Which roles ask for Cloud Infrastructure at tech companies · 121 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
121 roles counted that list Cloud Infrastructure, one per company, title and level; 343 postings in the window.
In short
Cloud Infrastructure: listed in 121 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 89 and preferred in 32. The largest group is software engineer roles: 40 of 121 (33%).
- Required
- 89 of 121 (74%)
- Of the roles that list Cloud Infrastructure
- Preferred
- 32 of 121 (26%)
- Of the roles that list Cloud Infrastructure
- Largest group
- 40 of 121 (33%)
- Software engineer
Roles that ask for Cloud Infrastructure
Roles listing Cloud Infrastructure, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.
| Role | Roles | Of the role's roles we read |
|---|---|---|
| Software engineer | 40 | 40 of 719 (6%) |
| DevOps engineer | 14 | 14 of 58 (24%) |
| Platform engineer | 13 | 13 of 57 (23%) |
| Site reliability engineer | 12 | 12 of 70 (17%) |
| Security engineer | 9 | 9 of 126 (7%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 8 | 8 of 79 (10%) |
| Forward deployed engineer | 7 | 7 of 63 (11%) |
| AI engineer | 4 | 4 of 70 (6%) |
| Data engineer | 3 | 3 of 99 (3%) |
| QA engineer | 3 | 3 of 63 (5%) |
Companies that ask for it most
- Deepgram4 roles
- Okta4 roles
- Anthropic3 roles
- CoreWeave3 roles
- Crusoe3 roles
- Palantir3 roles
- Databricks2 roles
- Harvey2 roles
- Netskope2 roles
- TASQ Staffing Solutions2 roles
Asked alongside
Out of the 121 Cloud Infrastructure roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 76 of 121 (63%) |
| AWS | 53 of 121 (44%) |
| CI/CD | 43 of 121 (36%) |
| Docker | 43 of 121 (36%) |
| Infrastructure as Code | 41 of 121 (34%) |
| Kubernetes | 41 of 121 (34%) |
| Terraform | 40 of 121 (33%) |
| Distributed Systems | 39 of 121 (32%) |
| Go | 39 of 121 (32%) |
| GCP | 34 of 121 (28%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| CI/CD | 16 of 121 (13%) |
| AI | 15 of 121 (12%) |
| Observability | 15 of 121 (12%) |
| Terraform | 14 of 121 (12%) |
| AI Agents | 12 of 121 (10%) |
| LLMs | 12 of 121 (10%) |
| Kubernetes | 10 of 121 (8%) |
| Open Source | 10 of 121 (8%) |
| Docker | 9 of 121 (7%) |
| Cybersecurity | 8 of 121 (7%) |
Experience
Of the 67 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 67 of 67 (100%)
- 2+ years
- 67 of 67 (100%)
- 3+ years
- 64 of 67 (96%)
- 5+ years
- 42 of 67 (63%)
- 8+ years
- 13 of 67 (19%)
- 10+ years
- 5 of 67 (7%)
Degree
Of the 92 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 17 of 92 (18%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 21 of 92 (23%)
- Preferred
- 6 of 92 (7%)
- Not mentioned
- 48 of 92 (52%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 121 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Median stated pay
- $182.5k a year
- Roles stating pay
- 55 of 121 (45%)
- Remote roles
- 77 of 121 (64%)
How we count: 121 roles from 97 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology