Incident Response Engineer (Cybersecurity)

TL;DR

Incident Response Engineer (Cybersecurity): Building and maintaining incident detection, response, and recovery capabilities for a global API and AI platform with an accent on stakeholder management, forensics, and workflow automation. Focus on designing security alerts, conducting threat hunting, and driving innovation through post-mortem analysis to maintain customer trust.

Location: Hybrid (Milan, Italy)

Company

hirify.global is a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, building the unified platform that secures, manages, and accelerates the flow of intelligence for enterprises and startups.

What you will do

• Execute and document incident handling guides and processes for the organization.
• Prioritize and analyze security events to reduce false positives and detect active threats.
• Design, automate, and maintain a portfolio of security alerts and escalation workflows.
• Perform forensics on IT systems during security incidents.
• Conduct threat hunting activities and anticipate future security threats.
• Partner with stakeholders to improve preparation, identification, and containment feedback loops.

Requirements

• Experience in crisis management and incident response methodologies.
• Expertise in building and operating SIEM systems, centralized logging, and enrichment solutions.
• Practical experience with cloud technologies and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.
• Competency in Linux and Windows operating systems.
• Ability to automate workflows using Python or JavaScript.
• Strong stakeholder management and clean thinking under pressure.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment focused on security, trust, and engineering excellence.
• Exposure to high-level technical and process operations in a leading API platform company.
• Opportunities to leverage incidents to drive innovation and system hardening.
• Participation in building 24/7 incident response capabilities.