Bluestaq starts with our people.

Are you ready for the best job you've ever had? At Bluestaq, we've rapidly built a culture around community, constant innovation, and customer commitment.  Bluestaq is dedicated to cultivating a growth environment where our team feels valued, works with a sense of mission, is personally rewarded, and professionally challenged.

Bluestaq is an emerging technology company, founded in 2018 to streamline global operations using cutting-edge enterprise software and mission analytics. Bluestaq develops and transforms its enterprise systems and secures disparate data to solve our customers' most critical challenges. Today, Bluestaq primarily provides the U.S. Department of Defense and the nation's intelligence community with advanced software systems. Our name, Bluestaq, originates from "blue" a military term for friendly forces and "staq" referring to a software stack.

Bluestaq was recently recognized by the Colorado Technology Association as the 2019 Emerging Tech Company of the Year, named Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce and EDC 2019 New Company of the Year, recognized as a 2019 Best Workplaces in Colorado Springs by the Colorado Springs Gazette, and acknowledged on three 2020 Built In Colorado’s Best Places to Work Lists:

• #21 Best Places to Work in Colorado,
• #5 Best Small Companies to Work for in Colorado,
• #4 Best Paying Companies in Colorado.

Looking for amazing quality of life? In 2019, Colorado Springs scored a “Perfect 10” for “desirability” by US News & World Report.

Why join Bluestaq in Colorado Springs?

• Cost of living - below the national average
• Lifestyle Amenities – coffee shops, craft breweries, boutiques, locally-owned restaurants
• Nature – more than 100 parks and ample outdoor sporting opportunities
• Weather – Colorado Springs boasts over 300 days of sunshine a year
• Laidback atmosphere – an accessible alternative to the faced-paced Denver lifestyle

Bluestaq is located in the heart of Downtown Colorado Springs. Our street level, headquarters location aligns with the Bluestaq brand identity and company culture. Bluestaq believes the Downtown location embodies an innovative, dynamic, industrious, and collaborative brand identity. The flexibility of working in a dynamic community with access to food, entertainment, retail, and other businesses, and increasing cultural amenities allows our team to handle personal errands, exercise and unwind within walking and biking distance of our headquarters.

Who we’re looking for…

Bluestaq is looking for a self-starting, ambitious individual who is not afraid to question assumptions or learn a new skill/technology on the job to solve a problem. As a Bluestaq Systems Administrator, you will take primary responsibility for maintaining and supporting the integrity of our system networks providing technical support and configuration management.  The ideal Systems Administrator on the Bluestaq team is a customer-service driven, professional person who can manage day-to-day operations and provide tech support to system end-users. You’ll be a member of a team performing daily maintenance, monitoring, troubleshooting applications, networking problems, and systems issues on both cloud-hosted and on-premise platforms to ensure our enterprise software is functioning smoothly. Bluestaq Systems Administrators are charged with software and computer installations and upgrades, routine automation, cybersecurity risk mitigation, and technical support. And we’re focused on doing - we keep meetings to a minimum.   Systems Administrators may work at client sites.

  Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in system administration
• Extensive experience in active directory
• Strong networking knowledge
• Familiar with help desk service systems and processes.
• Familiarity with cloud-based concepts and the AWS component stack.
• Experience using cloud identity and access management tools
• Advanced knowledge of system vulnerabilities and security issues
• High-level troubleshooting and debugging skills, with a passion for problem solving and investigation

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• CISSP certification nice to have (CISSP-ISSAP or CISSP-ISSEP also nice to have)

This position requires the ability to obtain a TS/SCI Clearance. To be eligible for a clearance, US Citizenship is required, and an employee must agree to participate in a background screen and credit check, provide their Social Security number and allow the investigating government entity to access their tax records. If the clearance process requires a polygraph or drug test, an employee must agree to participate in these required steps.

Bluestaq is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We also take affirmative action to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all applicants regardless of age, gender, race and religion, disabilities, or protected veteran status.