Cloud Security Analyst
About this role
About the Role At Alignerr, we partner with the world's leading AI research teams and labs to build and evaluate cutting-edge AI models. Right now, we're building datasets and evaluations focused on cloud security — and we need practitioners who truly understand how cloud environments fail in the real world. This is a unique opportunity to put your hands-on cloud security experience to work shaping how AI reasons about infrastructure risk, misconfigurations, and real-world incidents. - 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, failure patterns, and misconfigurations - Review and evaluate IAM policies, networking configurations, storage permissions, and container security setups - Classify security gaps and cloud-related failures based on real-world impact and blast radius - Validate and improve AI-generated security reasoning so it accurately reflects how cloud incidents actually unfold - Provide structured, expert feedback that directly improves frontier AI security capabilities Who You Are - 2+ years of hands-on experience working with cloud environments in production - Strong familiarity with cloud IAM, networking, storage, and container security concepts - Experience identifying and reasoning about real-world misconfigurations and security incidents - Able to clearly articulate blast radius, risk exposure, and business impact of security failures - Detail-oriented, self-motivated, and comfortable working independently and asynchronously Nice to Have - Experience across multiple cloud providers (AWS, GCP, and/or Azure) - Background in cloud security certifications (AWS Security Specialty, CCSP, etc.) - Familiarity with frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK for Cloud, CIS Benchmarks, or NIST - Prior experience with AI evaluation or data labeling projects Why Join Us - Work directly on frontier AI systems used by the world's top research labs - Fully remote and flexible — work on your own schedule - Freelance perks: autonomy, variety, and global collaboration - Meaningful impact: your expertise shapes how AI understands and reasons about cloud security - Potential for ongoing work and contract extension
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