Senior Incident Response Engineer
Pubblicato il 07-09-2026 - Kong in Milano
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About the Role:
This position will build a working leader reporting to the security manager, who is responsible for creating a collaborative environment between Kong Inc. Security and all impacted business/engineering teams by working together in the effective incident detection, response, recovery, identification, and protection. Stakeholder management and clean thinking under pressure are critical requirements for the role, together with a strong passion for Cyber Security and its fantastic ability to make a real difference in protecting customers, partners and employees.
The company's leadership team, and a cross-functional team of skilled engineers from various perspectives, all working with a singular focus of maintaining our customer's trust.
You'll be exposed to the reality of how Kong functions on a technical and process level and will build a comprehensive base of knowledge around how it all works together. In doing so, you'll be playing a role in keeping Kong secure and compliant, bringing security to our company's forefront.
What You’ll Do:
- Execute, develop and document incident handling guides and processes for Kong.
- Prioritizes events using existing tools to correlate data to reduce false positives and detect threats.
- Analyze and tune security alerts and interpret events, as well as create new signals based on signatures and behavioral activities.
- Respond to security incidents and perform forensics on IT systems as necessary.
- Guide/lead mitigation strategies for identified vulnerabilities and threats.
- Design, automate and maintain a portfolio of security alerts, automated actions, and escalation workflows supporting a high-performing 24/7 incident res