Cloud Engineer vs Frontend Developer

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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

Cloud Engineer salaries Cloud Engineer jobs

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 Developer salaries Frontend Developer jobs

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

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