Kubernetes Security Penetration Tester — Mentorship & Growth

Dollar General Corporation; Nashua (NH); On-site; USD 97,000 - 134,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Health coverage

Paid growth time

Internship arrangement

Job summary

Dollar General Corporation in Nashua, NH seeks a Penetration Tester to advance security for Kubernetes and database workloads. The role includes mentorship, health coverage, paid growth time, and an internship arrangement that respects your evenings.

The position offers a competitive salary with strong learning opportunities, and involvement in security reviews, runbooks, and decision-making on OSCP versus building capabilities for the Nashua stack.

Qualifications

• Resilience measured across 4 years of technology cycles.
• A collaborator who makes the mid-level review feel less like an exam.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal oversight.
• 4 years of learning when to trust the process and when to break it.
• At least 5 years of standing behind your own estimates.
• Storytelling instincts that turn data into a decision.

Responsibilities

• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput Dollar General workloads.
• Pull Metasploit telemetry into dashboards Dollar General leaders actually open.
• Hand off Kubernetes Security runbooks so the next on-call at Dollar General sleeps better.
• Review pull requests and uphold engineering standards across the technology team.
• Decide when to buy OSCP versus build it for Dollar General's Nashua, NH stack.

Skills

Kubernetes security

Security testing

Data storytelling

Tools

Metasploit

Job description

Dollar General Corporation in Nashua, NH seeks a Penetration Tester to advance security for Kubernetes and database workloads. The role includes mentorship, health coverage, paid growth time, and an internship arrangement that respects your evenings.

The position offers a competitive salary with strong learning opportunities, and involvement in security reviews, runbooks, and decision-making on OSCP versus building capabilities for the Nashua stack.