Cloud Security Analyst
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About the Role We partner with the world's leading AI research labs to build smarter, safer AI systems — and we need cloud security practitioners who know how cloud environments actually fail. This is a unique opportunity to apply your hands-on cloud security experience to frontier AI development. You'll analyze real-world scenarios, validate AI reasoning, and directly influence how the next generation of AI understands cloud infrastructure and security 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 based on real-world impact - Classify security gaps and cloud-related failures using your practitioner knowledge - Validate and improve AI-generated security reasoning to ensure it accurately reflects how cloud incidents actually unfold - Help shape datasets and evaluations that make AI smarter about cloud infrastructure security 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, vulnerabilities, and security incidents - Able to reason clearly about blast radius, risk exposure, and business impact - Self-directed, detail-oriented, and comfortable working asynchronously Nice to Have - Experience with cloud security tooling (e.g., AWS Security Hub, GCP Security Command Center, Defender for Cloud) - Background in incident response, penetration testing, or cloud architecture - Familiarity with compliance frameworks like SOC 2, CIS Benchmarks, or NIST - Prior experience with AI evaluation or data annotation workflows Why Join Us - Work directly on frontier AI systems with top research labs - Fully remote and flexible — work on your own schedule - Freelance perks: autonomy, variety, and global collaboration - Put your real-world cloud security expertise to work in a high-impact, meaningful way - Potential for ongoing work and contract extension
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