Job description

Dakota Consulting, Inc. (www.dakota-consulting.com) is a growing company that provides innovative business, IT, scientific research, and cybersecurity services to federal and commercial customers. Dakota’s objective is to provide services that meets customers’ needs and exceeds their expectations. Our core values include honesty, a commitment to exceptional customer service, and providing a respectful, fun, challenging, and learning place of employment. We are actively recruit for dedicated, technically competent individuals and partners that are self-motivated while performing exceptionally well in a collaborative team effort. Dakota’s headquarters are in Silver Spring, MD.

Dakota is looking for an experienced Technical Writer highly proficient with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, and Visio). Knowledge of Federal Government SA&A practices and policies, particularly FISMA and NIST Special Publications 800 series. Experience gathering, analyzing, and composing technical information into clear, readable documents to be used by technical and non-technical personnel. The successful candidate is expected to be a self-starter and be able to work independently with limited guidance. Excellent communication and presentation skills are essential for this role, in addition to highly proficient in editing documents. skills, as the candidate will be required to directly interface with various federal client stakeholders and perform demonstrations of the system to prospective clients.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the Agency’s comprehensive Information Technology and Cybersecurity policies, procedures, strategies, system documentation, and templates in accordance with and to satisfy agency requirements, Information Technology Infrastructure Library best practices, Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) requirements, National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) guidance, Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), Office of Management and Budget (OMB) mandates, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) directives, Cybersecurity Framework, OMB/DHS CIO Metrics and Office of Inspector General (OIG) FISMA Reporting Metrics objectives

• Develop memorandums, reports, project plans, performance work statements and briefings as directed

• Provide grammatical and editorial reviews of documents.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• BS in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering or other related analytical, scientific, or technical discipline

• Five (5) years of experience the research, preparation, writing, and editing of technical documents for publication

• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, and Visio).

• Experience gathering, analyzing, and composing technical information into clear, readable documents to be used by technical and non-technical personnel.

• Experience editing documents to ensure grammatical correctness and conducting research to ensure the use of proper technical terminology.

• Knowledge of Federal Government SA&A practices and policies, particularly FISMA and NIST Special Publications 800 series.

• Industry recognized and accepted certifications relating to IT security preferred (CISSP, GIAC, CEH, TNCP, Security+, Network+, ITIL etc.).

• Ability to work independently and collaborate with application developers, engineers and others.

• Must be motivated and results oriented.

• Must possess excellent written and oral communication skills.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Relocation assistance
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Application Question(s):

• What is your availability start?
• What are your salary expectations?
• Do you have any certifications, please list?
• Have you written any cybersecurity documentation?
• Are you familiar with NIST SP 800-53? Please provide a few examples?
• Have you written any cybersecurity documentation for the federal government to include SSP, RA, POA&M's, BIA, FIPS-199?
• How many years of 508 compliance do you have? Can you provide examples of this experience?

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Work Location: Remote

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