Technical Writer
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$ 68200 - 115100
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JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS:
We are seeking a technical writing professional to work closely with our programs chief engineer defining and documenting this large scale project eventually creating a program of record in the long term. You will be a key component of our DevSecOps Department in San Diego CA at the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at Penn State. ARLs purpose is to research and develop innovative solutions to challenging scientific engineering and technology problems in support of the Navy the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Intel Community (IC).The ideal candidate will be comfortable in a customerfacing role communicating with all of the programs stakeholders across various departments.
ARL is an authorized DoD SkillBridge partner and welcomes all transitioning military members to apply.
You will:
- Collaborate with Research and Development Engineers to formalize documentations and visualizations (e.g. Visio Smart Art)
- Work directly with program leadership and customers to create formalize and validate documentation
- Participate in discussions related to the sponsors modernization process and documentation of the ensuing details described
- Create a documentation repository to house all shared resources
- Maintain constant communications with key personnel as project evolves and unfolds to ensure information is being documented properly to reduce errors and increase accuracy
Additional responsibilities for higherlevel position:
- Assume responsibility and accountability of program outcomes
- Create or modify systems architecture design discovery and validation technical artifacts
- Work for or around General Officers SES or Presidential appointees
- DoD 8570 IAT III or IASAE II Baseline (CISSP / CASP) and Computing Environment certification (Dell OS10 PANOS Rancher GitLab Puppet etc.
This position will be filled at the advanced or senior professional level depending on your education and experience. Typical requirements include a Bachelors Degree or higher in an Engineering or Science discipline; 4 years of related experience for the advanced professional level. Additional experience and/or education and competencies are required for higherlevel jobs.
Required skills/experience include:
- Understanding of various engineering disciplines to create technical documents and process maps
- Understand and explain complex technical concepts
- Ability to undertake multiple projects and deliver on tight deadlines
- Experience with documentation publishing software for example: GitLab Flavored Markdown (GLFM) Confluence Adobe Libre Office MS Office
- Proven technical writing skills
- Ability to set up an organized Documentation Repository in Gitlab or Confluence
- Organized with attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to represent successful completion of work in Agile Management systems (e.g. Jira Confluence GitLab)
- Active DoD Top Secret clearance or higher
Preferred skills/experience include:
- DoD 8570 IAT II Baseline Certification
- DoD 8570 IAT II Computing Environment training or certification
- Knowledge of CI/CD DevSecOps Cloud
- Experience with GitLab Flavored Markdown (GLFM)
- Strong internal and external research and analytical skills
- Success in an environment where various forms of communication and organizational skills were crucial to be effective
- Demonstrated ability documenting application operations and secure process automation
- Managing source code dependencies and artifacts with GitLab Ultimate
- Documenting:
- DevSecOps CI/CD with GitLab Ultimate
- Provisioning tools including Terraform Puppet Ansible or related frameworks
- Rancher Federal & RKE2
- Highly available/fault tolerant solutions
- Software Development experience in Python Java C
- Cloud networking deployment (e.g. Software defined networking Ingress Egress)
Your working location will be hybrid onsite located in San Diego CA. This position will require periodic travel to remote locations in support of testing as part of a small team of researchers engineers and technologists.
ARL at Penn State is an integral part of one of the leading research universities in the nation and serves as a University center of excellence in defense science systems and technologies with a focus in naval missions and related areas.
You will be subject to a government security investigation and you must be a U.S. citizen to apply. Employment with the ARL will require successful completion of a preemployment drug screen.
ARL is committed to diversity equity and inclusion; we believe this is central to our success as a Department of Defense designated University Affiliated Research Center (UARC). We are at our best when we draw on the talents of all parts of society and our greatest accomplishments are achieved when diverse perspectives are part ofour workforce.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION on ARL visit our web site at .
The pay range for this position including all possible grades is:
$68200.00 $115100.00Salary Structure additional information on Penn States job and salary structure.
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Employment with the University will require successful completion of background check(s) in accordance with University policies.
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Employment Type
Full-Time
