About the role
<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>About Bluestaq Limited<br></strong>Bluestaq starts with our people. We are looking for teammates who THINK strategically, SERVE the mission and LEAD from wherever they stand. If you bring curiosity, ownership and a thirst for delivery, we would like to hear from you.</p>
<p>Every society runs on invisible systems; Bluestaq is that, for data. Bluestaq Ltd is the UK sovereign subsidiary of Bluestaq LLC (Colorado Springs, USA), and we build the secure data infrastructure that allied operations depend on: mission-critical solutions, flowing through thousands of global users, from ingest to publication in milliseconds, for customers spanning the NATO, Five Eyes and wider allied partners.</p>
<p>We are in our formative years in the UK, building on proven foundations in the USA and Australia. That means real opportunity, early: decisions at your level, and colleagues who know their craft and trust you to know yours.</p></div><p><strong><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 1">The Role</span></span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134245418":true,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559738":220,"335559739":90}"> <br></span><span data-contrast="none">You will own specific Linux systems supporting our NATO delivery on AWS, from configuration and monitoring to upgrades and incident response. You will be the specialist the team escalates to when a fault defeats first-line troubleshooting, and you will improve reliability as well as restore it.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":120,"335559740":276}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">You will mentor Systems Administrators in troubleshooting and operational hygiene. This is an individual contributor role with no direct reports, reporting to the Systems Administration Manager, with a clear technical path to Lead Systems Administrator.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":120,"335559740":276}"> <br><br></span></p>
<p><strong><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 1">What You Will Do</span></span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134245418":true,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559738":220,"335559739":90}"> </span></p>
<ul>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Own one or more systems or environments, covering configuration, monitoring and alerting, upgrades and incident response.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Debug difficult faults, including performance problems, resource exhaustion and integration failures, and take each incident from first symptom to a root cause and a remediation plan that holds.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Configure and tune services with secure, hardened defaults, and turn scan output and logs into lasting remediation.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Plan and execute upgrades and changes under change control, with realistic risk assessment and a tested rollback.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Act as the escalation point for Systems Administrator colleagues, mentor them, and document patterns others can reuse in runbooks and standard operating procedures.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Work across engineering, cyber and data teams on cross-functional problems.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Take part in UK operational coverage, including on-call rotation and structured handovers with the US team.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> <br><br></span></li>
</ul>
<p><strong><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 1">What You Bring</span></span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134245418":true,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559738":220,"335559739":90}"> </span></p>
<ul>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Strong hands-on Linux systems administration in complex, secure production environments, with depth in service behaviour, performance tuning and hardened configuration. Experience on Microsoft Azure, VMware vSphere or similar platforms is transferable.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Sound networking fundamentals, including DNS, DHCP, VLANs, firewalls and routing, and hands-on identity and access management across directory services and cloud platforms.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Working experience with automation and infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker or Packer, and with patching discipline and configuration compliance in an accredited environment.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Curiosity and incident discipline: you diagnose faults under pressure, find the root cause, and record what you found as well as what you fixed.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Experience owning systems, escalating only genuinely novel problems, and mentoring less experienced colleagues deliberately.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Clear written and verbal communication, including when the news is bad, and confident use of ITSM workflows and platforms such as Confluence and Jira.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Judgement with AI tools: applying them where they help, reviewing what they produce and handling sensitive data responsibly.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> <br><br></span></li>
</ul>
<p><strong><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 1">Essential Conditions</span></span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134245418":true,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559738":220,"335559739":90}"> </span></p>
<ul>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Right to work in the UK.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Ability to meet the security requirements above.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Willingness to work 10-hour shifts on a four-on, four-off rota, including weekends and bank holidays. Night shifts may follow as further systems come online and the service moves to 24/7.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Willingness and eligibility to travel to Bluestaq headquarters in the United States for onboarding, and occasionally to sites across the UK and Europe thereafter.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
</ul>
<p><strong><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 1">Nice to Have</span></span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134245418":true,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"33555
<p>Every society runs on invisible systems; Bluestaq is that, for data. Bluestaq Ltd is the UK sovereign subsidiary of Bluestaq LLC (Colorado Springs, USA), and we build the secure data infrastructure that allied operations depend on: mission-critical solutions, flowing through thousands of global users, from ingest to publication in milliseconds, for customers spanning the NATO, Five Eyes and wider allied partners.</p>
<p>We are in our formative years in the UK, building on proven foundations in the USA and Australia. That means real opportunity, early: decisions at your level, and colleagues who know their craft and trust you to know yours.</p></div><p><strong><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 1">The Role</span></span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134245418":true,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559738":220,"335559739":90}"> <br></span><span data-contrast="none">You will own specific Linux systems supporting our NATO delivery on AWS, from configuration and monitoring to upgrades and incident response. You will be the specialist the team escalates to when a fault defeats first-line troubleshooting, and you will improve reliability as well as restore it.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":120,"335559740":276}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">You will mentor Systems Administrators in troubleshooting and operational hygiene. This is an individual contributor role with no direct reports, reporting to the Systems Administration Manager, with a clear technical path to Lead Systems Administrator.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":120,"335559740":276}"> <br><br></span></p>
<p><strong><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 1">What You Will Do</span></span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134245418":true,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559738":220,"335559739":90}"> </span></p>
<ul>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Own one or more systems or environments, covering configuration, monitoring and alerting, upgrades and incident response.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Debug difficult faults, including performance problems, resource exhaustion and integration failures, and take each incident from first symptom to a root cause and a remediation plan that holds.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Configure and tune services with secure, hardened defaults, and turn scan output and logs into lasting remediation.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Plan and execute upgrades and changes under change control, with realistic risk assessment and a tested rollback.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Act as the escalation point for Systems Administrator colleagues, mentor them, and document patterns others can reuse in runbooks and standard operating procedures.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Work across engineering, cyber and data teams on cross-functional problems.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Take part in UK operational coverage, including on-call rotation and structured handovers with the US team.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> <br><br></span></li>
</ul>
<p><strong><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 1">What You Bring</span></span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134245418":true,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559738":220,"335559739":90}"> </span></p>
<ul>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Strong hands-on Linux systems administration in complex, secure production environments, with depth in service behaviour, performance tuning and hardened configuration. Experience on Microsoft Azure, VMware vSphere or similar platforms is transferable.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Sound networking fundamentals, including DNS, DHCP, VLANs, firewalls and routing, and hands-on identity and access management across directory services and cloud platforms.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Working experience with automation and infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker or Packer, and with patching discipline and configuration compliance in an accredited environment.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Curiosity and incident discipline: you diagnose faults under pressure, find the root cause, and record what you found as well as what you fixed.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Experience owning systems, escalating only genuinely novel problems, and mentoring less experienced colleagues deliberately.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Clear written and verbal communication, including when the news is bad, and confident use of ITSM workflows and platforms such as Confluence and Jira.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Judgement with AI tools: applying them where they help, reviewing what they produce and handling sensitive data responsibly.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> <br><br></span></li>
</ul>
<p><strong><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 1">Essential Conditions</span></span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134245418":true,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559738":220,"335559739":90}"> </span></p>
<ul>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Right to work in the UK.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Ability to meet the security requirements above.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Willingness to work 10-hour shifts on a four-on, four-off rota, including weekends and bank holidays. Night shifts may follow as further systems come online and the service moves to 24/7.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="none">Willingness and eligibility to travel to Bluestaq headquarters in the United States for onboarding, and occasionally to sites across the UK and Europe thereafter.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}"> </span></li>
</ul>
<p><strong><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 1">Nice to Have</span></span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134245418":true,"335551550":6,"335551620":6,"33555
Requirements
- UK - Product & Engineering