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Posted 2 hours ago

Release Readiness Engineer / Technical Writer

at Defense Unicorns

United StatesRemote

Responsibilities

  • Plan, author, and maintain installation guides, admin/operator guides, troubleshooting/runbooks, and release notes (as needed) aligned to product releases and operational needs.
  • Plan, author, and maintain Warfighter focused end user guides.
  • Troubleshooting & runbooks: Build and curate troubleshooting-by-symptom runbooks (diagnosis steps, likely causes, resolution paths, and prevention guidance).
  • Aid development of training modules and job aids for user personas.
  • responsibilities are not exhaustive and additional

Requirements

  • As a release readiness engineer and technical writer, you will develop and evolve the operator- and administrator- customer-facing documentation for UDS capabilities, enabling Warfighters and system administrators in installation, administration, operational runbooks, SDKS, and training content designed for airgapped environments.
  • Operate in a Git-based doc workflow (issues/PRs/reviews), establish templates,, and improve/maintain documentation.
  • Experience working in environments with higher operational rigor (airgapped, disconnected/limited connectivity, regulated or government contexts) preferred.
  • Strong collaboration skills with engineering and delivery teams; able to drive clarity, obtain technical decisions, and keep docs aligned with shipped behavior.
  • Proficiency with Git-based documentation workflows and modern docs toolchains (Markdown, static-site docs frameworks, review cycles, issue tracking).
  • experience delivering technology programs across the federal market. What We Do
  • We proudly support defense and civil agencies across the U.S. government and we work closely with the creators of leading-edge software solutions to deliver value to the mission-owner by improving the security and consumability of commercial software products. What We Work On Kubernetes
  • Cloud Environments (AWS/GCP and Azure)
  • Infrastructure-as-code (like Terraform/Pulumi)
  • Building Kubernetes and cloud native applications

Experience

  • 4+ years writing technical documentation for software platforms (DevSecOps, infrastructure, Kubernetes-adjacent systems strongly preferred).

Benefits

  • Full compensation packages are based on candidate experience.
  • Compensation ranges are established using national benchmarking data and apply across all geographic locations within the United States.
  • Remote - USA $123,250 — $166,750 USD Who We Are
  • We share a vision of freedom and security for the advancement of progress and innovation.
  • Our commitment to this vision, and to our mission-driven customers, means a commitment to speed, user
  • Medical/Dental/Vision
  • Premiums are 100% Company Paid
  • Health Savings Account Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance Financial:
  • 401k Retirement Plan
  • Home Office Budget Leave:
  • We offer all full-time Unicorns Flexible Time Off (FTO) plus all Federal Holidays, one week for Thanksgiving, and two weeks for Christmas and New Year’s
  • Paid Parental Leave Learning:

Additional details

  • EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THIS POSITION REQUIRES U.S. CITIZENSHIP. Role Description:
  • This role collaborates with Product, Engineering, and Delivery to translate system design and implementation details into clear, validated guidance that customers can use to deploy, configure, operate, and troubleshoot UDS.
  • This role includes writing documentation to be used by Warfighters on airplanes, ships, and ground vehicles!
  • Installation & deployment documentation: Create step-by-step install/configuration guides for product components and integrations (including prerequisites, expected outputs, verification steps, and safe rollback guidance).
  • Administration & Day-2 operations: Document operational workflows: upgrades, configuration changes, health checks, resource considerations, and common operational failure modes in constrained/mission environments.
  • Information architecture & discoverability: Organize technical documentation so it’s easy to navigate and avoids duplication across products
  • Travel Expectations: 4-12 times per year The listed
  • responsibilities may be assigned based on the evolving needs of the organization. We are seeking a dynamic individual who is able to adapt and take on new responsibilities as they arise. Preferred Experience and
  • Demonstrated experience producing: Installation guides
  • Comfortable documenting complex workflows; able to interpret design docs and technical specs and convert them into guidance. •

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