Job Description - Thoughts?

[Lucy Draughn <ldraughn7 -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Hi there,

I came across this job description for Tech Writer/Technical Marketing
Engineer. Anyone else think itâs biased?

About You:

   - Facility with technology:
      - Youâre curious, not afraid to be hands-on with the products, and
      you can empathize with the challenges our customers face.
      - Expert level understanding routing, switching, and fabric
      technologies for Data Center networking
      - Hands-on experience configuring routers, switches and firewalls
      - Experience in virtualization platforms (e.g. OpenStack) or
      container environments (e.g. Kubernetes) is highly desirable
   - Know the craftâYou like writing more than you like doing anything else
   and you have an innate ability to think like and write for administrators.
   You see every feature and task as part of a broad scenario, and interested
   in not only how something works, but also when and why to use a particular
   configuration/setting.
   - InnovationâYou are creative, and love to experiment with new ways to
   present information in a way that enables a positive user experience with
   our products.
   - OrganizationâYou can take large amounts of technical details and
   organize them into topics that users can easily find and use to solve
   their network problems.
   - InitiativeâYouâre not afraid to propose changes to improve process and
   quality to enable a better customer experience and you are relentless in
   hunting down the information you need.
   - Interpersonal skillsâYou are able to work with developers, QA, PMs,
   customers, SEs, and support to successfully gather information required to
   understand the problems our users are facing and the ways our products help
   to solve them.
   - Problem solving skillsâYou have strong critical-thinking skills and
   use them to ensure that you are providing just the information our users
   need to complete the task at hand.
   - AdaptableâYou can handle a rapid release model and adjust easily to
   new or changing circumstances.

Qualifications:

   - Must have expert level knowledge of networking, network protocols, and
   APIs. Having a CCNA/JNCIA certification is desirable.
   - Ability to see the big picture and proven track record of writing from
   scratch.
   - Writers/Engineers with proven experience of documenting Solution
   documentation, App Notes, Whitepapers, Configuration documents and API docs
   .
   - Proficiency with FrameMaker, Adobe Acrobat Pro, Help N Doc, and image
   editing tools is desirable.
   - HTML experience is desirable.
   - Familiarity with Bugzilla (bugs) and Confluence (collaboration) is
   preferred.
   - Ability to work independently or with minimal supervision. Experience
   working in a startup environment is a strong plus.

Thanks!

Lucy
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