Senior Attack Surface & Exposure Validation Engineer

EY; Jericho (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

EY Information Security is seeking an Attack Surface Validation & Exposure Engineer in the Attack Surface Management function. You will help discover and manage vulnerabilities at scale, working with Red Team, Exposure Assessment, Threat Detection, and VM stakeholders to reduce EY’s exposure.

The role offers autonomy and senior‑level influence, developing self‑engineered solutions, automated discovery, and validated attack paths to enable remediation and faster business decisions in a global

Qualifications

• Minimum combined 8 years of experience in vulnerability management, exposure management, offensive security, and security engineering.
• Demonstrated 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.

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, etc
• 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

Vulnerability management

Exposure management

Offensive security

Security engineering

Job description

EY Information Security is seeking an Attack Surface Validation & Exposure Engineer in the Attack Surface Management function. You will help discover and manage vulnerabilities at scale, working with Red Team, Exposure Assessment, Threat Detection, and VM stakeholders to reduce EY’s exposure.

The role offers autonomy and senior‑level influence, developing self‑engineered solutions, automated discovery, and validated attack paths to enable remediation and faster business decisions in a global