What is an automation engineer? A growing role to address IT automation

Image credit: Thinkstock. Article by Sarah K. White. CIO – August 4, 2023.

IT automation engineers help develop, test, and implement technologies aimed at automating business, IT, and development processes — a growing business imperative.

Automation has been a hot topic in the job market for several years now, with plenty of pros and cons surrounding both the idea of job creation and job loss. A study from Zippia found that automation has the potential to eliminate 73 million jobs by 2030, with 35% of Americans worried about automation displacing them and 25% of American jobs “highly susceptible” to automation. […]

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