[Hiring] Senior Penetration Tester @Shorepointinc

Mar 24, 2025 - Shorepointinc is hiring a remote Senior Penetration Tester. 💸 Salary: unspecified. 📍Location: USA.

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Role Description

We are seeking a Senior Penetration Tester with a strong background in conducting comprehensive security assessments of agency systems, applications, and networks. The ideal candidate will have expertise in penetration testing methodologies, vulnerability exploitation, and threat modeling, with the ability to develop penetration testing documentation, including SOPs, test plans, and reports.

Developing Penetration SOPs, Test Plans, Pen Testing Reports.
Conducting comprehensive penetration tests on agency systems, applications, and networks to identify vulnerabilities and assess security posture.
Developing or modifying tools that automate discovery or exploitation (e.g., bash, Python, JavaScript and PowerShell).
Develop and execute comprehensive test plans, including threat modeling, exploitation, and post-exploitation analysis.
Delivering detailed reports outlining security risks, vulnerabilities, and recommended mitigation actions to stakeholders.
Collaborate with system administrators, developers, and security teams to remediate identified security weaknesses.
Effectively communicate technical findings, risks, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Work with customers to define the scope, objectives, and rules of engagement for penetration tests.
Clarify testing methodologies, timelines, and expected outcomes to ensure alignment with customer expectations.
Provide ongoing updates during engagements to keep customers informed of progress.
Deliver detailed reports outlining identified vulnerabilities, exploitation methods, and risk assessments.
Develop executive summaries for leadership, translating technical risks into business impact.
Present prioritized remediation strategies based on the severity and exploitability of findings.
Conduct debriefs meetings to walk through findings, answer questions, and provide guidance on mitigation efforts.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field from an accredited college or university.
Minimum of 5 years of experience conducting penetration testing.
Experience with penetration testing tools such as Metasploit, Nmap and Burp Suite.
Experience conducting penetration tests of mainframes, cloud systems, mobile, Software-as-a-Service and APIs.
Demonstrated experience writing and reviewing technical and non-technical documentation.
Ability to quickly grasp complex technical concepts and make them easily understandable in text and pictures.
Excellent verbal and written skills.
Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
Requires U.S. citizenship in compliance with federal contract requirements.

Requirements

Experience providing Incident Response capabilities.
Ability to research new trends, techniques, and packaging of malicious software to stay current and ready to identify and handle zero-day exploits.
Demonstrated success and understanding of accepted frameworks such as ISO/IEC 27001, COBIT, and NIST, including 800-53.
Experience compiling and maintaining internal standard operating procedure (SOP) documentation.
Experience working with host identification and exploitation of vulnerabilities.
Knowledge of phishing procedures.
Knowledge of script writing and crafting of payloads.
Knowledge of database operations and system/network administration.

Benefits

18 days of PTO
11 holidays
80% of insurance premium covered
401k
Continued education, certifications maintenance and reimbursement

Where it’s done

Remote (Herndon, VA).

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