Junior Penetration Tester: Remote‑Friendly Growth & Coaching

Community Development Partners, LLC.; Concord (NC); Hybrid; USD 56,000 - 84,000; Full time

Job summary

Community Development Partners is hiring a junior Penetration Tester in Concord, NC. The role offers a starting salary of $56,000–$84,000 and a remote-friendly environment that supports growth in Secure Code Review and threat intelligence.

You will partner with QA to define test coverage, trace security issues to root cause, and help migrate on-premise services to cloud-native architectures. This hands-on role emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and learning within a security-first team.

Qualifications

• 1+ years navigating politics that technology work attracts.
• Comfortable owning projects from concept through delivery.
• 1+ years owning outcomes, not just completing tasks.
• Familiarity with Community Development Partners-scale workflows, or the appetite to reach them.
• Comfort being measured against a clear junior bar.
• A collaborator who makes the junior review feel less like an exam.

Responsibilities

• Partner with QA to define test coverage and catch regressions early.
• Negotiate TLS/SSL tradeoffs with product when Community Development Partners timelines and reality collide
• Read the Presentation Skills stack traces others skim past, and trace bugs to their root
• Slice the safety-first technology monolith into Vulnerability Assessment services Concord, NC can deploy alone
• Build responsive, accessible front-end interfaces with Security Auditing
• Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents across Vulnerability Assessment-based applications
• Support migration of on-premise services to cloud-native architecture
• Pair-program tricky Self-Motivation edge cases with engineers across Concord, NC

Skills

Project ownership

Delivery-focused

Ownership of outcomes

Familiar with scalable workflows

Collaboration

Secure Code Review

Job description

Community Development Partners is hiring a junior Penetration Tester in Concord, NC. The role offers a starting salary of $56,000–$84,000 and a remote-friendly environment that supports growth in Secure Code Review and threat intelligence.

You will partner with QA to define test coverage, trace security issues to root cause, and help migrate on-premise services to cloud-native architectures. This hands-on role emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and learning within a security-first team.