Cloud Security Analyst
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About the Role We partner with the world's leading AI research teams and labs to build and train cutting-edge AI models. Right now, we're building datasets and evaluations focused on cloud security and modern infrastructure — and we need practitioners who truly understand how cloud environments fail in the real world. This is a unique opportunity to apply your hands-on security expertise to directly shape how frontier AI systems reason about cloud risk, misconfigurations, and incident response. - Organization: Alignerr - Type: Hourly Contract - Commitment: 10–40 hours/week - Location: Fully Remote What You'll Do - Analyze real-world cloud security scenarios across AWS, GCP, and Azure to identify risks and failure patterns - Review IAM policies, networking configurations, storage permissions, and container security issues - Classify security gaps, misconfigurations, and cloud-related failures based on real-world impact and blast radius - Evaluate and improve AI-generated security reasoning to ensure it accurately reflects how cloud incidents actually unfold - Provide structured, expert feedback that directly improves the quality of AI security models Who You Are - 2+ years of hands-on experience working with cloud environments in production - Solid familiarity with cloud IAM, networking, storage, and container security concepts - Experience identifying and reasoning about real-world misconfigurations and security incidents - Ability to clearly articulate blast radius, risk exposure, and business impact - Self-motivated and comfortable working independently on async, task-based assignments Nice to Have - Experience across multiple cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) - Background in cloud security architecture, penetration testing, or incident response - Familiarity with AI evaluation or dataset annotation workflows - Relevant certifications (AWS Security Specialty, CCSP, GCSA, etc.) Why Join Us - Work directly on frontier AI systems alongside world-class research teams - Fully remote and flexible — work on your own schedule - Freelance perks: autonomy, variety, and global collaboration - Meaningful work that shapes how AI understands and reasons about real-world security - Potential for ongoing work and contract extension
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