Red Team - Offensive Security Analyst - Manager

EY • Hoboken, New Jersey • Posted July 21, 2026

Position Overview

The opportunity

The Active Defense team is responsible for four core areas: Adversarial Testing (Purple Team), Proactive Threat Hunting, Anomaly Analysis, and Cyber Deception. This function plays a critical role in strengthening and maturing the firm’s enterprise security capabilities through threat-informed defense and continuous validation of security controls.

We are seeking an Active Defense Analyst with a strong information security background and a passion for using offensive security techniques to improve defensive outcomes. In its Purple Team capacity, the role will emulate adversary behaviors, validate security detections and defensive controls, and identify opportunities to enhance the effectiveness of security operations and incident response teams. In its Threat Hunting capacity, the analyst will proactively identify malicious activity, suspicious behaviors, and emerging threats through analysis of security telemetry, SIEM data, EDR platforms,...