The invention discloses a method and a device for preparing a nickel iron roasted ore by utilizing a lateritic nickel ore. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, grinding the lateritic nickel ore into an ore powder, then carrying out high-temperature roasting of the obtained ore powder, during the high-temperature roasting process, allowing the ore powder to be in a pre-reduction system and carry out a high-temperature preheating reduction reaction, followed by allowing the high-temperature roasted ore to go into a rotary kiln for high-temperature calcination, thus obtaining a roasted ore containing nickel pig iron after completing high-temperature calcination, and then after dipping the roasted ore into water for cooling, separating to obtain the nickel iron roasted ore. The device comprises a hopper-type elevator, an air chute, a chute draught fan, a rotary feeder, a sluice valve, a rotary kiln, a water-cooling stirring tank, a burner, a hot wind mixing chamber, a high-temperature draught fan, a cyclone dust remover, a bag-type dust remover, a chain-type conveyor, a burner and a pre-reduction system. The preparation method and the device allow the heat transfer area of the ore powder to be large, enable each particle to be uniformly and fully subjected to a chemical reaction, have short reaction time, and have high utilization rate of the lateritic nickel ore.