Cloud Engineer vs Systems Analyst
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 Analyst
$105,100 typical, a year
Most Systems Analysts earn $82,000 to $131,600 a year.
From 238 postings that list pay
1,257 open jobs now
Cloud Engineers typically earn about $46,400 more a year than Systems Analysts.
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 Analyst
- Analyze business requirements and translate them into system specifications.
- Design, configure, and test software applications to meet user needs.
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues with software systems.
- Document system processes, workflows, and technical requirements.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to improve business processes and solutions.
- Lead or participate in the implementation of system upgrades and releases.
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
Systems Analyst
More common in Systems Analyst postings
- Epic 4 in 10 postings
- Epic Certification 3 in 10 postings
- Project Management 3 in 10 postings
- Bachelor's Degree 2 in 10 postings
- Workday 2 in 10 postings
- Microsoft Office 2 in 10 postings
- Technical Degree 2 in 10 postings
- Microsoft Excel 1 in 10 postings
- HRIS 1 in 10 postings
- Computer Science 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
Systems Analyst
- Pay not stated Rockledge, Florida, United StatesMicrosoft OutlookMicrosoft PowerPointMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft OfficeHealthcare IT +6
Epic Applications Analyst II - Epic
Health FirstPay not stated Rockledge, Florida, United StatesMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft OutlookMicrosoft PowerPointEpicHealthcare IT +7- Pay not stated US - NationalProject Management
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