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Forcepoint

Technical Writer III

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Job Description

Who is Forcepoint

Forcepoint simplifies security for global businesses and governments. Forcepoint's all-in-one, truly cloud-native platform makes it easy to adopt Zero Trust and prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working. 20+ years in business. 2.7k employees. 150 countries. 11k+ customers. 300+ patents. If our mission excites you, you're in the right place we want you to bring your own energy to help us create a safer world. All we're missing is you!

  • Build a close collaborative relationship and confidently engage with product management, product enablement, product development, and QA teams to quickly build in-depth knowledge of Forcepoint products and solutions.
  • Research, develop, and write content for highly complex cybersecurity products which include administration manuals, user documentation, online-help systems, KB articles, installation guides, product tutorials, and videos.
  • Interview engineers, developers, and other technical experts to become familiar with the product technology and development methods.
  • Use products hands on, as necessary, to exercise product features and functionality in virtual lab environments.
  • Author, edit, and publish a wide variety of technical materials that convey the vision and use cases of product and service capabilities.
  • Contribute to standards, conventions, processes, and doc tools efforts as required.
  • Working in an agile/scrum development environment, ensure deliverables are produced to plan - by delivery train or release - and are high quality, and are effective for the intended audience, and follow brand, voice, and style guidelines.

Education

BTech/MCA/MSc/BCA/B.Sc. preferably in Computer Science/IT or ECE/EE.

Mandatory Skills

  • Excellent written English language skills.
  • Excellent team player, ability to adapt to a fast-paced work environment and flexible nature.
  • Strong time management skills and ability to juggle multiple projects flexibly.
  • Demonstrate persistence, perseverance, and overcome obstacles measure self against standard of excellence take sound, calculated risk to accomplish goals.
  • Strong quality focus in the work delivery.

Desirable Skills

  • Knowledge of networking and security domains at least to a college curriculum level.
  • Ability to use Linux systems will be highly desirable.
  • Basic exposure to XML technologies (XML/XSLT/XSD), CSS, HTML.
  • Experience using documentation tools like Oxygen XML Author, any version control or content management tools - SVN, Git etc. will be a plus.
  • Graphics skills in using screen capture tools, basic graphics editing etc.
  • Familiarity with using corporate writing style guides will be a plus.

Work Experience

Content writing experience in the software industry between 3-6 years is desirable.

Company Culture

  • Fast-paced work environment where things are changing dynamically in response to business needs.
  • Immense learning opportunity on new technologies in the data security domain.
  • Global team culture with opportunity to work with colleagues located in different geographies.
  • Excellent career growth opportunity.
  • Fun loving and supportive team culture where you will make friends while working on some of the most challenging projects and initiatives.

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Job ID: 133407287