What does a Cloud Engineer do?
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What the job involves
- 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.
- Build and maintain automation using scripts and other tools.
- Participate in on-call rotations to support production systems.
Summed up from 30 recent Cloud Engineer job postings.
Skills employers ask for
- CI/CD 6 in 10 postings
- Infrastructure as Code 5 in 10 postings
- DevOps 5 in 10 postings
- Azure 4 in 10 postings
- Python 4 in 10 postings
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Certifications and licenses
- AWS Certification 1 in 10 postings
- DevOps Engineer Certificate 1 in 30 postings
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator 1 in 35 postings
- Azure Security Certification 1 in 40 postings
- Terraform Associate 1 in 40 postings
- Security Clearance 1 in 45 postings
- Microsoft Certifications 1 in 45 postings
- CompTIA Cloud+ Certification 1 in 50 postings
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Experience asked for
- No experience needed 1 in 65 postings
- 1 to 2 years 1 in 10 postings
- 3 to 4 years 3 in 10 postings
- 5 years or more 6 in 10 postings
Typical ask: 5 years.
Education asked for
- High school diploma or GED 1 in 115 postings
- Bachelor's degree Almost all postings
- Master's degree 1 in 115 postings
- Doctorate 1 in 115 postings
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Is this role in demand?
2,522 open Cloud Engineer jobs across the US right now.
Most openings
- Virginia373 open
- California362 open
- Texas206 open
- Maryland172 open
- New York158 open
Typical pay $151,500 a year (most between $127k and $176k). See the full salary breakdown