Penetration Tester

Filetwigbay; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 99,000 - 133,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Benefits

Flexible San Antonio work terms

Job summary

Morgan Stanley in San Antonio is seeking a Penetration Tester with 7+ years of CEH experience to own critical security initiatives. You will lead efforts to improve uptime, translate metrics for leadership, and drive PCI DSS remediations while guiding on-premise to cloud-native transitions.

The role offers mentorship, benefits, and flexible terms for working in San Antonio. A strong focus on collaboration and ownership under tight deadlines is essential.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of CEH reps, not just CEH exposure.
• Experience owning security initiatives under tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Ship the Collaboration quality-obsessed rewrite that pays down years of Morgan Stanley technical debt.
• Defend Morgan Stanley uptime through the 2 a.m. San Antonio pages nobody volunteers for.
• Translate Communication metrics into the one chart Morgan Stanley leadership checks each morning.
• Own the Communication release that San Antonio leadership has circled on the calendar.
• Reach into legacy PCI DSS modules and leave them cleaner than you found them.
• Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity.
• Support migration of on-premise services to cloud-native architecture.
• Negotiate Communication tradeoffs with product when Morgan Stanley timelines and reality collide.

Skills

CEH

Tools

Metasploit

Job description

We need someone who reads stack traces the way other people read headlines, and we're calling that someone a Penetration Tester. We're looking for 7+ years of Communication; in return you'll get $99,000 - $133,000, ownership, and a team worth joining.

Key Responsibilities

• Ship the Collaboration quality-obsessed rewrite that pays down years of Morgan Stanley technical debt
• Defend Morgan Stanley uptime through the 2 a.m. San Antonio pages nobody volunteers for
• Translate Communication metrics into the one chart Morgan Stanley leadership checks each morning
• Own the Communication release that San Antonio leadership has circled on the calendar
• Reach into legacy PCI DSS modules and leave them cleaner than you found them
• Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity
• Support migration of on-premise services to cloud-native architecture
• Negotiate Communication tradeoffs with product when Morgan Stanley timelines and reality collide

What You'll Bring

• A fun-loving bias toward action, balanced by knowing when to wait
• 7+ years of CEH reps, not just CEH exposure
• Comfort owning a number that goes up or down because of you
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities under tight deadlines
• Judgment seasoned by at least 7 years of real consequences

Morgan Stanley treats San Antonio, TX as both home and laboratory, prototyping empowering technology ideas no larger rival would risk. We give people autonomy early and trust them to ask for support when they need it.

For your Metasploit and 7 of grit, we offer $99,000 - $133,000, mentorship, benefits, and the flexibility to do San Antonio on your terms.

Last touched this morning, the Penetration Tester listing remains active and unfilled.