Senior Attack Surface Validation Engineer

EY; Jacksonville (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is seeking an Attack Surface Validation & Exposure Engineer within the Attack Surface Management function to lead scalable discovery, validation, and exploit-path workflows across EY’s digital assets. The role emphasizes autonomous, strategic work balancing technical depth with business risk.

You will partner with Red Team, Exposure Assessment, Threat Intelligence, and Cyber Detection to identify susceptibilities, develop self‑engineered solutions, and produce evidence‑driven remediation

Qualifications

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

Adaptability

Communication skills

Offensive security experience

Job description

EY is seeking an Attack Surface Validation & Exposure Engineer within the Attack Surface Management function to lead scalable discovery, validation, and exploit-path workflows across EY’s digital assets. The role emphasizes autonomous, strategic work balancing technical depth with business risk.

You will partner with Red Team, Exposure Assessment, Threat Intelligence, and Cyber Detection to identify susceptibilities, develop self‑engineered solutions, and produce evidence‑driven remediation