Senior Attack Surface Engineer — Exposure & Offense

EY; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is seeking an experienced Attack Surface Validation & Exposure Engineer in a senior capacity to lead the discovery and management of vulnerabilities at scale. You will collaborate with Red Team, Exposure Assessment, Threat Detection, and VM stakeholders to identify susceptibility areas and develop self-engineered solutions.

The role emphasizes autonomous work within EY’s Vulnerability Management and Exposure Assessment capability, focusing on attack path discovery, exposure validation, and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in vulnerability management, exposure management, offensive security, and security engineering.
• Experience analyzing vulnerability and security posture data.
• Deep understanding of attack paths, misconfigurations, and control failures that lead to material risk.
• Proven ability to build scalable solutions to vulnerability and exposure challenges.
• Experience operating at a strategic level, balancing technical depth with organizational risk context.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to evaluate large volumes of data to influence solution development.
• Excellent communication skills, with comfort engaging senior stakeholders and security leadership.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and operate independently in a complex, global environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and engineer automated attack-path discovery and validation capabilities
• Build scalable vulnerability detection and verification pipelines that combine enterprise scanning sources with custom validation logic
• Develop controlled exploitation and exploit-chaining workflows to safely demonstrate real attacker outcomes
• Operationalize continuous offensive validation by engineering testing routines that can run with minimal human prompting
• Fuse Vulnerability Intelligence and Cyber Threat Intelligence into detection and prioritization—tracking exploit maturity/availability, active exploitation signals, and technique trends
• Produce high‑fidelity deliverables that enable remediation and decisioning: reproducible evidence, attack-path narratives, severity/exploitability rationale, compensating control notes, and clear remediation/mitigation recommendations
• Partner across Red Team, Exposure Assessment, Threat Detection, and VM stakeholders

Skills

Attention to detail

Critical thinking

Creative problem solving

Communication skills

Offensive security

Tools

Vulnerability management tools

Security analytics platforms

Job description

EY is seeking an experienced Attack Surface Validation & Exposure Engineer in a senior capacity to lead the discovery and management of vulnerabilities at scale. You will collaborate with Red Team, Exposure Assessment, Threat Detection, and VM stakeholders to identify susceptibility areas and develop self-engineered solutions.

The role emphasizes autonomous work within EY’s Vulnerability Management and Exposure Assessment capability, focusing on attack path discovery, exposure validation, and