Automation Engineer

ByteHire; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote within the US

Job summary

ByteHire is seeking an Automation Engineer to build production automation that retrieves and processes data from healthcare systems where APIs are limited. The role focuses on secure authentication, including MFA, credential management, and access controls, and on replacing manual processes with reliable automated workflows.

You will design, implement, and maintain automation across multiple customer environments, leveraging tools like Airflow, UiPath, and cloud schedulers, while ensuring

Qualifications

• Experience automating desktop, RDP, or virtual applications without reliable APIs.
• Experience building reliable unattended automation.
• Strong knowledge of error handling, retries, monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Experience with MFA, secure credentials, RBAC, and IAM.
• Experience building file/data workflows involving validation and cloud storage.
• Knowledge of schedulers or orchestration tools such as Airflow, cron, Cloud Scheduler, or UiPath Orchestrator.
• Experience securely handling sensitive data within healthcare or another regulated industry.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• EMR/EHR automation experience, including platforms such as Epic, Oracle Health/Cerner, athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, NextGen, or similar.
• RPA experience with UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Power Automate Desktop, Blue Prism, or pywinauto.
• Experience operating automation across multiple customer environments.
• AWS, MySQL, GitLab CI/CD, or PHP experience.
• Experience integrating SFTP, SharePoint, Box, or similar platforms.
• Knowledge of PII/PHI security requirements.
• Exposure to Vertex AI, Amazon Bedrock, or similar AI services.

Responsibilities

• Create scheduled workflows for data collection, validation, processing, and cloud delivery.
• Implement secure authentication, including MFA, credential management, and access controls.
• Maintain automations as applications, systems, and interfaces change.
• Replace manual spreadsheet and file-transfer processes with automated workflows.
• Implement retries, monitoring, structured logging, recovery, and alerting.
• Ensure sensitive healthcare information is processed securely and reliably.

Skills

Unattended automation

Automation design

Error handling

Monitoring

MFA & IAM

RBAC

Data workflows

Healthcare data security

EMR/EHR automation

RPA concepts

Multi-environment automation

AI services exposure

Troubleshooting

Tools

Airflow

cron

UiPath Orchestrator

UiPath

Power Automate Desktop

Blue Prism

pywinauto

Cloud Scheduler

AWS

MySQL

GitLab CI/CD

SFTP

SharePoint

Box

Job description

Our client is a growing healthcare technology business developing software and data solutions that improve how clinical and operational information is managed. Their technology supports healthcare organisations working with large volumes of sensitive data across multiple systems and environments.

The engineering team is expanding, with a strong focus on automation, data reliability, security, and reducing manual operational processes.

About the role:

Our client is looking for an Automation Engineer to build production automation that retrieves and processes data from healthcare systems where APIs are limited or unavailable.

Responsibilities:

Create scheduled workflows for data collection, validation, processing, and cloud delivery.

Implement secure authentication, including MFA, credential management, and access controls.

Maintain automations as applications, systems, and interfaces change.

Replace manual spreadsheet and file-transfer processes with automated workflows.

Implement retries, monitoring, structured logging, recovery, and alerting.

Ensure sensitive healthcare information is processed securely and reliably.

Key Experience:

Experience automating desktop, RDP, or virtual applications without reliable APIs.

Experience building reliable unattended automation.

Strong knowledge of error handling, retries, monitoring, logging, and alerting.

Experience with MFA, secure credentials, RBAC, and IAM.

Experience building file/data workflows involving validation and cloud storage.

Knowledge of schedulers or orchestration tools such as Airflow, cron, Cloud Scheduler, or UiPath Orchestrator.

Experience securely handling sensitive data within healthcare or another regulated industry.

Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

EMR/EHR automation experience, including platforms such as Epic, Oracle Health/Cerner, athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, NextGen, or similar.

RPA experience with UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Power Automate Desktop, Blue Prism, or pywinauto.

Experience operating automation across multiple customer environments.

AWS, MySQL, GitLab CI/CD, or PHP experience.

Experience integrating SFTP, SharePoint, Box, or similar platforms.

Knowledge of PII/PHI security requirements.

Exposure to Vertex AI, Amazon Bedrock, or similar AI services.

Why Join?

Fully remote position within the US.

Take ownership of production automation from design through ongoing operation.

Work with modern cloud, data, and automation technologies.

Join a growing engineering team where automation will play an important role in the company's future platform.

Build systems that directly reduce manual work and improve the reliability of healthcare operations.