Penetration Tester: Nessus & OWASP Specialist

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

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.