Technical Writer

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Job Description:

Are you ready to be part of a cutting-edge cybersecurity project that is making a huge impact on the security of DOD/Intel community? If you’re interested in leveraging and honing your technical writing and reporting skills as a part of a program team that gathers, distills, and provides critical insights into cybersecurity vulnerability assessments of mission-critical government systems, we have the ideal role for you to start your new career path at Parsons!

As part of our team, you'll get to leverage your Technical Writing Skills (while continuing to learn and improve your skills alongside our subject matter experts), to perform comprehensive technical writing tasks within a team of Systems Engineers, Software Engineers, and Intel Analysts supporting DCO (Defensive Cyber Operations) activities. Technical writers get matrixed into Project Teams to perform cyber hygiene and vulnerability assessments on major weapons and space systems.

Our team maintains a strong focus on our people first, mission-focused culture, while ensuring we also maximize your work happiness. We sponsor regular engagement events, including monthly tech talks, monthly technical leadership training), access to free online video training in a variety of cyber and technical topics, and more! We leverage your future dreams and help select topics from our myriad of internal trainings, to build your customized career path to make Parsons the best place you've ever worked!

What You'll Be Doing:

• Revise and complete deliverables on schedule

• Maintain the current draft on the systems' Interlink SharePoint Page

• Ensure the Strategic Cybersecurity Programs (SCP) Evaluation Report's language is complete, consistent, and clear.

• Ensure SCP deliverables are developed using the most current SCP documentation standards

• Serve as a SCP documentation SME to the Evaluation Team

• Ensure all acronyms and abbreviations in the SCP evaluation Report are properly defined

• Attend all status meetings with the SCP PMO

• Communicate status, dependencies, risks and issues daily/weekly to the Evaluation Project Team Lead

• Keep internal Confluence page and Configuration Item (CI) Log updated with the latest revision and location of SCP Evaluation Reports

• Assemble Main Body and Annexes into Full Report

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

• 6 years experience in production and/or editing of technical documents to include specific experience in writing for non-technical audiences (relevant degree in science, math, information systems, or engineering can be substituted for up to two [2] years of experience only)

• Experience providing Technical Writing support within Engineering teams

• Experienced user of the latest release of Microsoft Office (or equivalent) products

• Additionally, in accordance with any particular task, the candidate shall have a combination of the following skills:

• Ability to consolidate technical inputs and analyses, and produce a logical, understandable document

• Ability to read and modify engineering drawings/specifications

• Ability to interpret, absorb, and synthesize large quantities of engineering or technical information for non technical readers

• Ability to enter technical studies, metadata, and data into relational databases

• Ability to upload content onto websites using COTS web authoring tools

• Ability to integrate existing graphics into documents using various COTS tools

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

• Experience with latest release of Microsoft Office

• Active TS/SCI + Polygraph

What Desired Skills You'll Bring:

• 10 years’ experience providing Technical Writing support within System Engineering teams developing system vulnerability assessments and evaluations

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM related field

INFESTED

Minimum Clearance Required to Start:

Top Secret SCI w/Polygraph

This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.

Our Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our diverse, intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.

Salary Range: 

$83,300.00 - $168,700.00

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the workplace. Diversity is ingrained in who we are, how we do business, and is one of our company’s core values. Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels for minority, female, disabled, protected veteran and LGBTQ+.

We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!