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• Overview

  Social Innovation Lab is hiring a Penetration Tester in Houston, TX.

• Role description

  As a Penetration Tester at Social Innovation Lab, you will own features end to end, from architecture through deployment and monitoring. With 5 years of experience under your belt, you'll step into a hybrid position paying $106,000 - $160,000 where ownership and momentum matter.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Keep Social Innovation Lab's Azure Sentinel CI under ten minutes so Houston, TX engineers stay in flow
  • Refine and maintain microservices that support Social Innovation Lab customers in Houston, TX
  • Build the remote-native Kali Linux feature that wins back the TX accounts Social Innovation Lab lost
  • Keep Social Innovation Lab's Kali Linux dependencies patched before the CVEs become incidents
  • Profile Wazuh memory use and chase down the leaks crashing Houston nodes
  • Catch the DAST race conditions that only surface under Houston peak traffic

  What You'll Bring

  • Demonstrated GIAC GSEC expertise in a fast-moving technology environment
  • Experience supporting cross-functional teams in a senior capacity
  • 5 years of learning when to trust the process and when to break it
  • Experience thriving in a results-oriented, deadline-driven setting like Social Innovation Lab
  • The communication discipline to over-share early and trim later
  • Comfort interpreting data and translating findings into clear recommendations
  • A solid foundation in DAST, refined over 6+ years

  Rooted in Houston and restless by nature, Social Innovation Lab keeps reinventing how Snort and Decision Making fit together. At Social Innovation Lab we hire people we can trust with real decisions and then give them the room to make them.

  We back our team with $106,000 - $160,000, equity, top-tier health benefits, and the flexibility to work where you do your best thinking.

  This role is being actively staffed, with offers expected before the quarter closes.

  Send your application to Social Innovation Lab and let's turn this listing into your start date.

• Required skills

  • GIAC GSEC
  • Penetration Testing
  • DAST
  • Wazuh
  • Kali Linux
  • Threat Modeling
  • Snort
  • Risk Assessment
  • Azure Sentinel
  • Kubernetes Security
  • Multitasking
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Decision Making
  • Coaching

• Benefits & perks

  • Company retreats
  • Hospital indemnity insurance
  • Generous paid time off
  • Ping Pong
  • Professional association memberships
  • Onboarding buddy program

• Apply before 2026-11-27

  Submit your application for this Hybrid technology position.