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title: 'Senior Systems Administrator at Bluestaq US External'
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# Senior Systems Administrator at Bluestaq US External

- **Company:** Bluestaq US External
- **Location:** Colorado Springs, CO
- **Compensation:** $90k–$120k
- **Posted:** 2026-06-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-17
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/bluestaq/jobs/4274308009

## Job description

## Why This Role Matters

At Bluestaq, mission success depends on systems that are secure, reliable, and always ready. As a Senior Systems Administrator, you'll keep critical infrastructure running — maintaining, monitoring, and troubleshooting the applications and systems our teams and customers depend on around the clock. Your work directly strengthens the technical backbone behind Bluestaq's most important missions.

What You'll Own:

- Maintain and support the integrity of system networks through technical support and configuration management
- Perform daily maintenance, monitoring, and troubleshooting of applications, networking problems, and systems issues across both cloud-hosted and on-premises platforms
- Serve as a primary escalation point (Tier 2/3) for infrastructure incidents, outages, and performance degradation
- Administer Active Directory including GPO, role-based access controls, and user/group policy management
- Support cloud identity and access management (IAM) tools and practices
- Build and maintain automation workflows using Ansible, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes to reduce manual effort and improve reliability
- Perform software and system installations, upgrades, routine automation, and cybersecurity risk mitigation tasks
- Provide responsive, solutions-oriented support to system users, ensuring reliable access to tools and systems
- Maintain accurate, thorough documentation in Confluence — system configurations, change records, runbooks, and SOPs
- Track and manage work through Jira, communicating scope and status effectively to the team and stakeholders
- Coordinate with security and compliance teams to ensure systems meet DoD standards and hardening requirements
- Support 24/7 operations including shift work and on-call rotations as mission requires
- Contribute to team knowledge sharing and support the mentorship of junior administrators (L1/L2)
- Proactively identify issues, anticipate roadblocks, and escalate appropriately when needed
- Take responsibility for personal development and demonstrate a growth mindset
- You use modern AI tools with judgment: integrating them into workflows where they're impactful, reviewing their outputs, and handling proprietary or sensitive data responsibly

What You Bring:

## What You Bring

Must-Have:

- Willing to support 24/7 operations and shift work.
- Active DoD Secret or Top Secret security clearance
- Proficient understanding of Linux systems administration in production environments
- Hands-on Active Directory administration experience
- Experience with cloud identity and access management (IAM) tools
- Working knowledge of system vulnerabilities and security issues
- Solid networking fundamentals — DNS, DHCP, VLANs, firewalls, and routing
- Working experience with automation and infrastructure-as-code tools (Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, or Packer)
- Experience with cloud computing concepts and the AWS component stack
- Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills — curious and investigative approach to problem-solving
- Hands-on experience with Atlassian tools — Confluence and Jira
- Experience with help desk/ITSM systems and ticketing workflows
- Strong collaboration skills — comfortable working across multiple teams and sharing knowledge
- Strong written and verbal communication skills — comfortable working directly with customers, end users, and engineering teams
- Active CompTIA Security+ certification (DoD Directive 8140/8570.01-M)
- Ownership mindset — you follow through, document your work, and find the right balance between persevering and asking for help

Bonus:

- CISSP or CEH certification
- Advanced Ansible, Terraform, or Kubernetes usage in classified or production environments
- Linux certifications (RHCSA, RHCE, LPIC, or equivalent)
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines or DevSecOps practices

Required Education: 2+ years of systems administration/information technology experience with a Bachelor's degree OR an Associate degree with 2 additional years of experience beyond the minimum required OR a High School Diploma/GED with 4 additional years of experience beyond the minimum required may be substituted in lieu of a degree. Salary Range (CO) $90,000—$120,000 USD

Clearance Requirement: This position may require an active TS/SCI Clearance. Current clearance holders are strongly encouraged to apply. If you don't currently hold one, Bluestaq will sponsor eligible candidates through the clearance process based on program needs.

## About Bluestaq

At Bluestaq, we build secure data platforms that matter for space missions, national defense, healthcare systems, and commercial innovation. Founded in 2018, we've become a leader in enterprise software and secure data management by staying focused on what counts: modern architecture, operational excellence, and mission impact.

We're engineers, problem-solvers, and builders who take the mission seriously, but not ourselves. We automate the repeatable, question the status quo, and design systems that are as reliable as they are scalable. Whether we're supporting space, defense systems, or healthcare advancements, we build with the same principles: cloud-native solutions, security by design, and relentless simplicity.

Relocation: Relocation assistance may be available for this role and is evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Date the Position Closes: Applications will be accepted for 60 days beyond the posting date, or until the position is filled, whichever comes first.

Bluestaq is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees on the basis age 40 and over, color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by state or local law.

Bluestaq will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities and employees whose work requirements interfere with a religious belief unless doing so would result in an undue hardship to Bluestaq or a direct threat. Employees needing such accommodation are instructed to contact Human Resources immediately at contact.us@bluestaq.com.

## About Bluestaq US External

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Bluestaq builds secure, scalable data management platforms that enable organizations to ingest, store, manage, discover, and share data across on-premises, cloud, and edge environments.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped/self-funded, no disclosed funding rounds)
- **Headquarters**: Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Seth Harvey (CEO, per Inc. profile)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise data management and integration software
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily U.S. military, intelligence agencies, healthcare, public sector, and large corporations
- **Mission**: Build enterprise software platforms to connect, integrate, catalog, govern, and discover data for data-driven communities

## Products & Services
- **EdgePlatform**: Portable, ruggedized data mobility solution for austere environments with minimal infrastructure
- **Storefront**: Data catalog and marketplace for discovering, consuming, and subscribing to data feeds with live API documentation
- **Secure Content Store**: Manages and exploits unstructured data (documents, video, audio, imagery) with search and correlation tools
- **HybridSolution**: On-premise hybrid cloud deployment (single or multi-node) to minimize data latency
- **EnterprisePlatform**: Cloud-based platform deployable across multiple availability zones with real-time synchronization
- **PEPStaq API Gateway**: Lightweight policy enforcement point / API gateway for securing web-based enterprise systems
- **Ecommerce Marketplace**: Marketplace for acquiring commercial data from global vendors for government, commercial, and academic consumers

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: 232% 3-year growth (Inc. 2025); 143 total employees (Built In)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Growth Signals**: Recognized as an Inc. Best Workplace (2026); multiple Inc. 5000 rankings (No. 630 in 2023, No. 1,327 in 2024, No. 1,663 in 2025, No. 1,871 in 2022); named one of Colorado’s fastest-growing private companies

## Competitive Advantages
- Deep specialization in secure data ecosystems for high-stakes, mission-critical sectors (defense, intelligence, healthcare)
- Proprietary edge computing and hybrid cloud capabilities for disconnected or austere environments
- Integrated AI/ML and NLP capabilities for real-time data exploitation
- Strong emphasis on data governance, policy enforcement, and interoperability across disparate systems

## Strategic Focus
- Continuing to expand data unification capabilities across on-prem, cloud, and edge
- Deepening AI/ML and natural language processing integration for unstructured data
- Growing presence in healthcare and commercial sectors while maintaining defense/intelligence core
- Scaling the team and maintaining a small-company culture as headcount grows

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values-driven (trust, ownership, curiosity, talent, teamwork, mentorship); described as purpose-driven with a small-company feel
- **Work Policy**: Hybrid – typically 3–4 days in office, 1–2 days remote depending on role; onsite in Colorado Springs
- **Benefits**: 100% employer-paid PPO health insurance for employees and dependents; profit share; “Take-What-You-Need” time off; mental health benefits; paid internship program
- **Tech Stack**: Modern – AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, React, React Native, Node.js, Python, Angular, Kafka, Neo4j, TensorFlow, Spring, GitHub, and more
- **Impact**: Work directly supports national security, healthcare operations, and critical infrastructure – described as “measurable global impact”

## Sources
1. [bluestaq.com](https://www.bluestaq.com/)
2. [bluestaq.com/careers](https://www.bluestaq.com/careers)
3. [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/bluestaq)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/bluestaq)
5. [inc.com](https://www.inc.com/profile/bluestaq)

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