DevOps Engineer
Company: Skilled Wound Care
Location: Houston, TX (Remote)
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-04-30
About this role
Job Description:
Skilled Wound Care is seeking a hands-on DevOps Engineer to take ownership of the deployment, operation, and security of our healthcare software platforms — including our Electronic Health Record (EHR) system and our end-to-end Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) and billing platform. In this role, you will be the primary owner of how our applications are built, shipped, run, monitored, and secured in production. This is the first dedicated DevOps role at our company, and it is being created to formalize and grow this function as we scale. You will own the full scope of our application infrastructure on a day-to-day basis, with our Lead Software Developers serving as backup support for production emergencies and after-hours coverage. This position is focused exclusively on our software product infrastructure — the servers, cloud resources, containers, pipelines, and tooling that support our applications. You will not be responsible for general corporate IT systems such as file shares, remote desktop servers, internal VPNs, or end-user device management.
Because our platforms handle Protected Health Information (PHI), security and compliance are not afterthoughts — they are core to the role. You will work closely with our development team to ensure that everything we ship is reliable, performant, and compliant with HIPAA and our broader security program.
On-Call: This role includes participation in a primary on-call rotation for production incidents affecting our healthcare platforms, with the Lead Software Developers serving as secondary/backup coverage. We aim to keep on-call burden reasonable through strong monitoring, automation, and clearly documented runbooks.
Responsibilities:
- Own the deployment, configuration, and lifecycle management of our application servers and cloud infrastructure across development, staging, and production environments.
- Provision and manage AWS resources (EC2, VPC, RDS, S3, IAM, Route 53, ELB/ALB, CloudFron...