Penetration Tester

Investment Solutions Group; Newark (NJ); On-site; USD 95,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Job summary

Investment Solutions Group in Newark, NJ is seeking a contract role focused on writing clean, performant DAST code that runs in production. The team pays $95,000 - $138,000 and supports you with mentorship to strengthen your technology career while you own critical subsystems.

You will partner with QA, mentor the mid-level cohort, and drive improvements in security, time management, and overall performance at scale.

Qualifications

• 3+ years owning outcomes, not just completing tasks.
• Experience supporting cross-functional teams in a mid-level capacity.
• Proven vulnerability assessment judgment when the textbook answer doesn't fit.
• Hands-on familiarity with Time Management and Security Awareness Training side projects.
• Empathy to deliver hard feedback and drive improvements.

Responsibilities

• Partner with QA to define test coverage and catch regressions early
• Mentor the mid-level cohort through their first real Work Ethic on-call
• Chase down the Security Awareness Training integration that silently drops Investment Solutions Group events at midnight
• Hand off Digital Forensics runbooks so the next on-call at Investment Solutions Group sleeps better
• Own the Time Management subsystem that the rest of Investment Solutions Group depends on
• Optimize application performance, latency, and resource utilization at scale

Skills

Vulnerability assessment

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Time management

Performance optimization

On-call experience

Job description

If you love writing clean, performant DAST code that runs in production, this contract role in Newark, NJ was made for you. Here's the long and short of it — Investment Solutions Group pays $95,000 - $138,000, trusts your 4 years, and lets you own the technology call.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with QA to define test coverage and catch regressions early
• Mentor the mid-level cohort through their first real Work Ethic on-call at Investment Solutions Group
• Chase down the Security Awareness Training integration that silently drops Investment Solutions Group events at midnight
• Hand off Digital Forensics runbooks so the next on-call at Investment Solutions Group sleeps better
• Own the quietly-ambitious Time Management subsystem that the rest of Investment Solutions Group quietly depends on
• Optimize application performance, latency, and resource utilization at scale

What You'll Bring

• The kind of empathy that makes hard feedback land softly
• Experience supporting cross-functional teams in a mid-level capacity
• Proven Vulnerability Assessment judgment when the textbook answer doesn't fit
• Hands-on familiarity with Time Management, sharpened by Security Awareness Training side projects
• 3+ years owning outcomes, not just completing tasks

Investment Solutions Group builds the unglamorous technology plumbing that Newark, NJ relies on, and it does so with client-centric pride. We value clear writing and honest conversation over status games and politics.

You get $95,000 - $138,000, a robust benefits suite, and hands-on mentorship aimed at making you a stronger technology professional.