Codifies infrastructure provisioning and configuration with Terraform, Ansible and pipelines.
Entry
Intermediate
Coding
High
Key skills
Career overview
The Infrastructure Automation Engineer turns infrastructure into code. They build reusable Terraform modules, Ansible roles and pipelines that provision, configure and drift-correct servers, networks and cloud resources. The role is the bridge between systems engineering and DevOps, leading to DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer or Infrastructure Architect.
Main responsibilities
- Describe infrastructure as code and version it
- Automate processes across the IT estate
- Automate recurring tasks with scripts
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
- Package and operate containerised workloads
- Monitor platform health, alerts and dashboards
- Prepare and execute change requests in production
- Keep technical documentation up to date
- Lead incident resolution and post-mortem analysis
- Build high availability and disaster recovery setups
Technical skills
Technologies
Education level
Education requirements vary depending on the company, country and experience. Professional experience, certifications and technical skills can sometimes compensate for formal education.
High School / Bac
Less common
Bac+2 (2-year degree)
Less common
Bac+3 (Bachelor)
Common entry point
Bac+5 (Master / Engineering)
Common entry point
Experience & coding level
Experience level
Coding level
Useful certifications
Certifications are never mandatory. They are one way among others to prove a skill.
- Terraform Associate
- Red Hat Certified Engineer
- AWS SysOps Administrator
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Overlap: 39% · Difficulty: Easy
Skills to learn: CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes
View roadmapOverlap: 38% · Difficulty: Hard
Skills to learn: Kubernetes, CI/CD at scale, Developer experience
View roadmapOverlap: 23% · Difficulty: Hard
Skills to learn: Infrastructure architecture, Storage & compute, DR & HA
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Soft skills
- Rigour and attention to detail
- Problem solving
- Autonomy
- Big-picture thinking
- Clear communication
- Documentation writing
- Technical curiosity
Common previous careers
Roles that frequently lead into this career.
Overlap: 62% · Difficulty: Easy
Skills to learn: Cloud provisioning, Networking, GitOps basics
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