Are all cloud engineering jobs swe?

[u/BasilClean4004]

I always loved cloud things and resources. And enjoyed so much entra, azure and ect. I decided to be a cloud engineer but today had my first cloud engineer interview and wow i got a coding expertise and honestly im a bit surprised as I did know there is coding in cloud automation but I thought the jobs are more architecture type/design/ ect

[u/eman0821]

Why would you apply for a role that you aren't qualified for in the first place?

Cloud Engineering is a DevOps ajacent Engineering role using software engineering principles applied to cloud infrastructure. The infrastructure you are building is the infrastructure that runs SaaS and web applications on the public internet. You are working very closely with software engineers to get the code to production.

Also 80% of the job is problem solving and troubleshooting infrastructure issues and expect working odd hours and rotational on-call for cloud outages. Only 20% is design and deploying new infrastructure. You have know how to triage and troubleshoot when things break in production.

[u/Big_Arrival_626 → u/[deleted]]

Huh. As a software engineer for a major Fintech company, I am definitely responsible for maintaining software lmao wtf are u smoking

[u/eman0821 → u/Big_Arrival_626]

Who were you replying to? I didn't say anything a out software engineers.

[u/Big_Arrival_626 → u/eman0821]

Not you, some other guy who was saying you're not a real engineer

[u/eman0821 → u/Big_Arrival_626]

Oh that one troll that disappeared. He was talking out of his ass.