Cloud Engineer vs DevOps Engineer (SRE)
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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
DevOps Engineer
$161,300 typical, a year
Most SREs earn $138,200 to $194,500 a year.
From 591 postings that list pay
1,507 open jobs now
SREs typically earn about $9,800 more a year than Cloud Engineers.
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
DevOps Engineer
- Build and maintain infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform and Ansible.
- Design and operate Kubernetes clusters to run containerized applications.
- Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate software deployment processes.
- Monitor system performance and troubleshoot infrastructure issues to ensure reliability.
- Support cloud infrastructure platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Implement security controls and manage access for cloud and container environments.
Summed up from 30 job postings
Skills employers ask for
Cloud Engineer
Asked for in both
- 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
- Docker 3 in 10 postings
More common in Cloud Engineer postings
- Azure 4 in 10 postings
- Observability 3 in 10 postings
DevOps Engineer
Asked for in both
- Terraform 5 in 10 postings
- CI/CD 6 in 10 postings
- Kubernetes 7 in 10 postings
- AWS 5 in 10 postings
- Infrastructure as Code 4 in 10 postings
- DevOps 4 in 10 postings
- Python 5 in 10 postings
- Docker 4 in 10 postings
More common in SRE postings
- Ansible 4 in 10 postings
- Bash 3 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
DevOps Engineer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
TRM Labs$205k - $245k/yrstated San Francisco, California RemotePythonAWSObservabilityCI/CDKubernetes +11Platform/Kubernetes Engineer
JoinDevOpsPay not stated Las Vegas, NV, United StatesGrafanaPythonLinuxPowerShellOpenSearch +19- Pay not stated North Charleston, SC, United StatesTerraformDockerCI/CDJenkinsArgoCD +11
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