Cloud Engineer vs Database Administrator (DBA)

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

Database Administrator

• Install, configure, and maintain database software and systems.
• Monitor database health, availability, and performance.
• Implement and maintain backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Develop, optimize, and troubleshoot database objects and code.
• Manage database security, access controls, and compliance.
• Collaborate with development teams to design and support database solutions.

Summed up from 30 job postings

More common in Cloud Engineer postings

• CI/CD6 in 10
• Kubernetes6 in 10
• Terraform6 in 10
• AWS6 in 10
• Infrastructure as Code5 in 10
• DevOps5 in 10
• Python4 in 10
• Azure4 in 10
• Docker3 in 10
• Ansible3 in 10

More common in Database Administrator postings

• SQL Server5 in 10
• SQL5 in 10
• Database Administration4 in 10
• Oracle4 in 10
• Database Administrator3 in 10
• PostgreSQL3 in 10
• Database Security3 in 10
• Database Monitoring3 in 10
• SQL Performance Tuning3 in 10

Cloud Engineer

None stand out in current postings.

Database Administrator

• Technical Degree3 in 10