I'm naturally lazy as well....also most of my life was spent working as a sysadmin in one form or another....thats the type of job where laziness can be rewarded in the sense that you mentioned: If I can figure ways to automate tasks then it means more free time for me, but interestingly that directly benefits the company as well (ie. reformatting a failed server automatically vs having to fix it by hand).

The problem with that is its hard to transfer that knowledge! I mean, that I have systems-upon-systems to help with that automation. For instance, if rolling out a new server for a client, I can use Intel vPRO + PXE server + kickstart + ansible + vpns to do that anywhere in the enterprise....I can do this all from my lounge chair with a few clicks. However its hard to onboard new help because its all a bit of a rube-goldberg contraption, added that I'm lazy so don't do documentation well....

Ultimately, from an HR perspective it would be best to pair lazy-but-creative types with methodical-and-proactive types so that each could buffer the weaknesses of the other.