Senior Attack Surface Engineer - Exposure & Validation

EY; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

EY’s Information Security team seeks an Attack Surface Validation & Exposure Engineer to lead attack-path discovery, scalable vulnerability detection, and exposure management initiatives. The role emphasizes automated validation, exploitation workflows, and collaboration with Red Team, Threat Intelligence, and VM stakeholders to strengthen EY’s security posture.

The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience in offensive security, vulnerability analytics, and strategic communication with

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.
• Excellent communication skills, with comfort engaging senior stakeholders and security leadership.

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

Offensive security

Communication skills

Security engineering

AI in security

Job description

EY’s Information Security team seeks an Attack Surface Validation & Exposure Engineer to lead attack-path discovery, scalable vulnerability detection, and exposure management initiatives. The role emphasizes automated validation, exploitation workflows, and collaboration with Red Team, Threat Intelligence, and VM stakeholders to strengthen EY’s security posture.

The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience in offensive security, vulnerability analytics, and strategic communication with