with the upstream contributors.

Ensure the documentation complies with foundation documentation guidelines and style measured by the amount of corrections and reported bugs on documentation guidelines and style.

Oversee the documentation process and provide regular updates to the foundation on the overall quality and status of the project’s documentation.

Work closely with the Ceph Community Manager to lias to users,resolve gaps and inaccuracies in documentation.

Work closely with contributors and other community members to identify changes to Ceph that impact documentation

Ideal Candidate:

Proven experience contributing to an open-source community, preferably Ceph or a similar large-scale project.

Familiarization or knowledge with document writing tools Solid understanding of software development processes and distributed storage technologies.

Strong organizational and time-management skills; ability to manage competing priorities.

Demonstrated ability to motivate and coordinate volunteers and contributors across diverse teams and organizations.

Linux experience installing packages and configuring open source software Basic scripting experience with bash and python Solid understanding of documentation markup languages

Minimum two years of technical writing experience, 4 or more years ideal

Salary $70,000 USD

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