Security Operations Engineer: Cloud, IAM & Incident Response

Allied Resources Technical Consultants; Conshohocken (Montgomery County); On-site; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Allied Resources Technical Consultants seeks a Security Operations Engineer to strengthen enterprise cybersecurity across a distributed organization. You will secure cloud environments, endpoints, identity systems, SaaS platforms, and infrastructure while leading security operations, vulnerability management, incident response, and compliance initiatives.

The ideal candidate brings hands-on security engineering, IT operations, risk management, and security testing experience and will collaborate

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, IT, CS, or related field; equivalent experience considered.
• Minimum 3 years in cybersecurity, security engineering, IT operations, infrastructure security, or related.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise endpoints, cloud environments, SaaS apps, and identity management systems.
• Strong experience with Microsoft 365, Azure Entra ID, Intune, or comparable enterprise security and endpoint management platforms.
• Working knowledge of vulnerability management, penetration testing, incident response, network security monitoring, and digital forensics.
• Understanding of SSO, SAML, MFA, privileged access management, and identity lifecycle management.
• Familiarity with firewalls, IDS/IPS, EDR, SIEM, and common cybersecurity threats.
• Experience scripting and automating operational processes using Python/PowerShell.
• Experience supporting security audits, compliance assessments, evidence collection, and technical documentation.
• Working knowledge of GDPR and familiarity with German and Swiss privacy regulations.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary liaison to MSSPs, overseeing security operations, vulnerability assessments, incident response, and remediation.
• Implement and maintain enterprise security controls across Microsoft 365, Azure Entra ID, Intune, SaaS apps, cloud environments, and endpoints.
• Manage identity and access security including SSO, MFA, privileged access management, user provisioning, and least-privilege controls.
• Conduct authorized vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, attack-path analysis, and security risk assessments.
• Support security monitoring, incident investigations, threat analysis, containment, recovery, and continuous improvements.
• Maintain security risk registers, policies, procedures, incident documentation, and audit evidence.
• Partner with IT, Legal, Privacy, and Compliance to support regulatory requirements and ISO/NIST-aligned frameworks.
• Automate security workflows using Python, PowerShell, or Power Automate.
• Support endpoint protection, patch management, asset inventories, secure configurations, and third-party vendor security assessments.

Skills

Security operations

Incident response

Vulnerability management

Cloud security

Identity management

Scripting & automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity/IT/CS

Tools

Python

PowerShell

Power Automate

Microsoft 365

Azure Entra ID

Intune

SIEM

EDR

Job description

Allied Resources Technical Consultants seeks a Security Operations Engineer to strengthen enterprise cybersecurity across a distributed organization. You will secure cloud environments, endpoints, identity systems, SaaS platforms, and infrastructure while leading security operations, vulnerability management, incident response, and compliance initiatives.

The ideal candidate brings hands-on security engineering, IT operations, risk management, and security testing experience and will collaborate