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Healthcare DevOps
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Ship faster without risking PHI and uptime. We build secure cloud foundations, compliant CI/CD, and implement the best observability and DevOps practices for healthcare scale-ups and enterprises.

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Why healthcare DevOps is different (and how we help)?

To succeed, healthcare startups need the velocity of a modern SaaS with the control of a regulated vendor. With MindK, you get baked-in compliance, resilience, and cost control from day one.

Slow, risky release cycles

Overcome slow and vulnerable pipelines that create audit bottlenecks. Adopt a compliant CI/CD approach with trunk‑based development and policy‑as‑code, security testing, SBOM and provenance for Docker images, as well as e‑signature approvals for regulated changes.

PHI in non‑prod environments

Deploy safe data and analytics with DevSecOps controls to generate de‑identified or synthetic data. Our team applies masking and tokenization, enforces CI checks that block PHI artifacts, and confines secrets under least‑privilege IAM.

Fragile infrastructure

Our healthcare DevOps engineers harden EKS/AKS (Pod Security, network policies, runtime protection), provision Terraform/Terragrunt landing zones, implement GitOps (Argo CD) with blue/green and canary releases, as well as validate disaster recovery through regular tests.

Noisy alerting

Decrease alert noise by 40–60%. MindK defines golden signals and SLOs with error budgets, correlates metrics, logs, and traces using correlation IDs, and routes alerts to the right owners. We also help you adopt runbooks, post‑mortems, and incident drills.

Rising cloud costs

Without ownership or guardrails, cloud spending drifts upward. Our healthcare FinOps introduces right‑sizing and autoscaling, safe Spot adoption, storage lifecycle management, budgets and showback, anomaly detection, and checks that block waste.

Audit evidence gaps

Healthcare buyers and auditors expect proof of who changed what, when, and why. We provide an audit‑ready evidence bundle with versioned IaC and GitOps, SBOMs and signed artifacts with build provenance, and immutable logs.

DevOps services for healthcare companies

Compliant CI/CD & DevSecOps

Establish an audit-friendly delivery pipeline. We set up trunk‑based development with protected branches and enforce policy‑as‑code to evaluate every change against your controls. We then wire CI/CD to run security tests, sign container images, and establish supply chain security. As a result, you get faster releases with provable controls and zero PHI in pipelines.

Trunk‑based developmentas Code (IaC)
Policy‑as‑code
Secrets management and key rotation
Security testing (SAST, DAST, SCA)
SBOM with provenance
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Kubernetes and secure infrastructure

Spin up reproducible and secure environments for PHI workloads in under 60 minutes. Health tech DevOps engineers provision multi‑account landing zones with Terraform/Terragrunt, segment networks, and create private links to EHR and payer systems.

EKS/AKS hardening
Blue/green and canary releases
Validated rollbacks
GitOps
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Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Maintain high reliability despite rapid software updates. We define golden signals and SLOs with error budgets, plan capacity, and run game days to simulate failure modes before patients are affected.

Metrics, logs, and traces
Disaster recovery testing
On‑call and runbook redesign
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FinOps for healthcare organizations

Reduce cloud costs by 20–30% without risking compliance. Our FinOps specialist baseline and right‑size compute and storage resources, configure autoscaling, and implement cost-saving measures like Spot Instances.

Lifecycle and archival policies
Cost allocation and showback
Anomaly alerts
Blocking of untagged or oversized resources
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Safe data analytics

Analyze and test without putting PHI at risk. We generate de‑identified or synthetic datasets for non‑production environments. Field‑level masking and deterministic tokens allow your developers and analysts to work safely.

Lineage, role‑based access control
Immutable logs and retention, and design
HIPAA‑aligned data lakes & warehouses
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How DevOps is transforming healthcare

Explore the case studies of compaies that benefited from our DevOps services.

  • Background for

    USA

    Achieving SOC Type II certification

    Multi-tenant SaaS application, USA

    A US scale-up needed a SOC 2 Type II certification and ongoing HIPAA compliance to serve some of the country’s top clinics. The key concerns included infrastructure reusability, tenant data isolation, and continuous monitoring. We developed a modular Terragrunt framework and established a measurable, audit-ready posture using Datadog and Vanta:

    • Access control: 100% enforcement of IMDSv2, hardware & virtual MFA, role-based access, no root key usage.
    • Data protection: S3, EC2, RDS, and EBS encryption with AWS KMS; public access blocked across all S3 buckets.
    • IAM hygiene: no wildcard IAM trust policies, admin roles blocked on EC2, stale credentials rotated.
    • Audit & monitoring: VPC flow logs, CloudTrail log encryption, access logging on all critical services.
    • Container security: kubelet TLS auth, root-only config ownership, disabled anonymous kubelet ports.
  • Background for

    The Lactation Network, USA

    Audit-ready HIPAA compliance posture

    Cloud-based EMR solution

    We developed the first EMR tailored to the needs and charting habits of certified lactation consultants. MindK helped the client adopt the AWS Well-Architected Framework and continuous HIPAA compliance practices.

    • Reuse of the modular Terragrunt framework with universal configs to easily create, modify, and reuse infrastructure components.
    • S3 buckets replication with encryption, event logging, and access logging.
    • AWS Backups plans with retention rules for all data resources with rotation and IAM roles.
    • Customer-managed KMS keys with corresponding service role policies.
    • Execution and access logs with KMS keys and appropriate policies.
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    How we work

    Here's what you can expect from working with MindK, from the intro call to long-term maintenance and project handover.

    Intro consultation + NDA (48h)

    In a 90-minute session, we explore your product goals, constraints, SLAs/OLAs, and compliance scope. Our companies sign a mutual NDA, confirm BAA needs, and agree on the lightest read‑only access to existing artifacts.

    What you get: preliminary risk register, pilot hypothesis with success metrics; access & artifact checklist.

    01

    Discovery (≤14 days)

    With read‑only access, we map your state across five lenses: cloud/network, CI/CD, runtime, observability/SRE, and compliance/cost (PHI flows, evidence, tagging, ownership, unit cost). Our DevOps consultants then rank findings by impact, effort, and audit risk.

    What you get: DevOps roadmap, HIPAA/SOC 2 control matrix, DORA metrics baseline, disaster recovery report, savings opportunities.

    02

    Pilot & hardening

    Our team implements a single, high‑impact service (such as a patient onboarding API, claims submission pipeline, or a scheduling service) end-to-end. With repeatable IaC, gated CI/CD, GitOps, observability, SLOs, and disaster recovery, we prove measurable gains on real traffic.

    What you get: a production‑ready pilot service, versioned Terraform module, Argo CD app with rollback plan, CI pipelines, cost guardrails.

    03

    Scale‑out

    We turn pilot patterns into a reusable platform. We ship a platform repo with Terraform module/catalog and CI templates, define org‑wide policies, centralize secrets/registries, and standardize GitOps governance.

    What you get: repository with a module/template catalog, governance/policy docs, migration plan, an adoption dashboard, runbook library.

    04

    Operation and support

    Medical DevOps engineers run an SRE cadence with weekly reviews, enforce error budgets, and continuously tune alerts. We continuously produce audit evidence, support auditors, and optimize spend.

    What you get: monthly ops report, refreshed evidence pack ready for audits, quarterly DR test reports, cost optimization summary.

    05

    Choose your service option

    Select among flexible options the one that fits your business the best. When the time comes, we can execute Build‑Operate‑Transfer with training, playbooks, and measurable exit criteria.

    Our tech stack

    We start from proven delivery patterns and business requirements. The team chooses equivalent, vendor‑approved options with adequate security, compliance, and cost. No tool worship, just fit‑for‑purpose choices.
    • Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services
    • Microsoft Azure Microsoft Azure
    • Google Cloud Platform Google Cloud Platform
    • Vanta Vanta
    • Kubernetes Kubernetes
    • Helm Helm
    • Ansible Ansible
    • Terraform Terraform
    • Istio Istio
    • Terragrunt Terragrunt
    • ArgoCD ArgoCD
    • Docker Docker
    • Vagrant Vagrant
    • SonarQube SonarQube
    • Prometheus Prometheus
    • Grafana Grafana
    • Loki Loki
    • Zabbix Zabbix
    • Datadog Datadog
    • ELK Stack ELK Stack
    • GitLab GitLab
    • GitHub GitHub
    • Bitbucket Bitbucket
    • Jenkins Jenkins
    • CircleCI CircleCI

    What you get

    Explore typical DevOps deliverables for healthcare organizations.

    Modular, reusable IaC

    Hardened CI/CD

    Kubernetes + GitOps

    SLOs/SLIs for site reliability

    Observability and alerting

    IAM, secrets management

    HIPAA/SOC 2 control mappings

    Change histories & pipeline screenshots

    Knowledge transfer

    HIPAA controls and audit evidence

    Explore the controls we implement for HIPAA‑covered workloads and the audit evidence you can expect from MindK.

    BAA and PHI boundaries

    We sign a BAA and confine PHI to production systems. Non‑production uses de‑identified or synthetic data enforced by CI checks and least‑privilege IAM.

    Immutable logging and retention

    The team maintains an immutable audit trail with centralized logging (WORM/immutability). They also sign build artifacts with recorded provenance.

    Change control with approvals

    MindK embeds approval/e‑signature steps into CI/CD. Every regulated change has a tamper‑evident history.

    Data‑handling safeguards

    Our DevOps experts apply field‑level masking/tokenization and deterministic tokens for identifiers. Role‑based access is reviewed on a fixed cadence.

    Disaster‑recovery proof

    We test RTO/RPO targets, run scheduled backup/restore drills, and retain drill logs with pass/fail criteria and timestamps.

    Need more information?

    Schedule a free nonbinding consultation with our DevOps consultants.
    Free nonbinding cosultation

    Why MindK

    We provide healthcare‑native DevOps, not generic IT services.

    15+ years of experience

    Our teams work daily with HIPAA, SOC II, payer integrations, and BAA obligations. We design controls that fit PHI workflows, not fight them.

    01

    Evidence‑first delivery

    Get artifacts that an auditor can verify: signed SBOMs and provenance, immutable logs, change histories, and control mappings bundled as a living evidence pack.

    02

    Faster time‑to‑value

    We apply reusable patterns, Terraform, and GitOps modules to shrink environment lead time from days to under 60 minutes.

    03

    Cost you can defend

    Get compliant without ballooning the bills using FinOps guardrails like right-sizing, autoscaling, storage tiers, and usage budgets.

    04

    What
    our
    clients
    say

    • Allison Erickson

      Allison Erickson

      Director of Product, The Lactation Network

      Allison Erickson

      Incredibly impressed by their ability to deliver such quality work in such efficient timing

      «I have nothing but great things to say about our partnership with MindK and the solid work they have done and continue to do for the growth of our company. Professionally, they are amazingly lovely people to work with. Our rapport is strong which is a reflection of their professionalism, hard work, and great outputs.»

    • Alexander Radchenko

      CEO, Radenia AG,
      Switzerland

      Transparency and focus
      on business value

      «I've been working with multiple IT services providers for more than two decades and what sets MindK team apart is transparency, focus on business value and quality of the services provided.»

    • Riccardo Pessina

      Riccardo Pessina

      Head of Operations, Bitrock Srl
      Italy

      Riccardo Pessina

      MindK is one of the best in terms of quality

      «We collaborate with various partners but MindK is one of the best in terms of quality of profile proposed and time to market. MindK has provided top-notch and highly-skilled resources.»

    • Zaheer Mohiuddin

      Zaheer Mohiuddin

      Co-Founder, Levels.fyi
      USA

      Zaheer Mohiuddin

      This isn't your typical outsourcing shop

      «The quality of work and the interactions with the team felt akin to anyone that I've worked within the Bay Area in technology. MindK's expertise is for real and the bar is high. This isn't your typical outsourcing shop, MindK has top-notch engineers and PMs.»

    • Yokoy

      Yokoy

      Talent Acquisition Expert, Yokoy
      Switzerland

      Yokoy

      The workflow was very effective

      «The cloud migration project could be accelerated and we were able to focus on other topics within DevOps and Cloud. The workflow was very effective, the communication went very well and all deadlines were met. There were no issues whatsoever at any time. Their pace, level of service, and quality aren't always easy to find amongst vendors.»

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      We refactor brittle monoliths into service‑oriented, cloud‑ready components using patterns like strangler‑fig, domain‑driven design, and feature flags. The work includes dependency audits, data‑migration runbooks, and blue/green cutovers. The goal is to minimize downtime while keeping PHI within approved boundaries and preserving validation documentation.

      Interoperability & API integrations

      Make data easily available across the health care ecosystem. We design, secure, and operate integrations across HL7 v2, FHIR R4/US Core, and payer EDI (e.g., 837/835) with idempotent messaging, retries, and dead‑letter queues. Deliverables include mapping specs, terminology bindings, consent/audit hooks, and traceable API gateway policies with least‑privilege access.

      Test automation for regulated releases

      Establish a layered test strategy backed by synthetic PHI, including unit, contract, end‑to‑end, performance, and security testing. Each requirement links to tests in a traceability matrix, CI gates enforce coverage and quality thresholds, and reports are packaged as audit evidence.

      Cloud and reverse migration

      We plan and execute phased moves to AWS/Azure using landing zones, network segmentation, and workload‑by‑workload cutovers. MindK can also build a governed lake/warehouse with de‑identification pipelines, lineage, and RBAC so analytics teams can move fast without risking compliance.

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        Contact our healthcare
        DevOps consultants

        Tell us about your project. We’ll sign an NDA and return in ≤14 days
        with a practical roadmap and quick wins you can ship immediately.

        FAQ

        • Do you sign a BAA and scope HIPAA correctly?

          Yes. We scope PHI data flows, sign a BAA, and enforce technical safeguards such as access control, encryption, and audit controls. The team also captures verifiable evidence in pipelines and logs.

        • How fast can we see the value?

          Within the first sprint, we target a pilot service with IaC module, gated CI, and baseline observability. This will demonstrate measurable lead time/error rate improvements.

        • Will you replace our tools?

          If current tools meet requirements, we standardize and harden them. If they block compliance or scale, MindK suggests phased migrations with rollback plans and clear ROI.

        • Can you work on‑prem or hybrid?

          Absolutely. We can deploy on‑prem GitLab/registries and private runners, and connect them to cloud landing zones over private links. All actions are logged to maintain a full audit trail.

        • How do you keep PHI out of non‑prod?

          MindK uses de‑identification or synthetic data, apply masking and tokenization to all non‑production datasets. CI checks prevent PHI artifacts from entering builds, and non‑prod IAM cannot access production secrets.

        • How do you collect change control evidence?

          We manage infrastructure as code and sign artifacts with an SBOM and provenance. Regulated changes include e‑signature approvals, and every step is recorded in tamper‑evident logs mapped to control families.

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