Technical Writer & Editor - III
Company: Farfield Systems
Location: Arlington
Posted on: March 18, 2023
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Job Description:
Farfield will assist the Federal staff within the Cybersecurity
and Infrastructure Protection Agency (CISA) Hunt and Incident
Response Team (HIRT), and National Cybersecurity and Assessment and
Technical Services (NCATS) branches, with a broad set of support
functions. The Hunt and Incident Response Team is DHS's front line
when responding to cyber incidents and proactively hunting for
malicious cyber activity. HIRT leverages world-class expertise to
lead response, containment, remediation, and asset recovery efforts
with its constituents and partners. HIRT provides two primary
functions to its customer. First, HIRT serves as DHS's primary
operations arm in the execution of the asset response mission
delegated to DHS. When any civilian Government agency or critical
asset owner operator experiences a cyber-attack, HIRT can provide
remote and onsite advanced technical assistance. Second, HIRT also
can be called upon to proactively identify malicious activity,
otherwise known as a "hunt", specifically focusing on identifying
threats from sophisticated threat actors that are often undetected,
and in situations beyond the capacity and capability of traditional
cyber security tools and techniques.*** Requires a Top Secret/SCI
clearance and U.S. Citizenship***Responsibilities:
- Developing and reviewing technical communications deliverables
including engineering documentation, operational procedures, plans,
action reports, and meeting minutes, coordinating with engineering
teams to obtain necessary input data.
- Preparing, reviewing, editing and maintaining program technical
documents including software and system engineering documents,
CONOPS, test reports, user documentation, implementation
documentation, etc.
- Creating, reviewing, editing and maintaining technical
drawings.Required Skills:
- U.S. Citizenship.
- Must have an active Secret clearance and be able to obtain a
TS/SCI clearance.
- Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability.
- 5+ years of technical writing experience including developing
communications deliverables plans, action reports, and meeting
minutes for internal and external cyber audiences.
- Experience with creating and maintaining information system
security documentation and SOPs.
- Excellent hands-on experience with Microsoft Office including MS
Word, PowerPoint and Visio or related tools. -
- Fluid technical writing and editing skills, including the use of
AP Style.
- Ability to research and analyze complex technical material and
break it down into concise, compelling copy that engages the
reader.
- Ability to work under pressure with clients, federal leads and
subject matter experts in a fast-paced cybersecurity
environment.
- Ability to capture meeting discussions at a rapid pace using
either shorthand and/or typing fast.Desired Skills:
- Experience working in a cyber or an IT environment
- Experience with creating technical briefings including executive
leadership briefings.
- Familiarity with cybersecurity communications language and
subject matter.
- Experience with software or agile development methodologies.
Required Education: -
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in
English, Business or related, or 7+ years technical writing and
editing experience with a high school diploma. -Powered by
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