Cloud Engineer vs Frontend Developer
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
Frontend Developer
$175,000 typical, a year
Most Frontend Developers earn $141,400 to $207,100 a year.
From 181 postings that list pay
455 open jobs now
Frontend Developers typically earn about $23,500 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
Frontend Developer
- Design and develop user-facing web applications using modern frameworks.
- Collaborate with designers and product teams to create intuitive interfaces.
- Integrate front-end applications with backend APIs and services.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
- Optimize application performance and ensure responsiveness.
- Participate in code reviews and agile development processes.
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
Frontend Developer
More common in Frontend Developer postings
- React 8 in 10 postings
- TypeScript 7 in 10 postings
- Front-End Architecture 4 in 10 postings
- Front-End Technologies 4 in 10 postings
- JavaScript 4 in 10 postings
- Next.js 2 in 10 postings
- CSS 2 in 10 postings
- State Management 2 in 10 postings
- HTML 2 in 10 postings
- Code Review 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
Frontend Developer
Software Engineer II, Frontend (Banking)
Seattletech$152k - $190k/yrstated Seattle, Washington, US HybridWebpackReactViteGraphQLCross-Browser Compatibility +3Amazon Frontend Engineer II
Campus Building$143,700 - $194,400/yrstatedCSSJavaScriptHTMLReactAngular +10- Pay not stated New York, NYTypeScriptReactAngularSAMLOAuth 2.0 +25
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