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If you dont think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job please apply. Nobody checks every box - were looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas and have some interest and capabilities in others.

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 companys leadership team and a cross-functional team of skilled engineers from various perspectives all working with a singular focus of maintaining our customers trust. Youll 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 doing so youll be playing a role in keeping Kong secure and compliant bringing security to our companys forefront.

What youll be doing:

• 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 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 analysis methodology and results.

• Recognize potential successful and unsuccessful intrusion attempts and compromises thorough reviews and analyses of relevant event detail and summary information

• Partner with key stakeholders and communicate effectively to improve preparation identification analysis containment and post-mortem activities feedback loop.

• Develop monthly reporting dashboards and metrics on incidents and response capabilities

• Prepare executive summaries and conduct briefings on significant investigations.

What youll bring:

• Experience in crisis management namely in preventing incidents from becoming a crisis

• Insight of using incidents as opportunities by leveraging Incidents to drive innovation situation awareness and fixes

• Passion for automation delegation and scalability via playbooks and highly effective processes

• Drive for automating processes and workflows to detect contain and eliminate active malicious agents

• Expertise in building and operating security information/event management systems (SIEM) centralized logging and enrichment solutions (Endpoint protection/detection Panther Crowdstrike AWS Security Hub codebase infrastructure build infrastructure).

• Practical experience working with cloud technologies; ability to build and deploy a solution using Terraform.

• Experience with building and deploying solutions (Ansible Terraform)

• Competency in Linux windows;

• Ability to automate workflows via Python or javascript scripting languages.

About Kong:

Kong Inc. a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies is building the infrastructure that powers the agentic era. trusted by the Fortune 500 and startups alike Kongs unified API and AI platform Kong Konnect enables organizations to secure manage accelerate govern and monetize the flow of intelligence across APIs and AI models. For more information visit .

Required Experience:

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