I keep the path from a developer's commit to production short, boring, and reliable. Boring is the point — a deploy should be the least eventful part of anyone's day.
I'd rather spend a week automating a manual process than repeat it a hundred times by hand — if it can be scripted, monitored, or provisioned as code, it should be. Good infrastructure is the kind nobody has to think about.
Working on something at the infrastructure layer, hiring for it, or just want to trade notes on how things actually work underneath? My inbox is open — or put 30 minutes straight into my calendar.