About the Role
The Spectro Cloud Documentation & Education team is seeking a Senior Technical Writer to create user-friendly content for their Kubernetes management platform, Palette. This role involves collaborating with technical teams to document software and create reference materials, diagrams, and how-tos. The position requires comfort with developer workflows and tools like git, Kubernetes, and command-line interfaces.
Responsibilities
- Create clear, in-depth how-to guides and feature documentation leveraging real-world scenarios, customer use cases, and product workflows.
- Conduct hands-on testing, experimentation, and independent research to gain deep product knowledge and document edge cases, limitations, and feature updates.
- Collaborate with product managers, developers, engineers, QA, and UX to gather and validate technical information and stay aligned with product roadmaps.
- Author technical blogs, release notes, and long-form content to explain product innovations and industry trends.
- Champion user-first documentation practices by advocating for accessible, inclusive, and task-oriented content.
- Define and maintain content standards, templates, and voice/tone guidelines for consistency.
- Mentor and support junior or mid-level technical writers, providing feedback and sharing best practices.
- Refactor and enhance documentation information architecture to improve content organization, navigation, and discoverability.
- Take ownership of high-impact documentation projects end-to-end, including planning, coordination, writing, and review.
Requirements
- Excellent communication skills.
- Ability to independently analyze technical features and create documentation.
- Experience in analyzing information architecture and restructuring content.
- 4+ years of experience as a technical writer.
- Experience with Docs-as-Code processes.
- Ability to coach and mentor other technical writers.
- Comfortable writing in Markdown.
- Comfortable using developer tools such as git, CLIs, Docker, and GitHub.
- Familiarity with containers and Kubernetes.
- Comfortable working in a remote setting and with a remote-first culture.
- Experience with infrastructure providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware).
- Comfortable creating diagrams and visual resources.
- Passion for learning and exploring new technologies.
- Cloud certifications, such as AWS cloud certifications (preferred).
- Experience with AI tools and workflows (preferred).
Skills
- git
- Kubernetes
- command-line interfaces
- GitHub
- containers
- Docker
- cloud providers
- Terraform
- Markdown
- Docs-as-Code
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- VMware
- AI tools
Location
- London, UK
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Remote
Experience Level
- Senior
- 4+ years
About the Company
- Spectro Cloud aims to make infrastructure boundaryless for the enterprise, from the data center to the edge and every platform in between.
- Spectro Cloud provides solutions that help enterprises run applications on Kubernetes, their way, anywhere.
- Established by a team of multi-cloud management experts and industry veterans with a track record of success.
- Spectro Cloud is at the forefront of multi-cloud management solutions.
- The team's commitment and strong backing from industry-leading investors drives Spectro Cloud's progress.
- Spectro Cloud focuses on delivering unmatched value that resonates with customers.
