Cloud Engineer vs Systems Administrator
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
Systems Administrator
$112,000 typical, a year
Most Systems Administrators earn $94,000 to $135,000 a year.
From 1,313 postings that list pay
3,268 open jobs now
Cloud Engineers typically earn about $39,500 more a year than Systems Administrators.
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
Systems Administrator
- Install, configure, and maintain servers, operating systems, and related infrastructure.
- Monitor system performance and troubleshoot hardware and software issues.
- Manage network devices, connectivity, and security protocols.
- Implement and maintain backup, recovery, and disaster recovery plans.
- Administer user accounts, access rights, and identity management systems.
- Provide technical support and training to end users.
Summed up from 30 job postings
Skills employers ask for
Cloud Engineer
Asked for in both
- Azure 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
- 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
- Observability 3 in 10 postings
Systems Administrator
Asked for in both
- Azure 2 in 10 postings
More common in Systems Administrator postings
- System Administration 5 in 10 postings
- Linux 3 in 10 postings
- Technical Degree 3 in 10 postings
- Windows Server 3 in 10 postings
- Active Directory 3 in 10 postings
- PowerShell 2 in 10 postings
- Scripting 2 in 10 postings
- Firewalls 2 in 10 postings
- Bachelor's Degree 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
Systems Administrator
- Pay not stated Jacksonville, FL, United States OnsiteChange ManagementLinuxLog AnalysisRoot Cause AnalysisSystems Analysis +1
JWICS Systems Administrator
System HighPay not stated Hurlburt Field, FL 32544SAPCCNANIPRNETCOMSECCISSPSenior System Administrator
SambaNova$160k - $190k/yrstated San Jose, California, United StatesKubernetesDHCPNetAppAnsibleDomain Name System +9
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