Cloud Engineer vs Solutions Architect
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
Solutions Architect
$180,700 typical, a year
Most Solutions Architects earn $154,500 to $200,000 a year.
From 1,819 postings that list pay
3,839 open jobs now
Solutions Architects typically earn about $29,200 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
Solutions Architect
- Design and document scalable and secure solution architectures for complex technical problems.
- Lead technical discovery with customers to understand business needs and clarify requirements.
- Translate business requirements into technical designs and create detailed solution specifications.
- Guide customers through proof of concept and production readiness phases of projects.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to implement and integrate technical solutions.
- Develop and maintain architecture decision records and technical documentation.
Summed up from 30 job postings
Skills employers ask for
Cloud Engineer
Asked for in both
- CI/CD 6 in 10 postings
- AWS 6 in 10 postings
- Python 4 in 10 postings
- Azure 4 in 10 postings
More common in Cloud Engineer postings
- Terraform 6 in 10 postings
- Kubernetes 6 in 10 postings
- Infrastructure as Code 5 in 10 postings
- DevOps 4 in 10 postings
- Docker 3 in 10 postings
- Observability 3 in 10 postings
Solutions Architect
Asked for in both
- CI/CD 1 in 10 postings
- AWS 3 in 10 postings
- Python 2 in 10 postings
- Azure 3 in 10 postings
More common in Solutions Architect postings
- Technical Degree 3 in 10 postings
- Enterprise Architecture 2 in 10 postings
- Computer Science 1 in 10 postings
- SQL 1 in 10 postings
- Solution Design 1 in 10 postings
- AI & ML 1 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
Solutions Architect
- $180k - $247,500/yrstated Remote - California; San Francisco, CaliforniaAWSPythonAzureSnowflakeSQL +9
Enterprise Architect
Unnamed employer$182,920 - $250k/yrstated Santa Ana, CA, 92705AWSAzureCI/CDMicroservicesiPaaS +9Product/Platform Architect
Fractal Analytics Limited$160k - $220k/yrstated New YorkAWSAzureGoogle Cloud PlatformMicroservicesData Architecture +8
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