Freelance Technical Content Writer

2 weeks ago


Ottawa, Canada Software Secured Full time

Software Secured is a leading Penetration Testing as a Service company, with a head office in beautiful Ottawa, Canada. We help software development teams get ahead of hackers using a suite of services and products.

Our marketing team is looking for multiple freelance technical content writers who can help us scale our content production operations.

What you get:

- Remote position based out of Canada
- Working with a friendly, small marketing team
- Have your content shared on the Software Secured blog, social media, and other promotional channels with proper credit owed to your work (we are not asking for ghostwriting)

What we are looking for:

- Experience as a penetration tester, security analyst/manager/engineer, or developer working on security programs
- Ability to write on highly technical security topics and explain them in a simple way
- Some proven technical writing experience in the information security space
- Expert with OWASP Top 10 and can explain them easily.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to receive and interpret blog briefs and construct value-driven, highly-actionable blog posts and other content types as needed
- Ability to accept constructive feedback to improve writing as needed
- Ability to suggest topics/keywords that are trending or better suited, and making suggestions on blog briefs where necessary.
- Availability to take on 2-4 blog content pieces per month to start

Nice to Haves:

- Public speaking experience
- Teaching experience, preferably security or CS topics
- You have done CTFs (Capture The Flag) in a competitive manner
- Large online following to signify existing thought leadership presence

Our company's values:

- Keeping it Secure: Software Secured's mission and values are a part of everything we do. We care about how our clients can do what they do without having to worry about hackers disrupting their work.
- Curiosity and humility: We are dedicated to learning and constantly improving. We hire the best of the best, humility is the key to remaining the best.
- Dive Deep: hard problems require diving deep to understand the real cause of the problem, we are not afraid of diving deep to come up with the best solutions.
- Bold: we take huge risks so our clients can minimize theirs, taking risks is part of what we do daily so we ensure the highest impact of our solutions.

Please note that this position is a** freelance opportunity**, so it will not offer any benefits that full-time Software Secured employees receive such as health insurance, profit-sharing, paid sick leave or any other benefits.


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