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Senior Technical Writer

Senior Technical Writer

RaiseToronto, Ontario, Canada
5 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Location Address : Scarborough, ON (there is some flexibility to WFH if preferred), but this may change to 2-3 times / week – strong preference for candidates in GTA

Contract Duration : 1 year Possibility of extension & conversion to FTE

Schedule Hours : Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm

Best vs Average

  • Experience in Cyber security & Law enforcement - Public speaking

Story Behind the Need

  • Business Group : Security Incident management and response.
  • Project : Spearhead the creation and improvement of technical documentation such as processes, procedures, and investigative response capability
  • Candidate Value Proposition

  • Exposure to technical areas such as incident response, critical investigations, cyber security breaches. Help improve documentations and better respond in the future.
  • Typical Day in Role

  • Creates diagrams, charts, and other visual aids to assist readers in understanding a product or process.
  • Gathers feedback from business partners, internal technical team and vendor to improve technical documents.
  • Ability to take existing and potential content and improve it
  • Convert complex documentation to easy language for multiple audiences
  • Writes and edits technical documents including reference manuals and product manuals which may include screenshots and tutorials
  • Plans writing processes and sets timelines and deadlines.
  • Recording meeting minutes for Incident Response calls and team meetings, as needed.

    Candidate Requirements / Must Have Skills :

  • 8+ Years of experience in technical writing, 5+ Experience in SharePoint, Visio
  • Creating and designing a knowledge base for practical use of all Cyber security project employees. Writing document & playbooks
  • Recent experience in Translating practical procedure documents into high-level management level document for audit and summary purposes.
  • Assisting in updating process documents defined and created by management. These processes are relevant to all activities in which the team is involved.
  • Improving technical understanding of company security technologies.
  • Nice-To-Have Skills :

  • JIRA, Power BI, MS office suite
  • Experience writing law enforcement documents is preferred
  • Soft Skills

    Communicating effectively orally and in writing

  • Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
  • Strong research and analytical skills
  • Ability to undertake multiple projects and deliver on tight deadlines
  • Detail-oriented
  • Ability to meet deadlines and to work independently.
  • Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
  • Excellent writing, editing, and communication skills
  • Education

  • Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science or relevant work experience is required
  • Interview :

    1 – 30mins – MS team – HM & Team member– Soft skills & technical skills – 10 questions

  • 2 – 30mins – MS teams – HM – Technical writer – Skills & positions - 5 questions