Senior Technical Author – Ubuntu and Canonical Products at Canonical Nigeria

Canonical is inviting credible applicants who are willing to partake in its ongoing recruitment to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Technical Author – Ubuntu and Canonical Products

Location: Lagos

 About Canonical: We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely, and more cost-effectively than any other company. We develop Ubuntu, the world’s most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000 contributors. Ubuntu means ‘humanity to others. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation. Together with a community of 200,000, we publish an operating system that runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world’s biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world’s most productive developers. Secure and reliable, elegant and intuitive, and open for innovation – Ubuntu is the future of open source, which is why it’s the fastest-growing Linux in the world despite already being the most widely deployed.

Job Requirements

• Is qualified with a B.Sc / BA or equivalent in Technical Communication, English, or Computer Science.
• Has a solid and sustained track-record working with documentation in open-source contexts.
• Has contributed to software products in depth, both as a coder and a documentation author.
• Has demonstrably contributed to the advancement of software documentation practice, in their work or through participation in professional documentation communities.
• Has software development experience in Python, JavaScript or other suitable languages.
• Is familiar with application deployment, system operations, and infrastructure management.
• Has excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Has the ability to assimilate technical information rapidly from a variety of sources.
• Has the character and flexibility to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Is familiar with command line UNIX/Linux.
• Is effective working in a distributed team.
• Is confident using Ubuntu Desktop for all of the above.
• Is familiar with Git or other version control systems.
• Has knowledge of HTML and Markdown.
• Is able to travel twice a year for up to two weeks for events.

 How to Submit Your Application

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