Data Engineer vs DevOps Engineer (SRE)
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Pay
Data Engineer
$150,000 typical, a year
Most Data Engineers earn $126,800 to $177,100 a year.
From 1,328 postings that list pay
3,163 open jobs now
DevOps Engineer
$161,300 typical, a year
Most SREs earn $138,200 to $194,500 a year.
From 591 postings that list pay
1,507 open jobs now
SREs typically earn about $11,300 more a year than Data Engineers.
What each one does
Data Engineer
- Design and build scalable data pipelines to ingest and process large datasets.
- Develop and maintain data models using SQL and transformation tools.
- Implement data quality controls and monitoring to ensure system reliability.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Optimize data systems for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Document data architectures and provide technical guidance to the team.
Summed up from 30 job postings
DevOps Engineer
- Build and maintain infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform and Ansible.
- Design and operate Kubernetes clusters to run containerized applications.
- Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate software deployment processes.
- Monitor system performance and troubleshoot infrastructure issues to ensure reliability.
- Support cloud infrastructure platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Implement security controls and manage access for cloud and container environments.
Summed up from 30 job postings
Skills employers ask for
Data Engineer
Asked for in both
- Python 6 in 10 postings
- AWS 3 in 10 postings
More common in Data Engineer postings
- SQL 6 in 10 postings
- Data Engineering 6 in 10 postings
- Data Pipeline 4 in 10 postings
- Data Modeling 4 in 10 postings
- Databricks 3 in 10 postings
- ETL/ELT 3 in 10 postings
- Snowflake 3 in 10 postings
- Data Warehousing 3 in 10 postings
DevOps Engineer
Asked for in both
- Python 5 in 10 postings
- AWS 5 in 10 postings
More common in SRE postings
- Kubernetes 7 in 10 postings
- CI/CD 6 in 10 postings
- Terraform 5 in 10 postings
- DevOps 4 in 10 postings
- Infrastructure as Code 4 in 10 postings
- Docker 4 in 10 postings
- Ansible 4 in 10 postings
- Bash 3 in 10 postings
Out of each role's current postings.
Open jobs
Data Engineer
Lead Data Engineer
Mizuho Financial Group$112k - $200k/yrstated New York, NY (1271 AOA/6th Ave) HybridPythonAWSSQLApache AirflowAzure +18- Pay not stated GeorgiaTerraformDockerAWSApache KafkaCI/CD +15
DevOps Engineer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
TRM Labs$205k - $245k/yrstated San Francisco, California RemotePythonAWSObservabilityCI/CDKubernetes +11Platform/Kubernetes Engineer
JoinDevOpsPay not stated Las Vegas, NV, United StatesGrafanaPythonLinuxPowerShellOpenSearch +19- Pay not stated North Charleston, SC, United StatesTerraformDockerCI/CDJenkinsArgoCD +11
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