[Remote] Cyber Defense Analyst

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. EY is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services, and they are seeking a Cyber Defense Analyst to enhance their vulnerability management and exposure assessment capabilities. The role focuses on attack path discovery, scalable vulnerability detection, and developing solutions to manage vulnerabilities effectively in a rapidly evolving threat landscape.

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

• 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
• Ability to manage competing priorities and operate independently in a complex, global environment
• Experience leveraging AI to conduct exposure assessments

Company Overview

EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society, the planet, while building trust in the capital markets. It was founded in 1989, and is headquartered in Berlin, Berlin, DEU, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://start-up-initiative.ey.com/#.

Company H1B Sponsorship

EY has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 3 in 2026, 3 in 2025, 16 in 2023. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.