Technical Writer

• Location: Columbia, Maryland
• Type: Contract
• Job #3289

Title: Technical Writer
Location : Annapolis Junction, MD
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation's toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don't look any further than Cornerstone Defense.

Ready to be part of a cutting edge growing Cyber Security project that is making a huge impact on the DOD/Intel community? This role includes performing within a team of Systems Engineers, Software Engineers, and Intel Analysts supporting DCO (Defensive Cyber Operations) activities and providing technical writing expertise. Teams are performing end to end vulnerability assessments of weapons systems and providing mitigation strategies and technical recommendations to protect systems from cyber threats!

Qualifications:

• Bachelor in STEM field and 4 years Technical Writing experience or HS and 6 years Technical Writing experience supporting System Engineering teams
• Experienced user of the latest release of Microsoft Office (or equivalent) products
• Additionally, in accordance with any task, the candidate shall have a combination of the following skills:
• Ability to capture up to date notes, and provide record management of latest project developments by attending meetings, project events, reviewing documentation, and email traffic associated with project.
• Experience with engineering and project delivery life cycles
• Ability to absorb and synthesize large quantities of engineering or technical information, be able to digest and summarize technical date to functional teams and Government leadership.
• Ability to work with project and engineering team leads and members to identify required documentation repositories; support documentation revisions and edits while determining the best solution for compiling and storing modified and historical project artifacts.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with various mission delivery departments and engineering teams; support the vetting and definition of project requirements through verbal and online collaborations.
• Read,interpret, modify system engineering drawingsand specifications.
• Demonstrated 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.
• TS/SCI with Poly ++

Desired

• Vulnerability Assessment reporting
• Cyber background; or experience with handling documentation dealing with major weapons/space systems