FLEX Technical Writer

Job description

This is a temporary position. 

Contract Technical Writer – Infrastructure Engineering Documentation

We are seeking a Technical Writer to join our team on a contract basis to develop high-quality, engineer-facing user documentation for our Infrastructure organization. This role is critical in ensuring our application teams have clear, concise, and user-friendly documentation to navigate our platform and services effectively.

Key Responsibilities

·  Develop, structure, and maintain technical documentation for engineers and application teams, ensuring clarity and usability.
·  Conduct value stream mapping exercises to understand end-to-end workflows and identify documentation gaps.
·  Engage with platform engineers, infrastructure teams, and application teams to extract and synthesize knowledge from various sources.
·  Develop user-focused guides, API documentation, runbooks, FAQs, and best practices tailored to engineering teams.
·  Ensure consistency and alignment across multiple documentation sources, making it easy for users to find and apply information.
·  Advocate for a user-experience-first approach to documentation, ensuring it is intuitive, well-structured, and actionable.

Qualifications

·  Proven experience in technical writing for engineering or infrastructure teams.
·  Familiarity with value stream mapping and user journey analysis to enhance documentation effectiveness.
·  Strong ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, concise, and structured content.
·  Experience documenting cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, DevOps tools, or platform engineering workflows is highly preferred.
·  Proficiency in using documentation tools such as Markdown, Docusaurus, GitHub, MkDocs, or similar.
·  Ability to collaborate effectively with engineers and technical stakeholders.

 

The pay range for this position is $40.81 to $69.62 per hour.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Washington Applicants Only: Employees will accrue 0.0334 PTO balance for every hour worked and eligible to receive minimum of 9 holidays annually.

FLEX opportunities offer coverage for medical, dental, vision, health care flexible spending account, dependent care flexible spending account, life insurance, disability insurance, accident insurance, adoption expense reimbursements, paid parental leave, 401(k) plan, stock purchase plan, discounts at Marriott properties, commuter benefits, employee assistance plan, and childcare discounts.  Benefits are subject to terms and conditions, which may include rules regarding eligibility, enrollment, waiting period, contribution, benefit limits, election changes, benefit exclusions, and others. 

Marriott HQ is committed to a hybrid work environment that enables associates to Be connected.  Headquarters-based positions are considered hybrid, for candidates within a commuting distance to Bethesda, MD; candidates outside of commuting distance to Bethesda, MD will be considered for Remote positions.

The application deadline for this position is 14 days after the date of this posting, April 14, 2025.

Marriott International is an equal opportunity employer. We believe in hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive, people-first culture. We are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis, such as disability and veteran status, or any other basis covered under applicable law.

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