Delivery Engineer - Cloud & Automation at Bluestaq

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>About Bluestaq<br></strong>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>Our name?</strong> "Blue" (military shorthand for the good guys) and "staq" (as in software stack). It's who we are, mission-aligned technologists building platforms that protect the world’s most valuable data.</p> <p><strong>Recognized Excellence</strong> We've earned national recognition as one of Inc. Magazine's Fastest-Growing Private Companies and consistently rank among Colorado's Best Workplaces. But what we're most proud of? The systems we build, the teams we develop, and the mission outcomes we enable.</p></div><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span data-contrast="auto"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 1">Delivery Engineer</span><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 1">&nbsp;— Cloud &amp; Automation</span></span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:322,&quot;335559739&quot;:322}">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Design and Integrate Systems for Mission Success</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0pt; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Bluestaq is hiring a Delivery Engineer to operate and evolve our Kubernetes-based platform on AWS. You will own the deployment automation, day-to-day production health, and incident response for the services that power the Unified Data Library (UDL) — a mission-critical data platform used across government and commercial space operations.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11.0pt; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a hands-on platform/SRE role. You will spend your time deploying infrastructure with Terraform/Terragrunt, debugging failed rollouts in EKS, chasing latency and error spikes through Grafana and traces, and remediating production issues in Kubernetes directly.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span data-contrast="auto"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 2">Why This Role Matters</span></span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:299,&quot;335559739&quot;:299}">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span data-contrast="auto">Bluestaq&nbsp;delivers integrated, secure, and reliable systems for customers&nbsp;operating&nbsp;in mission-critical and commercially demanding environments. Systems engineering is at the core of how we win, deliver, and scale. Without strong systems engineering execution, our teams&nbsp;can't&nbsp;move fast, our systems&nbsp;can't&nbsp;stay secure, and our customers&nbsp;can't&nbsp;rely on the technology that supports their operations.</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span data-contrast="auto">This role is foundational to the team and the organization. Your work spans defined features, environments, and components within a team, with growing independence,&nbsp;which means your decisions, your designs, and your technical judgment have a direct and measurable effect on what&nbsp;Bluestaq&nbsp;delivers.&nbsp;We're&nbsp;building a culture of ownership and technical excellence, and we need people who bring both depth and the right mindset to do it.</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18.0pt; color: black;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">What Success Looks Like in the First 90 Days</span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Comfortable deploying and updating services across our EKS environments via Terragrunt and Argo CD</span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Independently triaging Grafana alerts and resolving common production issues</span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Contributing improvements to runbooks, dashboards, or automation based on at least one real incident</span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Participating in the on-call rotation</span></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span data-contrast="auto"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 2">Key Responsibilities</span></span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:299,&quot;335559739&quot;:299}">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <ul style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Deploy and maintain UDL platform infrastructure on AWS EKS using&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 11pt;">Terraform and Terragrunt</span></span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Manage application rollouts via&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 11pt;">Argo CD / GitOps</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">&nbsp;workflows; troubleshoot failed deployments, upgrades, and sync issues</span></span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Monitor production service health using&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 11pt;">Grafana dashboards, logs, and distributed traces</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">; drive incidents to root cause</span></span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Perform live remediation in Kubernetes — pod restarts, rolling updates, scaling, node draining, debugging stuck workloads</span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Improve observability coverage, alert quality, and runbooks based on what you learn from real incidents</span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Automate repetitive operational toil using Python, Bash, or PowerShell</span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Partner with product, security, and engineering teams to ship changes safely into regulated environments</span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge across the platform team</span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Participate in an on-call rotation for production support</span></span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span data-contrast="auto"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 2">Qualifications &amp; Skills</span></span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:299,&quot;335559739&quot;:299}">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <ul style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 11pt;">3–6 years</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">&nbsp;in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure roles</span></span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Production experience operating&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 11pt;">Kubernetes</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">&nbsp;(EKS preferred) — deployments, services, ingress, troubleshooting failed pods/rollouts</span></span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Hands-on experience with&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 11pt;">Terraform</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">&nbsp;(Terragrunt a plus) provisioning AWS infrastructure</span></span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Strong&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 11pt;">AWS</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">&nbsp;fundamentals (IAM, VPC, EC2, EKS, S3, CloudWatch)</span></span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Comfort working in&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 11pt;">Linux</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">&nbsp;environments and writing automation in Python, Bash, or PowerShell</span></span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Experience with&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 11pt;">observability tooling</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">&nbsp;— Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent log/metrics/trace platforms</span></span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Strong problem-solving skills and clear written/verbal communication, especially during incidents</span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Bachelor's degree plus 4+ years experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience)</span></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}">Preferred Experience</span></strong></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <ul style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Argo CD or other GitOps tooling at scale</span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Helm and/or Kustomize for Kubernetes manifest management</span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Kafka / Amazon MSK operations</span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Service mesh experience (Istio, Linkerd)</span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Incident response leadership and postmortem authorship</span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or similar)</span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Experience operating in regulated, security-conscious environments (FedRAMP, IL4/5, DoD)</span></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span data-contrast="auto"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 2">Additional Requirements</span></span></strong></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <ul style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">U.S. citizenship required (clearance-eligible position)</span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">On-site presence in Colorado Springs required</span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">May require eligibility for TS/SCI security clearance</span></li> </ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="title">Salary Range (CO)</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$95,000</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$140,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>Clearance Requirement:</strong> This position may require the ability to obtain a TS/SCI Clearance. To be eligible for a security clearance, U.S. citizenship is required, and an employee must agree to participate in a background screen and credit check. Eligibility for a TS/SCI Clearance will be assessed as part of the onboarding process or based on programmatic needs.</p> <p><strong>Physical Requirements:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.</li> <li>Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.</li> <li>Must be able to access and navigate each department at the organization's facilities.</li> </ul> <hr> <p><strong>Relocation:</strong> This position does not offer relocation. Candidates must live in the immediate area or relocate at their own expense.</p> <p><strong>Bluestaq is an Equal Opportunity Employer.</strong>&nbsp;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.</p> <p>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 <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>.</p> <p><strong>Date the Position Closes:</strong> Applications will be accepted for 60 days beyond the posting date, or until the position is filled, whichever comes first.</p></div>