<div><strong><br>Part-Time Contract Systems Engineer and Administrator<br></strong><br></div><div><strong><br>Engagement Type</strong></div><div><br>Part-time contractor for ongoing infrastructure engineering and operational support. Servicing a variety of nonprofit ministry and business clients, and an internal micro-SaaS product.<br><br></div><div><strong>Hours and Availability<br></strong><br></div><ul><li><strong>October–December 2026:</strong> Estimated 5–20 hours per week, including onboarding, environment assessment, and prioritized improvements.</li><li><strong>Ongoing:</strong> Estimated 5–10 hours per week for maintenance, technical escalations, and planned improvements.</li><li>These ranges are estimates, not guaranteed hours. Work will be prioritized with Guidelight leadership within the agreed hours.</li><li>Your agreed working schedule must provide at least four hours of overlap with normal Eastern Time business hours.</li><li>Planned maintenance typically occurs around <strong>5:00 a.m. Eastern Time</strong>. Maintenance windows are flexible and can be arranged around contractor and client needs.</li><li>Availability is required for agreed maintenance windows, which may fall outside normal business hours.</li><li>Other team members or client IT provide primary on-call coverage. Urgent technical escalations require a response outside agreed working hours when your expertise is needed. These have been infrequent: approximately two in the past year.</li><li>Additional hours for major upgrades, incidents, or release cycles can be approved with prior notice.<br><br></li></ul><div><strong><br>Overview<br></strong><br></div><div>Guidelight Technology Solutions seeks a pragmatic, reliable Systems Engineer and Administrator to help <strong>design, maintain, and improve cloud and hybrid environments</strong> supporting client applications and our own micro-SaaS product.</div><div><br>You will work across three product and client environments, including AWS EC2 infrastructure and client-hosted Ubuntu systems. The work combines infrastructure design with hands-on operations: improving reliability and recoverability, maintaining servers and automation, supporting deployments, and implementing safe infrastructure changes.<br><br></div><div>You will collaborate with two full-time developers, Guidelight leadership, and client IT stakeholders. We are looking for someone who can assess an environment, explain practical tradeoffs, recommend improvements, and carry approved work through implementation and documentation.</div><div><strong><br>Guidelight’s owner remains the primary contact for customer requests and handles initial triage and prioritization.</strong> You will own assigned infrastructure work and technical escalations, coordinating directly with developers, client IT, and end users when needed to resolve those assignments.<br><br>Client work includes Pro-Life and other Christian nonprofits.</div><div><strong><br>Responsibilities<br><br></strong>1. Infrastructure Design and Improvement<br><br></div><ul><li>Assess existing environments and identify reliability, security, recovery, maintainability, and cost improvements.<br>Design and maintain highly available AWS EC2 environments.</li><li>Document proposed changes, practical tradeoffs, implementation plans, and recovery or rollback approaches.</li><li>Review recommendations with Guidelight leadership and implement approved designs.</li><li>Maintain a prioritized improvement backlog alongside routine operational work.<br><br></li></ul><div>2. Linux Systems Administration<br><br></div><ul><li>Administer Ubuntu Linux servers across staging, production, and other environments.</li><li>Perform OS patching, security updates, package upgrades, and planned maintenance.</li><li>Maintain container runtimes and supporting infrastructure services.</li><li>Apply configuration changes to meet client security policies.</li><li>Maintain baseline hardening, access controls, SSH hygiene, and environment separation.<br><br></li></ul><div>3. Operational Reliability and Monitoring<br><br></div><ul><li>Maintain and improve monitoring using AWS tooling and existing Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana stacks.</li><li>Tune dashboards and alerts so they are meaningful, actionable, and routed to the appropriate responders.</li><li>Expand monitoring coverage as services and deployment patterns change.</li><li>Investigate service failures, performance issues, and infrastructure anomalies.</li><li>Handle assigned technical escalations, involving developers or client IT as appropriate.</li><li>Develop and maintain runbooks and operational documentation.<br><br></li></ul><div>4. Backups and Recovery<br><br></div><ul><li>Manage application-level backups, including PostgreSQL backups and backup automation.</li><li>Monitor backup completion and investigate failures.</li><li>Verify recoverability through planned restore drills.</li><li>Document recovery procedures and dependencies.</li><li>Coordinate with client IT on system-level backups and snapshots where those are client-owned.</li><li>Identify gaps between application backups and system-level recovery arrangements.<br><br></li></ul><div>5. Release Support and Deployment Operations<br><br></div><ul><li>Support frequent application releases in collaboration with developers.</li><li>Build and maintain GitHub Actions workflows and deployment automation.</li><li>Maintain staging-to-production release promotion processes.</li><li>Implement deployment health checks, smoke tests, and rollback procedures.</li><li>Maintain Docker images, Compose services, runtime configuration, and environment consistency.</li><li>Own infrastructure and runtime upgrades, validating changes in staging before production deployment.</li><li>Coordinate changes that affect application compatibility with developers, who own application code, code-library upgrades, and functional testing.<br><br></li></ul><div>6. Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management<br><br></div><ul><li>Maintain AWS infrastructure through Terraform, including EC2, security groups, IAM, S3, and networking configuration.</li><li>Follow safe Terraform practices for planning, review, state management, and applying changes.</li><li>Maintain and extend an established Ansible repository.</li><li>Keep playbooks idempotent, readable, and aware of environment differences.</li><li>Use automation to make infrastructure changes repeatable and auditable.<br><br></li></ul><div>7. Limited Windows Infrastructure Support<br><br></div><ul><li>Provide basic Windows administration and troubleshooting for endpoints supporting Microsoft Access applications.</li><li>Coordinate endpoint and access issues with client IT.</li><li>Support the infrastructure on which legacy PowerShell ETL scripts run, including permissions, scheduled tasks, connectivity, and execution environments.</li><li>Collaborate with Guidelight developers, who own the PowerShell scripts and application logic.<br><br></li></ul><div><strong>Required Skills and Qualifications<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Strong production experience administering <strong>Ubuntu Linux</strong>.</li><li>Production experience managing <strong>AWS EC2</strong> infrastructure.</li><li>Ability to design and maintain highly available environments and explain failure modes and recovery approaches.</li><li>Strong operational fundamentals: patching, troubleshooting, log analysis, incident investigation, and safe change management.</li><li>Production <strong>Docker</strong> operations experience.</li><li>Practical <strong>Terraform on AWS</strong> experience.</li><li><strong>Ansible</strong> proficiency for system configuration and deployment automation.</li><li>Experience building or maintaining CI/CD workflows using <strong>GitHub Actions</strong> or similar tooling.</li><li><strong>PostgreSQL operations</strong> experience, including backups, restores, upgrade planning, and basic performance troubleshooting.</li><li>Monitoring experience with <strong>CloudWatch, Telegraf/InfluxDB/Grafana, or comparable tools</strong>.</li><li><strong>One to two years of basic Windows administration or helpdesk experience</strong>.</li><li>Sound security practices, including least privilege, secret handling, access management, and environment separation.</li><li>Strong written communication and the ability to maintain clear tickets, change records, and runbooks.</li><li>Ability to collaborate with technical and nontechnical stakeholders and work independently on agreed priorities.<br><br></li></ul><div><strong><br>Nice to Have<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Experience with OpenTelemetry.</li><li>Experience operating data and analytics platforms such as Dagster, Superset, and Python API services.</li><li>Familiarity with Microsoft Access environments and troubleshooting PowerShell execution.</li><li>Experience improving release processes, deployment pipelines, and automated validation gates.</li><li>CompTIA Network+, Linux+, or comparable credentials.<br><br></li></ul><div><strong><br>What Success Looks Like</strong></div><div><br>During the initial engagement, you will develop a working understanding of the environments, document significant operational gaps, and agree on a prioritized improvement backlog with Guidelight leadership.<br><br></div><div>Over time:<br><br></div><ul><li>Managed systems follow documented maintenance and patching routines.</li><li>Critical services have actionable monitoring and an identified response owner.</li><li>Backup failures are detected, and agreed restore drills are completed and documented.</li><li>Releases use appropriate validation and rollback procedures.</li><li>Infrastructure changes are reviewed, repeatable, and auditable.</li><li>Runbooks enable other team members to respond effectively.</li><li>Infrastructure recommendations balance reliability, security, cost, and the available maintenance budget.</li><li>Assigned work is completed with clear communication about progress, blockers, and decisions needed.<br><br></li></ul><div><strong><br>About Guidelight<br></strong><br></div><div>At Guidelight Technology Solutions, we value humility, integrity, and competence. We support nonprofits and businesses that depend on reliable systems and thoughtful technical stewardship.</div><div><br>Our work requires discretion, respect for client confidentiality, and a high level of professional ethics. We value people who communicate clearly, exercise sound judgment, and take responsibility for their work.<br><br></div><div><br></div>

Contract Systems Engineer and Administrator

<h3>Job Description</h3><p>We are seeking a full-time and volunteer professional DevOps Engineers.</p><p>SIL International is a faith-based nonprofit organization committed to serving translation teams worldwide. If you believe, as we do, that all languages are of value, form an integral part of people’s identity, and have the potential to serve them in a rapidly changing world, then you can be part of a software team serving translation teams worldwide.</p><p>Summary: A DevOps Engineer supports the infrastructure used to create the software, fonts, and training tools used to serve minority language communities.</p><h3>Major Responsibilities:</h3><ul><li><strong>Manage multi-cloud environment</strong></li><li><strong>Kubernetes administration</strong></li><li><strong>Manage public and private multi-cloud environment</strong></li><li><strong>Monitor and respond to system health demands</strong></li><li><strong>Implement a continuous improvement process to advance existing infrastructure</strong></li><li><strong>Disaster recovery planning and testing</strong></li><li><strong>Orchestrate public and private cloud resources</strong></li></ul><h3>Minor Responsibilities:</h3><ul><li><strong>Assist development teams with troubleshooting</strong></li><li><strong>Training</strong></li></ul><h3>Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:</h3><ul><li><strong>Kubernetes experience preferred</strong></li><li><strong>Demonstrated skills in management of virtual servers and containers</strong></li><li><strong>Linux and Windows Administration and scripting</strong></li><li><strong>Strong understanding of cloud networking and security principals</strong></li><li><strong>Infrastructure as Code and automated provisioning. Experience in Ansible and Terraform preferred.</strong></li></ul><h3>Education and Experience:</h3><p><strong>Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent experience</strong></p><h3>Training and Orientation:</h3><p><strong>On-the-job training</strong></p><h3>Weekly Hours</h3><p>40</p>

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<h3>About the Role</h3><p>Gabb is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to help build, scale, and operate our infrastructure. This is a hands-on individual contributor role for someone who thrives on solving complex infrastructure problems and wants to make a direct technical impact without people-management responsibilities.</p><p>You will contribute to infrastructure reliability, CI/CD, observability, incident response, and cost management, working closely with the Lead DevOps Engineer and the broader engineering team while reporting to the Director of Platform and Infrastructure. This role is deeply hands-on and includes participating in on-call rotations and actively debugging production issues.</p><p>You’ll partner closely with engineering and product teams to support business needs, with a focus on execution, reliability, and continuous improvement.</p><h3>What You’ll Do</h3><p><strong>Infrastructure &amp; Reliability</strong></p><ul><li>Support infrastructure reliability and uptime across all environments, including development, staging, and production.</li><li>Design and implement scalable, resilient systems on AWS that support continued customer and device growth.</li><li>Help manage multi-regional or highly available infrastructure with clear SLAs, failover patterns, and capacity planning.</li><li>Identify and remediate security risks in infrastructure and deployment pipelines in partnership with engineering and security teams.</li></ul><p><strong>CI/CD &amp; Developer Platform</strong></p><ul><li>Build and maintain CI/CD systems and GitOps workflows that enable product teams to deploy with speed and confidence.</li><li>Improve developer tooling, deployment pipelines, and environment management to reduce operational burden on product engineering teams.</li><li>Manage Kubernetes and containerized workloads and apply infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform, Helm, and related tooling.</li></ul><p><strong>Observability &amp; Incident Response</strong></p><ul><li>Build and enhance observability practices, including monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting, that provide clear visibility into system health, performance, and risk.</li><li>Participate in on-call rotations and incident response, including root cause analysis and post-incident improvement processes.</li><li>Contribute to reporting and dashboards on infrastructure health, performance trends, and cost.</li></ul><p><strong>Systems, Processes &amp; Operational Maturity</strong></p><ul><li>Contribute to the infrastructure and platform roadmap aligned with company growth and product needs.</li><li>Build and maintain operational processes, runbooks, and documentation that increase reliability, consistency, and knowledge transfer across the team.</li><li>Support infrastructure cost management by building visibility into cloud spend, identifying waste, and aligning resource usage with business goals.</li><li>Support new product initiatives with scalable platform solutions, ensuring DevOps considerations are embedded early in architecture decisions.</li></ul><p><strong>Collaboration &amp; Mentorship</strong></p><ul><li>Mentor and provide technical guidance to other engineers on infrastructure and DevOps best practices.</li><li>Collaborate with engineering, product, and the Lead DevOps Engineer to translate business needs into technical initiatives and priorities.</li></ul><h3>What We’re Looking For</h3><p><strong>Experience &amp; Skills</strong></p><ul><li>4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering.</li><li>Demonstrated track record of building or significantly maturing DevOps practices, not just operating within an established environment.</li><li>Experience operating and scaling systems to millions of users or connected devices.</li><li>Strong experience with AWS and cloud-based infrastructure at production scale.</li><li>Experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads in production environments.</li><li>Proficiency in infrastructure as code using Terraform and Helm, as well as CI/CD pipeline design; experience with GitOps workflows is preferred.</li><li>Strong command of observability practices, including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting systems.</li><li>Experience supporting multi-regional or highly available production systems with defined SLAs.</li><li>Experience with infrastructure cost optimization, including actively managing cloud spend rather than only monitoring it.</li></ul><h3>Who You Are</h3><ul><li>A builder—you assess what exists, identify what’s working and what isn’t, and construct the systems and processes needed to operate at the next level.</li><li>A strong communicator who can translate infrastructure risk and technical trade-offs into clear language for technical and non-technical stakeholders alike.</li><li>Disciplined about process without being rigid—you build frameworks that create consistency while leaving room for the team to move fast.</li><li>Comfortable with ambiguity and ownership in a fast-moving environment where the infrastructure roadmap will evolve as the business grows.</li><li>Genuinely interested in Gabb’s mission and the responsibility that comes with building infrastructure for a product that families depend on.</li></ul><h3>Why You’ll Love It Here</h3><ul><li>🌎 Mission-driven company protecting kids and making a real difference for families</li><li>💰 Competitive compensation commensurate with experience</li><li>🏥 Generous insurance coverage, with up to 100% of premiums covered based on tenure</li><li>🫶 401(k) with employer match</li><li>⚖️ Unlimited PTO and flexible scheduling where the role allows</li><li>🚀 Stock options</li><li>🐶 Pet insurance</li><li>😎 An energetic, collaborative culture with great coworkers</li></ul>

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