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Our Fortune 500 client is looking for a Technical Writer to work on their project based out of Spartanburg County, SC / Onsite.
Job Title: Technical Writer
Location: Spartanburg County, SC / Onsite
Duration: 12+ Months
Job Description:
The Technical Writer will create, standardize, and organize the authoritative documentation produced through the County's Documentation Recovery initiative. Working closely with the Business Analyst, IT subject-matter experts, and IT leadership, the Technical Writer will transform discovery findings and technical knowledge into clear, accurate, consistent, maintainable documentation. Deliverables will support cybersecurity, IT operations, knowledge transfer, incident response, disaster recovery, business continuity, and long-term operational resilience.
Daily Duties / Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain clear, professional technical documentation using standardized County templates and conventions.
- Create SOPs, operational procedures, system and application documentation, infrastructure documentation, runbooks, support procedures, administrative procedures, and knowledge-base articles.
- Create and maintain incident-response, disaster-recovery, business-continuity, restoration, and recovery documentation in coordination with SMEs and leadership.
- Translate complex technical information and SME interviews into accurate documentation usable by technical staff and appropriate operational audiences.
- Create and refine diagrams, workflows, process maps, architecture-supporting visuals, and documentation graphics using Microsoft Visio.
- Use Microsoft 365 extensively, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, and related collaboration/document-management capabilities.
- Apply consistent terminology, formatting, versioning, metadata, document ownership, review dates, and change history.
- Collaborate with the Business Analyst to convert discovery outputs, requirements, inventories, and process maps into finished documentation.
- Conduct document reviews with SMEs, reconcile feedback, verify technical accuracy, and prepare documents for approval and publication.
- Help establish reusable templates, style standards, naming conventions, repository structures, and documentation lifecycle practices.
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of demonstrated technical-writing experience producing professional documentation for complex IT or technology environments.
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft 365, especially Word and SharePoint, plus Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and related collaboration tools.
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Visio for technical diagrams, workflows, process maps, and supporting visuals.
- Demonstrated experience producing SOPs, runbooks, system documentation, operational procedures, knowledge articles, or comparable technical deliverables.
- Strong editing, information-architecture, document-organization, formatting, and quality-control skills.
- Ability to work directly with technical SMEs across infrastructure, applications, service delivery, cybersecurity, or similar IT disciplines.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience documenting cybersecurity, infrastructure, incident response, disaster recovery, business continuity, or IT service-management environments.
- Experience with documentation recovery, knowledge-management, or large-scale documentation-standardization initiatives.
- Experience designing and administering SharePoint-based documentation libraries, templates, metadata, and lifecycle practices.
- Familiarity with ITIL, NIST, CIS, or other recognized IT/security frameworks.
- Government or other highly regulated environment experience.
Required Education/Certification
- Bachelor's degree in Technical Communication, English, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related field, OR equivalent relevant professional experience.
- Demonstrated experience and quality of prior work are more important than a specific certification.
- Certified Professional Technical Communicator (CPTC), ITIL Foundation, or comparable technical-writing/IT certification.
- Certifications are preferred but will not substitute for demonstrated experience and an excellent portfolio.
Please send your updated word format resume along with your best contact details to E v a n ( a t ) s t e l l a r i t ( d o t ) c o m
Looking forward to hearing from you.
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