Cloud Security Analyst
About this role
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 looking for experienced cloud security practitioners to help us make AI smarter about how cloud environments actually fail in the real world. This is a unique opportunity to apply your hands-on security expertise to frontier AI — working on datasets and evaluations that directly shape how AI reasons about cloud security incidents, misconfigurations, and risk. - Organization: Alignerr - Type: Hourly Contract - Location: Remote - Commitment: 10–40 hours/week What You'll Do - Analyze real-world 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 business impact - Validate and improve AI-generated security reasoning so it accurately reflects how cloud incidents unfold - Provide structured, expert feedback that directly improves AI security intelligence 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 - Experienced with real-world misconfigurations and security incidents - Able to reason clearly about blast radius, risk exposure, and downstream business impact - Detail-oriented and comfortable working independently on task-based assignments Nice to Have - Experience with cloud security certifications (AWS Security Specialty, CCSP, etc.) - Background in incident response or cloud penetration testing - Familiarity with compliance frameworks like SOC 2, CIS Benchmarks, or NIST 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 - Apply deep security expertise to a genuinely novel and impactful challenge - Potential for ongoing work and contract extension
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