Cyber Security Technical Writer

Job Title:

Cyber Security Technical Writer

Job Category:
Engineering and Technical Support

Time Type:
Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start:
Secret

Employee Type:
Regular

Percentage of

Travel Required:

None

Type of Travel:
None

CACI’s Agile Solution Factory (ASF) is hiring a Tech Writer for our cybersecurity team based in Ashburn, Va. Join this passionate team of industry-leading individuals supporting the Best Practices in Agile Software Development for the Department of Defense.

ASF programs thrive in a culture of innovation and constantly seek individuals who can creatively solve complex problems. The ability to adapt to change and work constructively with a technically diverse team regardless of geographical separated team is crucial. The ideal candidate should be an experienced, fast-learning, organized, and productive technical writer who can adapt to an environment running a mature Scrum-based Agile software development program.

The person who fills this position will embed directly within a cyber team and will be responsible for all documentation requirements.

• Technical project documentation, reports, brochures, manuals and training material documentation for a wide range of uses.
• Ownership of iterative updates to product user manuals, including graphics, formatting, editing, and the deployment of all material to production.
• Conform to all project standards to ensure high quality documentation.
• Manage project team documentation repository to ensure effective file management.
• Develop copy that adheres to best practice regarding document structure and logic flow. Excellent written and oral communications skills; must be able to interface effectively with SMEs and managers of all levels.
• Provide regular input to ongoing team workload estimation efforts
• Ensure completion of all committed documentation tasks in parallel with software code development with frequent refactoring and tuning of artifacts.
• Develop new and refine existing technical writing processes to enhance quality and productivity.

Required:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen, with or eligible for a government security clearance
• Excellent communication skills in English in written and spoken form
• 8+ years of demonstrated technical writing experience
• Strong written and oral communications skills
• Experience with desktop publishing, automated work processing and other digital information technology applications; particularly World Wide Web publishing online user guides
• Experience developing technical documentation in short iterations
• Expert in Microsoft Word, including template design and macro functionality
• Knowledge of document and repository management practices
• Ability to apply advanced principles, theories, and concepts, and contribute to the development of innovative principles and ideas.
• Experience working on unusually complicated problems and providing solutions that are highly creative and ingenious, exhibiting ingenuity, creativity, and resourcefulness.
• Periodically develops data which goes beyond existing boundaries of information in field.
• Acts independently to expose and resolve problems.
• Strong attention to detail and collaboration skills.
• Ability to interface with various groups as well as work independently
• Strong contextual understanding of technical terminology and extensive technical vocabulary
• Strong software development background, with a minimum of five (5) solid year experience in incremental software development projects using an Agile Scrum approach
• Understanding of all elements of the software development life cycle, including planning, development, requirements management, CM, quality assurance, and release management
• Highly responsible, team-oriented individual with very strong…