Cloud Engineer vs DevOps Engineer - Differences and Overlaps of tasks and responsibilities

Differences and Overlaps of Cloud and DevOps Engineer Roles as well as deep dive of Cloud Engineer Tasks and Responsibilities

DevOps engineer and Cloud engineer are 2 popular roles in software engineering. But there is a lot of mix up of these two roles and many people and many companies often use them interchangeably. They mix the tasks and responsibilities of these two very often. For example there are plenty of job descriptions for "DevOps Cloud Engineer" or "Cloud DevOps Engineer", which would naturally make you think that they are the same role, but then why would you have two names for the same role? And that's exactly what I'm going to discuss and clarify in this video.

🔗💡 What is DevOps and DevOps Engineer Tasks and Responsibilities

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0:00 - Intro and why people mix up these two roles?
01:47 - DevOps Engineer role
02:46 - Different Objectives of DevOps and Cloud Engineer
04:02 - The need for Cloud Engineers
08:42 - Cloud Engineer Task: Configure with Best Practices
10:35 - Cloud Platform specific knowledge
13:36 - More Cloud Engineer Tasks and Responsibilities
15:58 - Infrastructure as Code
17:10 - Differences between DevOps and Cloud Engineer
17:39 - Overlaps between Cloud and DevOps Engineer
20:25 - Wrap Up

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[TechWorldwithNana]

Hope this video was helpful and that it gave you more clarity around these 2 roles! 😊 Do you work as a DevOps or Cloud engineer and see also the confusion and mix-up? Please share your experience and view on this topic, I’m sure it’s valuable for other viewers 😊

[jimmyihuoma]

Funny enough DevOps as a profession has no boundary. Companies will have you doing whatever suits them. Whether cloud or Devops, your task is dependent on whatever your company defines your role

[ultrasamad]

1:11 "Change light bulbs in the office"
You forgot to add "Fixing printers" 😂😂

[jwood]

Now we need a Cloud Engineer vs Solutions Architect - Differences and Overlaps video! Lol. Seems to be a bit of overlap there as well! Great video, Nana. Thank you!

[alexgabriel]

This is a great video. As a cloud engineer, I have seen how many people and companies can confuse the two roles. I think if I get questions on the differences, I'll just point them to this video as it's clear with enough detailed information to define the differences as well as the intersection of roles. Also, as a side note, my official title is "Senior Cloud Architect", although internally I am referred to as a Cloud Integrator. Ultimately, though, my role is that of a Cloud Engineer, so there's a lot of confusion even in my employer (a large telecommunications company).

[TechwithLucy]

Awesome explanation of this super common question! 👏

[ventin]

I am a Cloud Devops Engineer. With my roles and responsibilities, I can confirm that you are on point. From my experience so far, the focus for Devops = CI/CD, Cloud = IAC.

[brownsense]

I do not work in any of these fields, but I'm currently studying to be a cloud engineer via AWS. I just graduated from their re/start program, and say for the CCP exam today, and I passed!!!! I'm sure I was driving my instructor crazy trying to understand the difference between these two. Thanks for this video.

[theintjengineer]

I'm more amazed by your skills🤯
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[EbonySeraphim]

Based on my experience working at Amazon (AWS) as an SDE for almost 9 years, that role pretty much does everything. To manage some of the cloud engineering specifics better like security, production saftey, cost monitoring, etc there are internal processes that services had to go through to check that they were following the best practices and not slipping up somewhere.

[Chaosmr]

Thanks for this, I will show this video to recruiters because many of them dont know the difference between the two roles. They always contact me about DevOps roles when I am a Cloud Engineer.

[SaltyRecipes]

Companies be like : I don't see the difference. 1 guy can do it all.

[noedominguezz]

Excellent explanation. I have worn both hats, DevOps and Cloud Engineer. These roles can even get merged when working for startups or small companies. It's been a wonderful journey so far :)

[ronallan]

Great Video Nana! Well explained. I loved your Docker and Kubernetes course btw!

[techtalk]

I work as a DevOps engineer in my company and yeah most of the time I do a lot of infrastructure management as well. Like you mentioned, the parts that have to do with the application deployment.
Thanks for this informative video

[LucasMendes-sjrx]

Hello, I'm from Brazil. I'm learning English. Your content is very good. You speak very clearly, making it easy to understand. Congratulations!

[wassellaouini]

thank you so much for this! i studied both devops and cloud computing in during my acadmic years and now im working as a devops engineer and i always wanted a break down video about the specific differences

[prasadrao]

Hello Nana, Outstanding explanation has been done, its perfect way clear my doubts as of now, Many thanks

[tirthjoshi]

Thanks for making this video nana,
Most of the small or medium size companies hires DevOps Engineer with the cloud knowledge, so they can perform both task. Usually Large size companies only hire these both different roles.
Really informative, thanks 🙏

[bohdanpotishuk]

The video highlights various tasks related to cloud engineering, such as planning, cataloging services, and price optimization. However, due to the blurry boundaries between the roles of cloud engineer and solution architect, some of these tasks, such as solution architecture, may fall under the responsibility of both roles. In general, cloud engineers focus more on the implementation and operation of cloud services, while solution architects are more involved in the design and planning of cloud solutions.