# Penetration Tester Junior

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Ashburn, VA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $91,375 - $123,625
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Cyber Security Directorate (CSD) is leading one of the most comprehensive, mission critical cybersecurity operations in the federal government, protecting the digital infrastructure that safeguards America’s borders.

The Penetration Tester Junior will support teams at the forefront of national security, supporting sophisticated cyber operations that defend vital systems, enable secure mission execution, and counter rapidly evolving threats.

**Responsibilities**

- Assist in performing penetration tests across applications, endpoints, networks, cloud systems, and mission-critical environments to uncover security gaps.

- Run discovery and enumeration tasks using industry-standard testing tools such as Nmap, Nessus, Burp Suite, Metasploit, and similar utilities.

- Execute basic exploitation steps under the direction of senior testers to help validate identified vulnerabilities.

- Gather and document exploitation artifacts, screenshots, logs, payload outputs, and supporting evidence to ensure complete audit and reporting trails.

- Support post-exploitation analysis by capturing privilege escalation paths, lateral movement opportunities, or insecure configurations.

- Document vulnerabilities with clear descriptions, reproduction steps, and appropriate severity scoring.

- Contribute to penetration testing reports by drafting technical sections and summarizing findings for stakeholder awareness.

- Work with system owners, developers, engineers, and cybersecurity teams to clarify findings and support remediation efforts.

- Participate in retesting cycles to confirm vulnerability remediation and track closure progress.

**Requirements**

- Minimum of three (3) years of cybersecurity or vulnerability assessment experience.

- Experience executing penetration tests, gathering evidence, documenting vulnerabilities, and validating system weaknesses.

- Experience with common penetration testing tools to run scripts, supports senior testers, and contributes to improving assessment quality.

- Strong analytical and documentation skills.

- Understanding of exploit development concepts, offensive tooling, and common security control weaknesses.

- Strong skills in testing notes, scripts, and tool configurations to support repeatability and compliance.

- Ability to develop structured documentation, perform technical writing, and have effective communication with both technical and non-technical audiences.

**Benefits**

- Medical plan options

- Dental plan options

- Vision plan

- 401(k) plan with company match

- Paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave

- Short and long-term disability benefits

- Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance

## Skills

### Required
- Cybersecurity Operations
- Incident Response
- Network Penetration Testing
- Security Operations
- Vulnerability Remediation
- Nmap
- Nessus
- Burp Suite
- Metasploit

### Nice to have
- CompTIA PenTest+
- eJPT / eCPPT

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