<div>If you love Jesus, coffee, and well-crafted news, you might just be our next teammate. Our mission is to be a trustworthy news resource that points people toward eternal hope, and we need an AI-forward, data-loving Full-Stack Developer to help make it happen.<br><br></div><div><strong>About The Pour Over</strong><br><br></div><div>TPO grew to 500,000 subscribers with a dental student leading the growth and marketing efforts. Our founder launched TPO while working full-time for Dish Network. Our Managing Editor? Environmental Studies degree. Moral of the story: we care more about initiative and results than perfect résumés.<br><br></div><div><strong>Our core values</strong></div><ul><li><strong>Excellence.</strong> If we do it, we do it excellently, as for the Lord. (Colossians 3:23–24)</li><li><strong>Faith.</strong> We seek to glorify Jesus, the King. (Matthew 22:37–40)</li><li><strong>Family.</strong> We love and invest in families. (Mark 10:13–16, Ephesians 5:33)</li><li><strong>Golden Rule.</strong> We treat others how we want to be treated. (Matthew 7:12)</li><li><strong>Humility.</strong> We disagree well and are open to correction. (Philippians 2:3–4)</li></ul><div><strong>About the job</strong><br><br></div><div>Are you the type of person who builds Claude dashboards for your local Survivor club? Built an app to coordinate groceries with your spouse? In this job, you will:<br><br></div><ul><li><strong>Partner with Growth.</strong> You'll work most closely with our Growth team to expand the mission of TPO.</li><li><strong>Build our CDP.</strong> Your first priority will be to build and maintain a new customer data platform.</li><li><strong>Guard the gates.</strong> Protect us from those no-do-gooder cyber criminals.</li><li><strong>Own the product.</strong> Think like a Product Owner, not just a Developer.</li></ul><div><strong>Our stack</strong></div><ul><li>AWS</li><li>Cloudflare</li><li>beehiiv</li><li>GA4</li><li>Claude Code</li></ul><div>Heads up: we build AI-forward, so you'll live in Claude Code (or similar) daily.<br><br></div><div><strong>What we're looking for</strong></div><ul><li>3+ years of experience, with a preference for full-stack or back-end development expertise</li><li>DevOps experience</li><li>AI workflow integration, with an emphasis on security</li><li>Passion for TPO's mission</li><li>Proximity to Iowa City, Iowa (well, technically Tiffin…)</li></ul><div><strong>Compensation &amp; benefits</strong></div><ul><li>$77,000 to $133,000 compensation, depending on experience</li><li>401(k) with match</li><li>Unlimited PTO</li><li>Flexible, hybrid working environment (3+ days a week in the office)</li><li>Office with gym, random team lunches, quality coffee, and lots of LMNT</li><li>Invites to quarterly Summer Paloozas, Fall Fam Jams, Winter Bonanzas, and Spring Flings (which may or may not be aggressively-named team retreats)</li><li>For full-time employees: medical, dental, vision, and long-term disability insurance, plus a Dependent Care FSA</li></ul><div><strong>Hiring process</strong></div><ul><li><strong>Now to October 19, 2026.</strong> Accepting applications</li><li><strong>October 20–26, 2026.</strong> Interviews for selected candidates (one will be a live assessment)</li><li><strong>End of day, October 28, 2026.</strong> Final decision &amp; offer made</li><li><strong>November 16, 2026.</strong> Target start date</li></ul>

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<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

<p>The Broadcast Engineer is responsible for the integration, operation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of broadcast, media, and production technology systems across studios, venues, and mobile units.</p><p>This role serves as the operational backbone of technical production, ensuring the reliability and performance of mission-critical systems during live and recorded productions. Engineers collaborate closely with production teams and senior engineering leadership to execute high-quality broadcasts, support system enhancements, and maintain alignment with industry standards and organizational goals.</p><p>The position is structured across multiple tiers, enabling progressive growth in technical depth, leadership responsibility, and system ownership. As engineers advance, they increasingly contribute to system design validation, infrastructure strategy execution, and organizational capability development alongside senior and Chief Engineering roles.</p><p>The engineer also mentors apprentices, student workers, and staff, supporting skill development and reinforcing organizational standards. This role requires strong collaboration, adaptability under pressure, and a commitment to Liberty University’s mission and professional values.</p><h3>Essential Functions and Responsibilities</h3><ul><li>Operate, troubleshoot, and maintain broadcast audio, video, and control systems in studio and field environments.</li><li>Support production crews by ensuring systems are functional, stable, and properly configured.</li><li>Assist with the installation, configuration, and maintenance of equipment across facilities and mobile units.</li><li>Perform routine preventive maintenance and basic system validation.</li><li>Support signal flow verification and assist in resolving common production issues.</li><li>Serve as Engineer in Charge (EIC) for assigned lower-risk productions under guidance.</li><li>Contribute to accurate documentation and adherence to operational standards.</li><li>Demonstrate strong situational awareness and the ability to work in high-pressure, time-sensitive environments.</li><li>Work flexible hours, including frequent nights and weekends.</li><li>Perform other duties as assigned.</li><li>Strictly adhere to Liberty University policies and represent the University in an exemplary manner.</li><li>Work effectively as a team member, embracing and fostering LU’s Christian model and Mission—Training Champions for Christ.</li></ul><h3>Supervisory Responsibilities</h3><p>Provides day-to-day guidance to student workers, crew, and assigned staff to support production readiness and safe, efficient operations.</p><p><strong>Tier 1</strong></p><ul><li>Provide basic guidance and support to student workers and crew under the direction of senior engineering staff.</li><li>Reinforce safe work practices, proper equipment handling, and standard operating procedures.</li><li>Escalate issues, risks, or resource constraints to the supervisor or Engineer in Charge.</li></ul><h3>Qualifications and Credentials</h3><p><strong>Education and Experience</strong></p><ul><li>Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Technology, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent experience.</li><li>Eligible to obtain LU-approved driver certification, including a valid driver's license, a minimum of five years of driving history, a clean driving record, and being at least 21 years of age.</li></ul><p><strong>Tier 1</strong></p><ul><li>2+ years of relevant experience in broadcast engineering or a related field.</li><li>Foundational experience in broadcast engineering, live production, or a related technical field.</li><li>Working knowledge of broadcast video, audio, and transmission systems.</li><li>Basic understanding of modern broadcast infrastructure, including IP-based workflows and networked media.</li><li>Familiarity with industry standards such as SMPTE, AES, SBE, IEEE, and ANSI.</li><li>Ability to interpret basic signal flow and system diagrams.</li><li>Demonstrated troubleshooting ability in time-sensitive environments.</li><li>Exposure to electrical systems, cabling, and low-voltage infrastructure.</li><li>Drafting and/or CAD experience preferred.</li><li>RF engineering fundamentals are a plus.</li><li>Basic familiarity with scripting, automation, or software tools used in broadcast environments is a plus.</li></ul><h3>Preferred Certifications and Professional Memberships</h3><p>The following certifications and professional memberships are desirable and support career progression across all tiers.</p><p><strong>Professional Memberships</strong></p><ul><li>Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE)</li><li>Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)</li><li>Audio Engineering Society (AES)</li></ul><p><strong>Broadcast Engineering Certifications (SBE)</strong></p><ul><li>CBT—Certified Broadcast Technologist</li><li>CBNT—Certified Broadcast Networking Technologist</li><li>CBNE—Certified Broadcast Networking Engineer</li><li>CEA—Certified Audio Engineer</li><li>CEV—Certified Video Engineer</li><li>CPBE—Certified Professional Broadcast Engineer</li></ul><p><strong>IT / Networking Certifications</strong></p><ul><li>CompTIA A+</li><li>CompTIA Network+</li><li>Cisco CCNA</li><li>Cisco CCNP</li><li>Microsoft role-based certifications, such as Azure Administrator, Azure Solutions Architect, or Microsoft 365 Enterprise Administrator</li></ul><p><strong>Cloud / Infrastructure Certifications</strong></p><ul><li>AWS Certified Solutions Architect—Associate</li><li>AWS Certified Solutions Architect—Professional</li></ul><h3>Abilities and Competencies Essential to the Function of the Job</h3><p><strong>Communication and Comprehension</strong></p><ul><li>Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, and convey clear, well-articulated information.</li><li>Ability to understand, speak, and write English in order to convey messages and correspond in an articulate and professional manner.</li><li>Possess public communication skills that allow for professional representation of Liberty University.</li><li>Strong organizational skills.</li><li>Ability to work equally well with detail and abstraction.</li><li>Ability to work independently and as a member of a team.</li><li>Ability to work with conflicting, delayed, or ambiguous information.</li></ul><p><strong>Problem Solving</strong></p><ul><li>Ability to reason intuitively, analyze information and events, and apply sound judgment to solve problems of both a routine and complex nature.</li></ul><p><strong>Physical and Sensory Abilities</strong></p><ul><li>Frequently required to travel to local and campus locations, as well as occasional out-of-town assignments.</li><li>Frequently required to sit for extended periods to perform desk work and for extensive periods during broadcasts while serving in functions essential to production.</li><li>Must possess strong auditory skills to accurately detect and interpret sounds such as pitch, tone, clarity, and spatial cues in order to identify technical audio problems, maintain creative content quality, and communicate clearly with team members in fast-paced broadcast settings.</li><li>Must possess strong visual acuity, including the ability to see fine details and accurately distinguish colors, in order to identify visual defects, maintain the creative and technical quality of video content, and perform precise tasks such as equipment installation, signal monitoring, and system calibration.</li><li>Often required to stand, walk, and climb stairs to move throughout buildings.</li><li>Must be able to handle materials, climb ladders, reach overhead, kneel, or stoop as required.</li><li>Regularly lift up to 75 pounds.</li></ul><h3>Working Conditions</h3><p><strong>Work Environment</strong></p><p>The work environment in which the essential functions of this position are performed changes frequently. Responsibilities often require work outside normal business hours and, in some situations, prolonged shifts. Some projects are completed in climate-controlled office settings, while others regularly take place outdoors and may require working in inclement weather. Working from home may be encouraged or required at times.</p><p><strong>Driving Requirements</strong></p><p>Use of a personal vehicle or Liberty University vehicle is required for travel in the performance of the essential functions of this position. Proof of a valid Virginia driver’s license, an acceptable DMV record, and liability insurance is required.</p>

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