Cloud Engineer vs Security Engineer
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
Security Engineer
$170,000 typical, a year
Most Security Engineers earn $144,300 to $200,000 a year.
From 829 postings that list pay
1,706 open jobs now
Security Engineers typically earn about $18,500 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
Security Engineer
- Design and implement security controls, tools, and processes to protect systems and data.
- Monitor systems and networks to detect and respond to security threats and incidents.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to embed security into the software development lifecycle.
- Perform security assessments and penetration tests to identify vulnerabilities in applications.
- Conduct vulnerability scanning and analysis to find and fix security weaknesses.
- Manage identity and access controls to ensure secure authentication and authorization.
Summed up from 30 job postings
Skills employers ask for
Cloud Engineer
Asked for in both
- AWS 6 in 10 postings
- Python 4 in 10 postings
More common in Cloud Engineer postings
- Terraform 6 in 10 postings
- CI/CD 6 in 10 postings
- Kubernetes 6 in 10 postings
- Infrastructure as Code 5 in 10 postings
- DevOps 4 in 10 postings
- Azure 4 in 10 postings
- Docker 3 in 10 postings
- Observability 3 in 10 postings
Security Engineer
Asked for in both
- AWS 3 in 10 postings
- Python 3 in 10 postings
More common in Security Engineer postings
- Security Engineering 3 in 10 postings
- Threat Modeling 3 in 10 postings
- Cloud Security 3 in 10 postings
- Vulnerability Management 3 in 10 postings
- Network Security 3 in 10 postings
- CISSP 2 in 10 postings
- Cybersecurity 2 in 10 postings
- Secure Architecture 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
Security Engineer
Senior Security Engineer
Fanaticsfbg$128k - $160k/yrstated New York, NY, United States RemoteTerraformBashPatch ManagementEmail SecurityPython +16- Pay not stated Hoover, Alabama, United States of AmericaTerraformAWSPythonJenkinsGit +13
- $127k - $142k/yrstated Ashburn, VirginiaSTIGsVulnerability ManagementCISSPCybersecurityRisk Management +6
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