Cloud Security Analyst
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About the Role We're partnering with the world's leading AI research labs to build smarter, safer AI systems — and we need practitioners who truly understand how cloud environments fail in the real world. As a Cloud Security Analyst, you'll analyze real-world cloud security scenarios, identify failure patterns, and help validate AI-generated security reasoning. Your hands-on experience with production cloud environments is exactly what's needed to make frontier AI more accurate and trustworthy. - Organization: Alignerr - Type: Hourly Contract - Location: Remote - Commitment: 10–40 hours/week What You'll Do - Analyze cloud security scenarios across AWS, GCP, and Azure to identify risks and failure patterns - Review and assess IAM, networking, storage, and container security issues - Classify security gaps, misconfigurations, and cloud-related failures based on real-world impact - Validate and improve AI-generated security reasoning so it accurately reflects how cloud incidents unfold - Provide structured expert feedback that directly shapes the quality of AI security knowledge Who You Are - 2+ years of hands-on experience working with cloud environments in production - Solid understanding of cloud IAM, networking, storage, and container security concepts - Familiarity with real-world misconfigurations and security incidents - Able to reason clearly about blast radius, risk exposure, and business impact - Self-directed and comfortable working asynchronously on task-based assignments Nice to Have - Experience with cloud security tools, CSPM platforms, or threat modeling - Background in incident response or cloud penetration testing - Relevant certifications (AWS Security Specialty, CCSP, GCP Security Engineer, etc.) Why Join Us - Work directly on frontier AI systems alongside top AI research labs - Fully remote and flexible — work on your own schedule - Freelance perks: autonomy, variety, and global collaboration - Contribute meaningful expertise to AI that will impact how cloud security is understood at scale - Potential for ongoing work and contract extension
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