Overview of Automation Engineering

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Automation can help improve efficiency and address many IT workflow challenges.

Automation engineering is one of the hottest tech jobs of 2022, according to a recent CodingDojo survey, but it’s a relatively new job title within IT. 

This article from FOSSlife provides an overview of automation engineering and describes some of the duties and responsibilities associated with the role. For example, FOSSlife says, automation can be applied to many areas, such as: 

  • Infrastructure 
  • Networking
  • Cloud provisioning
  • Application deployment
  • Configuration management

Learn more at FOSSlife.

09/02/2022

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