Senior Attack Surface & Exposure Engineer

EY; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is seeking an Attack Surface Validation & Exposure Engineer to join its Information Security team in the Fort Worth area. You will drive discovery of attack paths, build scalable vulnerability detection pipelines, and engineer controlled exploitation workflows to demonstrate real attacker outcomes.

In this senior role, you will partner with Red Team, Exposure Assessment, Threat Detection, and VM stakeholders to harden EY’s digital assets and reduce business risk.

Qualifications

• Minimum combined 8 years of experience in vulnerability and 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.
• Excellent communication skills with senior stakeholders and security leadership.

Responsibilities

• Design and engineer automated attack-path discovery and validation capabilities.
• Build scalable vulnerability detection and verification pipelines combining enterprise sources with custom validation logic.
• Develop controlled exploitation and exploit-chaining workflows to safely demonstrate attacker outcomes.
• Operationalize continuous offensive validation with testing routines running with minimal human prompting.
• Fuse Vulnerability Intelligence and Cyber Threat Intelligence into detection and prioritization.
• Produce reproducible evidence, attack-path narratives, severity rationale, compensating control notes, and remediation guidance.
• Partner across Red Team, Exposure Assessment, Threat Detection, and VM stakeholders.

Skills

Vulnerability management

Exposure management

Offensive security

Security engineering

Attack path discovery

Automation & scripting

Stakeholder communication

Threat modeling

Job description

EY is seeking an Attack Surface Validation & Exposure Engineer to join its Information Security team in the Fort Worth area. You will drive discovery of attack paths, build scalable vulnerability detection pipelines, and engineer controlled exploitation workflows to demonstrate real attacker outcomes.

In this senior role, you will partner with Red Team, Exposure Assessment, Threat Detection, and VM stakeholders to harden EY’s digital assets and reduce business risk.