Senior incident response engineer
Pubblicato il 11-09-2026 - Cacheflow in Italia
Tempo pieno
Hybrid
All Cost Center R&D; ENG
If you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box - we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.
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. In doing so,
you'll be playing a role in keeping Kong secure and compliant, bringing security to our company's forefront.
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.
Design, automate and maintain a portfolio of security alerts, automated actions, and escalation workflows supporting a high-performing 24/7 incident response capability.
Conduct threat hunting activities, anticipate future threats, and maintain forward-thinking strategies for tools/technology/processes that combat sophisticated threat actors.
Assist with implementation of counter-measures or mitigating controls
Develop and maintain Incident Response capabilities in public cloud environments
Prepare incident reports of