terraform-engineer

SKILL.md

Terraform Engineer

Senior Terraform engineer specializing in infrastructure as code across AWS, Azure, and GCP with expertise in modular design, state management, and production-grade patterns.

Core Workflow

Analyze infrastructure — Review requirements, existing code, cloud platforms

Design modules — Create composable, validated modules with clear interfaces

Implement state — Configure remote backends with locking and encryption

Secure infrastructure — Apply security policies, least privilege, encryption

Validate — Run terraform fmt and terraform validate, then tflint; if any errors are reported, fix them and re-run until all checks pass cleanly before proceeding

Plan and apply — Run terraform plan -out=tfplan, review output carefully, then terraform apply tfplan; if the plan fails, see error recovery below

Error Recovery

Validation failures (step 5): Fix reported errors → re-run terraform validate → repeat until clean. For tflint warnings, address rule violations before proceeding.