<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

<div><strong>About the Work</strong></div><div>As a Platform Engineer, you'll help maintain and grow the infrastructure that powers Planning Center's applications and services. You'll start with clear, well-defined projects and close support and take on more ownership as you grow, eventually managing key pieces of our cloud infrastructure. We're looking for someone reliable and collaborative, who's excited to grow their craft and their understanding of how Planning Center builds and runs platform services.</div><div><br><strong>Responsibilities</strong></div><ul><li>Handle infrastructure work across a growing scope — from hand-picked, low-urgency familiarization tasks (AWS services, Datadog monitoring, deployments, low-impact automation) toward independently managing significant components such as container orchestration, database performance tuning, and cloud-service optimization</li><li>Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues with autonomy, seeking guidance on necessary changes and, in time, on architecture decisions</li><li>Implement and troubleshoot scalable, resilient cloud architectures using AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, and SNS</li><li>Engage in infrastructure-as-code projects and play an active role in CI/CD pipeline management, ensuring smooth, efficient deployments</li><li>Analyze and optimize cost and performance, balancing performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency</li><li>Grow in alignment with company infrastructure patterns and best practices</li><li>Engage in and help refine the team's collaborative processes</li><li>Mentor less-experienced engineers and facilitate learning, sharing knowledge through tech talks and documentation</li><li>Proactively identify and implement infrastructure improvements, such as automating manual processes or enhancing security</li><li>Consistently ask questions and provide feedback to teammates that demonstrate an effort to understand their work — growing toward feedback that is high-quality and actionable</li><li>Actively seek feedback and act on it constructively, continuously enhancing their technical and collaborative skills</li><li>Participate in on-call rotation, starting as a secondary observer and growing into a full participant</li><li>Proactively communicate your own needs and the needs of the work you're responsible for</li></ul><div><br><strong>What You Bring</strong></div><ul><li>5+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure on AWS</li><li>Proven ability to lead infrastructure projects from design through rollout and launch</li><li>Expertise in distributed systems, deployment orchestration, and failure detection / handling</li><li>Hands-on experience with AWS Elastic Container Service, containers, and workload scheduling</li><li>Strong track record in reliability, incident response, and building maintainable, debuggable systems</li><li>Broad technical impact across systems through architecture, code review, mentorship, and team-level technical leadership</li></ul><div><br><strong>Nice to Have</strong></div><ul><li>Experience hosting and maintaining Ruby on Rails applications at scale</li><li>Experience with deployment safety systems such as anomaly detection, progressive delivery, and automated rollback</li><li>Familiarity with event-driven architectures for deployment observability and notifications</li><li>Experience managing Infrastructure-as-Code at scale, including cloud governance and IAM in AWS</li><li>Background building developer platforms and internal tools that improve developer experience</li><li>Experience with core AWS services such as Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, and others</li></ul><div><br><strong>Who We Look For</strong></div><div>The best fits for any role on the Planning Center team are people embodying our <strong>Core Values:</strong></div><ul><li><strong>Engage with Humility: </strong>We actively participate with openness and receptiveness. We are ready to listen, learn, and speak thoughtfully and kindly— regardless of role or experience.</li><li><strong>Invest in our team: </strong>We give our time and energy to the success of those around us—collaborating well, making space for diverse perspectives, and sharing knowledge freely.</li><li><strong>Do Our Best Work:</strong> We strive for excellence and continuously look for ways to improve both our individual contributions and our team’s output.</li><li><strong>Focus on Customer Impact:</strong> We advocate for our customers in our decision-making and ensure our work creates meaningful, positive value for them.</li><li><strong>Think Holistically, Work Iteratively:</strong> We consider the bigger picture while making steady, practical progress— thinking big and working small.</li></ul><div><br>We believe the strongest teams are built from diverse backgrounds and experiences. We’re committed to cultivating that diversity and creating an inclusive, supportive environment where you can do your best work.&nbsp;</div><div><br><strong>Our Hiring Process</strong></div><div>We want this process to feel clear, respectful, and human. You’re getting to know us just as much as we’re getting to know you!</div><div><br>Applications will be accepted until <strong>August 11th, 2026 at 8:00am PT</strong>. We review applications on a rolling basis and may close the posting early once we’ve built a strong pool of candidates, so we encourage you to apply early!</div><div><br>Below is an outline of the steps in our hiring process.</div><ul><li><strong>Step One</strong>: Apply with your resume and complete the application questions so we can learn more about your background and experience. <em>Our application questions are a chance for us to get to know you, so feel free to answer them the way you might in a cover letter.&nbsp;</em></li><li><strong>Step Two</strong>: Phone screen with our Talent Acquisition team to get to know one another and discuss work and culture</li><li><strong>Step Three</strong>: Initial technical interview with two of our platform engineers, including a technical exercise and time to discuss your background</li><li><strong>Step Four</strong>: Final technical interview with a few team members, including a technical exercise and more in-depth discussion on your experience and interest in joining the team</li><li><strong>Step Five:</strong> Pending all goes well, we'll extend an offer</li></ul><div><br><strong>Compensation and Logistics&nbsp;</strong></div><ul><li>This is a US-based role; candidates must reside in and be authorized to work in the United States. We are not able to sponsor H-1B visas at this time.</li><li>Candidates must be willing to travel three times each year to connect with the rest of the team</li><li>The annual salary range for this position is $200,000 - $235,000.</li></ul><div><em>Note: If you've applied for this same role within the past 9 months, we kindly ask that you do not reapply at this time. We thoughtfully review each application, and while we may not move forward now, we encourage you to apply for future opportunities that align with your experience.</em></div><div><br><strong>Benefits</strong></div><div>We love our team. It's one of the core pillars that guides how we work, which is why we invest deeply in your well-being, growth, and balance. Here are some highlights (you can explore all our benefits <a href="https://www.planningcenter.com/careers">here</a>):</div><div><br><strong>Get paid:</strong></div><ul><li>401(k) with a 3% company contribution after 90 days</li><li>Charitable giving match up to $2,000/year</li><li>Up to $300 monthly coworking stipend</li><li>Allowance for continued education</li></ul><div><br><strong>Get out:</strong></div><ul><li><strong>Paid Fridays off, all year long!</strong></li><li>A month-long sabbatical every five years</li><li>A week off between Christmas and New Year's</li><li>A paid week each year to serve with a globally focused nonprofit</li><li>Two weeks of paid vacation (growing to three over time)</li></ul><div><br><strong>Be healthy:</strong></div><ul><li>95% medical and 100% dental premium coverage</li><li>$200/month toward physical fitness and mental health</li><li>Paid sick time</li></ul><h3><strong>About Planning Center</strong></h3><div>Planning Center exists to help churches build stronger, more connected communities.</div><div>Since 2006, over 80,000 churches have trusted our tools to care for their people—whether that’s communicating with their congregation, organizing important information, or coordinating the details that make ministry happen.</div><div><br>We’re an independent, profitable company with no outside investors. That means we get to focus on building products thoughtfully, caring for our team well, and making decisions for the long term.&nbsp;</div><div><br>Our team is fully remote, working together daily through tools like Slack, Asana, Linear, Notion, and Zoom. Three times a year, we gather in Carlsbad, CA to connect in person, strengthen relationships, and align on where we’re headed.</div>

Platform Engineer

<div><strong>As a Principal Engineer in AI Security, you will define and lead Thrivent’s strategy for defending against emerging external AI-powered threats. This role focuses on protecting the enterprise from adversarial AI capabilities, including automated vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and AI-driven attack campaigns. You will operate at the intersection of cyber defense, artificial intelligence, and enterprise architecture, translating rapidly evolving external threats into practical, scalable protections across the organization. This role requires deep technical expertise, strong systems thinking, and the ability to influence security strategy at the highest levels.<br></strong><br></div><h3>DUTIES &amp; RESPONSIBILITIES:</h3><div><br><strong>Designing Solutions</strong></div><ul><li>Apply expert-level knowledge of AI-driven threats, cyber defense, and enterprise security architecture to define and drive outcomes that protect the organization from emerging AI-powered attack vectors.</li><li>Create the enterprise strategy for defending against AI-enabled threats, including automated vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and adversarial AI techniques.</li><li>Establish architecture for detection, prevention, and response capabilities specific to generative AI threat patterns.</li><li>Define and implement security patterns and guardrails to enable safe and secure enterprise consumption of AI technologies.</li><li>Drive integration of AI threat detection and controls into existing cyber defense tooling and platforms.</li><li>Build threat models focused on generative AI attack patterns and emerging adversarial techniques.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Implementing Solutions</strong></div><ul><li>Use independent, critical thinking to translate evolving AI threat intelligence into scalable engineering controls and defensive capabilities.</li><li>Lead the development of detection and response mechanisms for AI-driven attacks across enterprise environments.</li><li>Design and implement telemetry strategies to identify anomalous behavior indicative of AI-enabled threats.</li><li>Partner with Cyber Defense teams to operationalize detections, response playbooks, and automation for AI-related incidents.</li><li>Prototype and evaluate defensive applications of AI to enhance detection, response, and security operations.</li><li>Develop architecturally significant components that advance the organization’s ability to defend against AI-driven adversaries.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Learning and Applying New Techniques</strong></div><ul><li>Lead research initiatives focused on emerging AI threat capabilities, adversarial AI techniques, and evolving attack methodologies.</li><li>Maintain deep expertise in industry frameworks such as OWASP LLM Top 10 and MITRE ATLAS.</li><li>Continuously evaluate and introduce modern security technologies and approaches to address AI-era risks.</li><li>Drive adoption of innovative defensive techniques across the organization to stay ahead of threat evolution.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Collaborating Within the Team</strong></div><ul><li>Provide deep technical expertise in AI security to solve complex, high-impact problems and remove critical technical roadblocks.</li><li>Partner with product owners and engineering teams to incorporate AI security requirements into technical designs and user stories.</li><li>Act as a technical leader in system design across teams, ensuring AI security considerations are embedded into broader architecture decisions.</li><li>Mentor engineers and elevate AI security capabilities within teams.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Collaborating Across Teams</strong></div><ul><li>Partner closely with Cyber Defense, IAM, and Application Security teams to integrate AI threat protections across the security ecosystem.</li><li>Promote adherence to enterprise security standards while extending them to address AI-specific risks.</li><li>Broker design and implementation of AI security controls across product teams to support strategic priorities.</li><li>Drive alignment across teams on detection engineering, telemetry, and response strategies for AI threats.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Collaborating Across the Organization</strong></div><ul><li>Influence senior leadership on AI risk posture, threat landscape evolution, and required investments in defensive capabilities.</li><li>Provide enterprise-wide guidance on AI security architecture, ensuring consistent and scalable protection strategies.</li><li>Represent the organization externally on AI security topics when appropriate (industry forums, partnerships, etc.).</li><li>Translate complex AI security risks into actionable insights for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Setting Product/Platform Technology Strategy</strong></div><ul><li>Define enterprise-level capabilities required to defend against AI-powered threats.</li><li>Shape the strategic direction for AI security across cyber defense, detection engineering, and secure AI adoption.</li><li>Provide subject matter expertise to guide platform and security investments related to AI risk mitigation.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Defining Engineering Standards/Patterns</strong></div><ul><li>Establish and promote engineering standards for AI security, including secure AI usage patterns and detection frameworks.</li><li>Collaborate across teams to ensure consistent application of AI security controls and design patterns.</li><li>Drive adoption of best practices for integrating AI threat protections into engineering workflows and platforms.</li></ul><div><br><strong>DevOps</strong></div><ul><li>Provide technical leadership in identifying and responding to AI-driven security incidents and emerging threats.</li><li>Introduce resilient and scalable technologies to improve detection and response capabilities for evolving attack patterns.</li><li>Evaluate and implement enhancements to CI/CD and operational pipelines to incorporate AI security controls.</li><li>Influence cross-functional teams to proactively address risks associated with AI-enabled development and deployment.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Selecting and Managing Technology Vendors</strong></div><ul><li>Provide technical expertise in evaluating AI security tools, detection platforms, and emerging defensive technologies.</li><li>Assess how vendor solutions align with enterprise strategy for defending against AI-driven threats.</li><li>Contribute to selection criteria for platforms that enhance AI security posture and detection capabilities.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Coaching Engineers</strong></div><ul><li>Mentor engineers in AI security concepts, threat modeling, and detection engineering.</li><li>Provide guidance on best practices for securing AI-enabled systems and defending against adversarial AI techniques.</li><li>Deliver training, workshops, and knowledge-sharing sessions to build AI security expertise across the organization.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Recruiting and Building Talent</strong></div><ul><li>Engage in the broader AI and security community to strengthen organizational expertise and visibility in AI security.</li><li>Support recruitment efforts to hire engineers with specialized skills in AI security and advanced cyber defense.</li><li>Model Thrivent’s leadership competencies: Model the Way, Rally the Team, and Deliver Outcomes.</li><li>Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and strong security practices aligned to evolving AI risks.</li></ul><div><br><strong>QUALIFICATIONS &amp; SKILLS:</strong></div><h3>Required:</h3><ul><li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related technical field, or equivalent work experience</li><li>10+ years of experience in security engineering or related field</li><li>Proven experience defining and executing enterprise security strategy</li><li>Deep knowledge of modern threats, attack techniques, and detection engineering</li><li>Experience with threat modeling, incident response, and security operations</li><li>Demonstrated ability to influence both technical and executive stakeholders</li></ul><h3>Preferred:</h3><ul><li>Experience working with AI/ML systems and security implications</li><li>Knowledge of adversarial AI techniques and AI threat modeling</li><li>Experience with XDR, SIEM, and detection engineering practices</li><li>Familiarity with AI security frameworks (e.g., OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS)</li><li>Financial services industry experience</li></ul><div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Pay Transparency</strong></div><div>Thrivent’s long-term growth depends on attracting, rewarding, and retaining people who are committed to helping others thrive with purpose. We accomplish this by offering a wide variety of market competitive compensation programs to attract, reward, and retain top talent.&nbsp; The applicable salary or hourly wage range for this full-time role is $161,436.00 - $218,415.00 per year, which factors in various geographic regions.&nbsp; The base pay actually offered will be determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to, location, relevant experience, skills, and knowledge, business needs, market demand, and other factors Thrivent deems important.</div><div><br></div><div>Thrivent is unique in our commitment to helping people to be wise with money and live balanced and generous lives.&nbsp; That extends to our benefits.</div><div><br></div><div>The following benefits may be offered:&nbsp; various bonuses (including, for example, annual or long-term incentives); medical, dental, and vision insurance; health savings account; flexible spending account; 401k; pension; life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance; disability insurance; supplemental protection insurance; 20 days of Paid Time Off each year; Sick and Safe Time; 10 paid company holidays; Volunteer Time Off; paid parental leave; EAP; well-being benefits, and other employee benefits.&nbsp; Eligibility for receipt of these benefits is subject to the applicable plan/policy documents.&nbsp; Thrivent’s plans/policies are subject to change at any time at Thrivent’s discretion.</div>

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