Sr Technical Writer Cloud SecurityProject Lead

palo_alto_networks; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a revolutionary company that is at the forefront of enterprise security solutions! This role offers an exciting opportunity to blend your technical writing skills with leadership, guiding a team to create top-notch documentation for cutting-edge network security products. You will help users navigate and implement advanced firewall technologies, ensuring their systems are secure and efficient. If you are a strategic thinker with a passion for technology and a knack for communication, this position will allow you to make a significant impact while collaborating with talented professionals in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Knowledge in network security and proven leadership in writing teams.
• Experience with project management and collaboration tools.

Responsibilities

• Guide users in integrating next-gen firewalls into their environments.
• Manage a team of writers while producing high-quality documentation.

Skills

Network Security Knowledge

Leadership Skills

Technical Writing

Project Management

Interpersonal Skills

Problem Solving

Strategic Thinking

Communication Skills

Education

BA/BS or equivalent experience

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Perforce

Camtasia

Adobe Illustrator

PowerPoint

Job description

COMPANY:

Palo Alto Networks is a revolutionary and dynamic company creating next generation enterprise security products. If you are a motivated, intelligent, creative, and hardworking individual who wants to contribute and make a difference, this job is for you!

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Here at Palo Alto Networks, the Tech Docs team directly helps our customers, partners, and internal employees better understand how to configure and use our products to solve their network security problems. As a member of this team, you’ll get to flex both your writing and your leadership skills.

As a writer, you’ll guide our users on how to best integrate the Palo Alto Networks next-gen firewall into their environments to ensure that they are safely enabling all users in all locations all the time. As a technical writing manager your role will be that of a player-coach: you will both write documentation for your own features, while managing a team of writers and ensuring quality across all next-gen firewall documentation.

ABOUT YOU:

• Facility with technology—You’re curious, like to be hands-on with the products, and you can empathize with the challenges our customers face.
• Proven leadership—You like to mentor writers and help them develop the skills to produce high-quality documentation.
• Organization—You can take large amounts of technical details and organize them into topics that users can easily find and use to solve their network security problems. You can effectively track and coordinate multiple projects across the team.
• Initiative—You’re not afraid to propose changes to improve process and quality to enable a better customer experience and you are relentless in hunting down the information you need.
• Interpersonal skills—You are able to work with developers, QA, PMs, customers, SEs, Support, and within the Tech Docs team to successfully gather information required to understand the problems our users are facing and the ways our products help to solve them.
• Problem solving skills—You have strong critical-thinking skills and use them to ensure that you are providing just the information our users need to complete the task at hand.
• Strategic thinker—You’re always looking ahead. You’re able to anticipate what’s next and are thinking about how we can meet our users’ needs not only today, but tomorrow as well.
• Transparent communicator—When tracking and coordinating projects, you communicate project goals, dependencies, and deadlines to all stakeholders. You like to make sure that everyone is working with the same information, you work towards building consensus, and you set expectations effectively.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must have a knowledge and background in network security and or networking.
• Proven track record of leading writing teams.
• Experience planning and managing complex projects.
• Adept with team collaboration and release tracking tools (Jira and Confluence).
• Proficient with source control tools (Perforce).
• Experience with topic-based writing (DITA or XML authoring).
• Video tutorial creation (Camtasia), and/or proficiency developing illustrations (Adobe Illustrator or PowerPoint) a plus.

EDUCATION:

• BA/BS or equivalent experience required.