Cloud Engineer vs Cybersecurity Analyst
Pay, skills and open jobs side by side, from current job postings across the US.
Pay
Cloud Engineer
$151,500 typical, a year
Most Cloud Engineers earn $126,800 to $175,500 a year.
From 1,378 postings that list pay
2,769 open jobs now
Cybersecurity Analyst
$136,500 typical, a year
Most Cybersecurity Analysts earn $110,000 to $162,000 a year.
From 1,301 postings that list pay
2,945 open jobs now
Cloud Engineers typically earn about $15,000 more a year than Cybersecurity Analysts.
What each one does
Cloud Engineer
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.
- Manage and provision cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools.
- Monitor system health, performance, and availability using observability tools.
- Respond to alerts, outages, and incidents to restore service.
- Implement and maintain security best practices and access controls.
- Collaborate with software, data, and facilities teams to support environments.
Summed up from 30 job postings
Cybersecurity Analyst
- Monitor security systems and alerts to identify suspicious behavior and potential threats.
- Investigate and respond to cybersecurity incidents and security events.
- Conduct vulnerability assessments and scans to identify security weaknesses.
- Remediate security vulnerabilities and apply necessary patches.
- Collaborate with IT teams and stakeholders to implement security controls.
- Document security incidents, investigations, and response actions.
Summed up from 30 job postings
Skills employers ask for
Cloud Engineer
More common in Cloud Engineer postings
- Terraform 6 in 10 postings
- CI/CD 6 in 10 postings
- Kubernetes 6 in 10 postings
- AWS 6 in 10 postings
- Infrastructure as Code 5 in 10 postings
- DevOps 4 in 10 postings
- Python 4 in 10 postings
- Azure 4 in 10 postings
- Docker 3 in 10 postings
- Observability 3 in 10 postings
Cybersecurity Analyst
More common in Cybersecurity Analyst postings
- Cybersecurity 5 in 10 postings
- CISSP 4 in 10 postings
- NIST 3 in 10 postings
- Vulnerability Management 3 in 10 postings
- SIEM 3 in 10 postings
- Risk Management 3 in 10 postings
- Incident Management 2 in 10 postings
- Information Security 2 in 10 postings
- Bachelor's Degree 2 in 10 postings
- Security & Compliance 2 in 10 postings
Out of each role's current postings.
Open jobs
Cloud Engineer
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Clearent$150k - $180k/yrstated Remote, OR, United StatesPostgreSQLTerraformRedisObservabilityAWS +14Information Technology Infrastructure Engineer - Cloud SRE and Automation
Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association$108k - $130k/yrstated Penn Center - Denver, CO 80203 HybridPythonBashPowerShellArgoCDGitHub Actions +15Information Technology Infrastructure Engineer - Cloud Platform
Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association$108k - $130k/yrstated Penn Center - Denver, CO 80203 HybridCI/CDPythonBashTerraformVulnerability Management +18
Cybersecurity Analyst
Security Operation Center (SOC) Analyst II
System HighPay not stated Colorado Springs, CO 80912SIEMActive DirectoryIncident ManagementDHCPFirewalls +14Cybersecurity Analyst
Boeing$87k - $155k/yrstated AL- HuntsvilleVulnerability ManagementAuditingScrumRisk ManagementCybersecurity +2
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