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Job Summary:
Render Security Engineering, LLC specializes in unraveling the complexities of IT systems to enhance security and ensure interoperability. They are seeking a Technical Writer II to support the Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC) in various documentation and technical writing tasks within a fast-paced program.
Responsibilities:
• Research, draft, edit, format, and maintain technical documentation, including technical manuals, standard operating procedures, system administration guides, installation and configuration guides, engineering reports, test plans, user guides, training materials, white papers, and technical briefings.
• Collaborate with engineers, software developers, cybersecurity professionals, logisticians, program personnel, and other subject-matter experts to gather, validate, organize, and document technical information.
• Translate complex technical concepts, engineering terminology, software functionality, system configurations, and operational procedures into clear, accurate, and user-focused documentation.
• Develop and maintain technical data packages, configuration-management documentation, engineering-change documentation, technical directives, system specifications, and related program documentation.
• Review and edit documentation for grammar, consistency, readability, technical accuracy, completeness, and compliance with customer requirements, applicable military standards, and organizational style guides.
• Maintain document repositories, revision histories, document baselines, and version-control records.
• Coordinate document reviews, comment adjudication, approvals, revisions, publication, and distribution.
• Ensure technical documentation remains current with approved system configurations, engineering changes, software releases, and operational procedures.
• Support the development of graphics, tables, diagrams, screenshots, and other visual content used in technical publications and presentations.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Minimum of three years of professional experience in technical writing, technical editing, documentation development, documentation management, or a related field.
• Active Secret clearance
• Experience developing, editing, and maintaining technical documentation for complex systems, technologies, software applications, engineering efforts, or operational processes.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical information into clear, concise, and accurate documentation for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Adobe Acrobat, and document collaboration or repository platforms such as Microsoft SharePoint.
• Strong written and verbal communication, proofreading, editing, research, organizational, and analytical skills.
• Ability to manage multiple documentation assignments, meet deadlines, maintain attention to detail, and work independently or as part of a cross-functional team.
• The qualified candidate must be a US Citizen with an active/current DoD Secret Clearance or ability to obtain and maintain.
Preferred:
• Bachelor’s degree in English, communications, technical writing, engineering, information technology, or a related discipline is preferred.
• Relevant technical-writing or documentation experience may be considered in place of a degree, subject to contractual labor-category requirements.
• Ability to interpret technical specifications, engineering drawings, network or system diagrams, software documentation, test results, and operational procedures.
• Working knowledge of document lifecycle management, configuration-management principles, version-control practices, and formal document review and approval processes.
• Experience preparing documentation in accordance with military standards, data-item descriptions, contract data requirements lists, customer templates, or organizational style guides.
• Experience working in a configuration-controlled engineering or software-development environment.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity documentation, Risk Management Framework activities, system-security documentation, or technical security requirements.
• Experience supporting Agile development, systems engineering, test and evaluation, or software-release processes.
Company:
Render Security Engineering is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) delivering embedded and consulting-style Information Technology (IT) security engineering services to military and commercial clients. Founded in 2018, the company is headquartered in California, USA, with a team of 11-50 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.