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 train and evaluate cutting-edge AI models on cloud infrastructure security. Your hands-on expertise will directly shape how the next generation of AI reasons about cloud risk. - 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, misconfigurations, and failure patterns - Review and evaluate IAM, networking, storage, and container security issues in realistic contexts - 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 helps frontier AI models think like a seasoned cloud security practitioner 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 - Familiar with real-world misconfigurations, incident patterns, and their downstream consequences - Able to reason clearly about blast radius, risk exposure, and business impact - Self-motivated and comfortable working independently on task-based assignments Nice to Have - Experience with cloud security tooling (e.g., AWS Security Hub, GCP Security Command Center, Azure Defender) - Background in penetration testing, red teaming, or cloud incident response - Familiarity with frameworks like CIS Benchmarks, NIST, or the Cloud Security Alliance guidelines - Prior experience contributing to AI training or evaluation projects Why Join Us - Work directly on frontier AI systems alongside top research labs - Fully remote and flexible — work on your own schedule - Freelance perks: autonomy, variety, and global collaboration - Make a meaningful impact on how AI understands and reasons about real-world cloud security - Potential for ongoing work and contract extension
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