Penetration Tester Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• At least three years of cybersecurity or vulnerability assessment experience.
• Experience executing penetration tests, gathering evidence, documenting vulnerabilities, and validating system weaknesses.
• Experience using common penetration testing tools, such as Nmap, Nessus, Burp Suite, and Metasploit, to run scripts, support senior testers, and improve assessment quality.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and documentation skills.
• Understanding of exploit development concepts, offensive tooling, and common security control weaknesses.
• Ability to maintain testing notes, scripts, and tool configurations to support repeatability and compliance.
• Ability to develop structured documentation, perform technical writing, and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
• U.S. citizenship required.

Nice To Haves

• CompTIA PenTest+ certification.
• eJPT or eCPPT certification.
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, cybersecurity, or a related field.
• Previous or current CBP Background Investigation.

Responsibilities

• Assist with penetration tests across applications, endpoints, networks, cloud systems, and mission-critical environments.
• Run discovery and enumeration tasks using tools such as Nmap, Nessus, Burp Suite, Metasploit, and similar utilities.
• Execute basic exploitation steps under the direction of senior testers to validate identified vulnerabilities.
• Gather and document exploitation artifacts, screenshots, logs, payload outputs, and supporting evidence.
• Support post-exploitation analysis by capturing privilege escalation paths, lateral movement opportunities, and insecure configurations.
• Document vulnerabilities with descriptions, reproduction steps, and severity scoring.
• Draft technical sections of penetration testing reports and summarize findings for stakeholders.
• Work with system owners, developers, engineers, and cybersecurity teams to clarify findings and support remediation.
• Participate in retesting to confirm remediation and track closure progress.

Benefits

• Medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts.
• Dental plan options.
• Vision plan.
• 401(k) plan with pre-tax and post-tax contributions and a company match.
• Flexible work weeks where possible.
• Paid time off, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, and paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
• Short- and long-term disability benefits.
• Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance.