Penetration Tester

TechInnovate; Asheville (NC); On-site; USD 77,000 - 104,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits

Career ladder

Job summary

TechInnovate in Asheville, NC is seeking a mid-level Penetration Tester who thrives on solving hard problems using Nessus and OWASP Top 10. This role is full-time with a clear career ladder and comprehensive benefits.

You will mentor teammates, design backend services, and lead security design reviews while delivering practical risk assessments across projects. Candidates should have hands-on security testing experience and the ability to discuss technical topics clearly.

Qualifications

• Mentor teammates without taking over the keyboard.
• Hands-on security testing experience.
• Ability to surface risk before it surfaces itself.
• Experience at the mid-level inside a full-time role.

Responsibilities

• Catch regression issues in staging before they reach customers.
• Build internal tooling to boost developer productivity and velocity.
• Spike a Nessus proof of concept quickly when a decision is needed.
• Pull SOC telemetry into actionable dashboards for leadership.
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput workloads.
• Address legacy OWASP Top 10 modules and improve them.
• Design, build, and maintain backend services with security in mind.
• Lead technical design reviews for mid-level initiatives.

Skills

Mentoring

Threat detection

Security testing

Tools

Nessus

Job description

We are looking for a mid-level Penetration Tester who thrives on solving hard problems with Nessus and OWASP Top 10. If 3 years of Nessus sits behind you, TechInnovate offers $77,000 - $104,000, a full-time setup, and a ladder worth climbing.

Key Responsibilities

• Catch the autonomy-rich Professionalism regression in staging before it ever reaches Asheville customers
• Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity
• Spike a Nessus proof of concept fast when TechInnovate needs a yes-or-no answer
• Pull SOC Operations telemetry into dashboards TechInnovate leaders actually open
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput TechInnovate workloads
• Reach into legacy OWASP Top 10 modules and leave them cleaner than you found them
• Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using Customer Service and Cryptography
• Lead technical design reviews for mid-level technology initiatives

What You'll Bring

• The patience to mentor without taking over the keyboard
• Hands-on technology experience that holds up to follow-up questions
• The reflex to surface risk before it surfaces itself
• Experience at the mid-level inside a full-time role

We're TechInnovate - an impact-driven Asheville, NC outfit that treats Customer Service less like a feature and more like a craft. Our NC team treats transparency as a feature, sharing the messy middle, not just the wins.

We'll invest in you with $77,000 - $104,000, full benefits, and a roadmap that turns this job into a long-term career.

We are actively reviewing applications for this Penetration Tester role this week.