Senior Technical Writer
Senior Technical Writer
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Black Duck Software Inc. helps organizations build secure highquality software minimizing risks while maximizing speed and productivity. Black Duck a recognized pioneer in application security provides SAST SCA and DAST solutions that enable teams to quickly find and fix vulnerabilities and defects in proprietary code open source components and application behavior. With a combination of industryleading tools services and expertise only Black Duck helps organizations maximize security and quality in DevSecOps and throughout the software development life cycle.
Were looking for a technical writer to contribute to documentation for our Bridge CLI client and the associated plugins. The Bridge documentation team explains to customers how to put software testing into continuous integration pipelines. Explaining the process effectively means performing the steps themselves so team members have to know how to set up pipelines in GitHub GitLab Azure and Jenkins or be able to learn it quickly.
Primary qualifications
- At least five years as a technical writer. Well consider less technical writing experience for those with additional experience in a more technical role like software development or support.
- Experience with at least one programming language
- Comfortable in the commandline or (even better) familiar with Bash scripting
- Familiarity with source control with Git (or a similar SCM tool) and GitLab (or a similar platform such as GitHub BitBucket etc.
- Knowledge of automation workflows/pipelines on GitHub GitLab Azure or Jenkins. Prior experience in this area or the ability to learn multiple platforms quickly is key to this position.
What we value
- Experience with Atlassian JIRA and Confluence
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies
- Experience with SaaSbased integrated product documentation and help pages
- Ability to take technical concepts and translate them into documentation to be consumed by nontechnical users
- Ability to work well in a fastpaced team environment
- Keen attention to detail
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to think about and improve the user experience whether advocating for the user in the Agile process or writing documentation that is easy for customers to use.
- Familiarity with application security software
- Experience with opensource libraries
- Experience with API documentation
- Experience with other developerfacing documentation like SDKs and commandline tools
- Familiarity with Zoomin documentation portal
- Experience working with DITA. (For example create ditamaps; create task concept and reference topics from scratch; create keydefs use a ditaval for conditional processing.
Black Duck considers all applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex gender preference national origin age disability or status as a Covered Veteran in accordance with federal law. In addition Black Duck complies with applicable state and local laws prohibiting discrimination in employment in every jurisdiction in which it maintains facilities. Black Duck also provides reasonable accommodation to individuals with a disability in accordance with applicable laws.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
