IT Systems Administrator

Salary: $70,000.00 - $90,000.00 Annually
Location : Denver Metro, CO
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: 2026-MCA26-14
Department: Colorado General Assembly
Division: Legislative Council Services
Opening Date: 10/19/2026
Closing Date: 11/1/2026 11:59 PM Mountain
FLSA: Determined by Position
Primary Physical Work Address: 200 E Colfax Ave. Denver, CO 80203
FLSA Status: Exempt; position is not eligible for overtime compensation.
Department Contact Information:
Type of Announcement: This announcement is not governed by the selection processes of the classified personnel system. Applications will be considered from residents and non-residents of Colorado.
How To Apply: Please submit an online application for this position at Reach out to the Department Contact to apply using a paper application, including any supplemental questions. Failure to submit a complete and timely application may result in the rejection of your application. Applicants are responsible for ensuring that application materials are received by the appropriate Human Resources office before the closing date and time listed.

Department Information
About Legislative Council Staff

Colorado Legislative Council Staff, is the nonpartisan research and support agency of the Colorado General Assembly, the legislative branch of the State of Colorado. The Legislative Information Services ("LIS") team, part of Legislative Council Staff, is responsible for the Colorado legislature's information and technology.
Since 1953, the Colorado Legislative Council Staff (LCS) has provided nonpartisan products and services to the legislature and the public to support and inform the policy making process, preserve the legislative institution, and promote transparency. You will be joining an organization with a rich history that is driven by our mission, vision, and values. Additional information about Legislative Council Staff can be found at: ;br>
Description of Job
About The Position

We're seeking an IT Systems Administrator with technical and professional skills to be a part of our existing System Administration team. As a team member, you will make an impact on the future of legislative engagement in the Colorado community by providing technical support to ensure continuous operation of all IT related assets and services for our diverse professional customer base. Within this unique organization you will experience challenging work while directly contributing to the betterment of Colorado.
The Colorado General Assembly is a small but high-profile state government department with approximately 500 users including 100 legislators. LIS provides computing, network and storage technology infrastructure and systems support to all legislative staff, legislators and others in the Capitol building.
This is a full-time, salaried state employment, onsite position with limited work from home options. You must be authorized to work in the US. Persons seeking contract positions or visa sponsorship need not apply.
Work Location and Remote Work

This position is a hybrid in-person and work-from-home (WFH) position. During the four-month legislative session (January to May), this position will be working in person about a quarter of the time to support the office and the needs of the legislature. During the eight-month legislative interim (May through December), and dependent upon coordination with other in-person staff, this position may work remotely unless required to come in-person for team meetings, project related work or other times when on-site presence is required.
Salary And Benefits

The salary range for this position is $70k to $90k per year, with salary level within this range commensurate with education and experience. Legislative Council Staff employees are not members of the state personnel system.
Legislative Council Staff is committed to providing employees with a strong and competitive benefits package that supports you, your health, and your family. Our benefits package includes:

• PERA retirement benefits, including the PERA Defined Benefit Plan or PERA Defined Contribution Plan, plus 401K and 457 plans;
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage;
• Automatic short-term and optional long-term disability coverage;
• Life and AD&D insurance;
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs);
• A variety of discounts on services and products available through the State of Colorado's Work-Life Employment Discount Program; and
• Credit Union of Colorado membership eligibility.

Our generous and flexible leave policies include:

• A minimum of three weeks of annual leave, based on tenure, and accrued on a monthly basis;
• Eleven annual paid holidays;
• Sick leave;
• Up to eight weeks paid family and medical leave;
• Flexible work schedules during the legislative interim; and
• A generous compensation time policy.

Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights
About You

You must have worked in IT System Administration for at least 5 years or have relevant experience.
You shall demonstrate the following traits:

• Demonstrate exceptional technical competency and be extremely customer service oriented;
• Possess a wide-range of problem-solving skills,
• Team player - able to work with immediate and extended team members and users at all levels;
• Professional phone and desk-side etiquette;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
• Effective time management and ability to prioritize a high-volume workload;
• Ability to meet deadlines while multitasking across multiple projects;
• Strong technical aptitude, with initiative toward learning new skills and assignments;
• Willingness to learn, support and be an expert in existing technologies
• Proactive, independent and collaborative working style with minimal supervision;
• Take ownership of and be accountable for tasks, issues, projects and team;
• Able to de-escalate critical situations within the internal team or with external customers; and
• Follow through on self and team commitments.

Your tasks and responsibilities in this position:

• Provide excellent technical support with a focus on customer service;
• Monitor and respond: analyze, log and resolve software/hardware matters of significance pertaining to networking, servers, and related infrastructure, services and applications to meet business needs;
• Manage user accounts, rights, group policy, permissions, access rights, and other aspects of IAM with best-practices regarding privacy, and security.
• Proactively troubleshoot issues to isolate and diagnose system problems; document system events to ensure continuous functioning.
• Proactively improve upon existing process and training;
• Collaborate across various technical and business teams;
• Work on various projects and backup other team members as assigned.

You possess the following technical skills/knowledge to be successful in this position:

You have worked for 5 years in the IT System Administration Field, or have relevant experience. You must have demonstrable experience to varying degrees in the following areas:

Have strong technical skills in areas such as:

• Microsoft AD-DS, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP
• Manage network file, print, and application resources
• Maintenance of Microsoft Windows Servers and user accounts
• Identity and Access Management
• Backup and recovery job creation, retention, recovery testing, resiliency
• Application upgrades, conversions, and roll-outs
• Manage security practices and procedures for network environment
• LAN, VLAN's, SAN, IPAM, network segmentation
• Collaboration tools and technologies
• 5 or more years of operations experience in a production IT environment
• Strong documentation skills
• Experience working with and contributing to strong IT teams
• Security-first mindset

Preferable if you have experience in the following areas, although it is not a requirement for qualification:

• Cloud computing and storage solutions such as AWS
• Cloud-based email and collaboration tools
• Linux administration
• Containerization tools
• IBM/HCL Domino server administration
• VMWare
• COMPTIA A+/Server/Network+/Security+
• Experience in government, legislative, or regulated environments
• Endpoint management
• ManageEngine Suite
• Experience monitoring UPS systems (APC, Eaton, or equivalent)
• Experience managing IP Phone users, extensions, call queues, auto attendants, and main line routing

Supplemental Information
In order to be considered for the position, your application must be received by November 1, 2026 and include:

• Resume; and
• Cover letter.

A list of three professional references will be requested at a later stage.
Legislative Council Staff is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We are committed to increasing the diversity of our staff. Therefore, we encourage responses from people of diverse backgrounds and abilities.
The Colorado Legislature is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. Our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the application process, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, participating in the employee selection process, and/or performing essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation for applying or interviewing for this position, please direct your inquiries to our ADA Coordinator at or call .
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How many years of hands-on experience managing and troubleshooting both Linux (e.g., Ubuntu, RHEL) and Windows Server environments in a production setting do you possess?

• 0 - 1 year
• 1-3 years
• 3-5 years
• 5-7 years
• 7 years +
• 10 years +

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Have you managed Active Directory, identity access management (IAM), or enterprise single sign-on (SSO) systems like Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) or Okta?

• Yes
• No

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Have you configured, monitored, and routinely tested enterprise backup and disaster recovery processes?

• Yes
• No

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Have you provided direct, real-time technical support to C-level executives, board members, or high-profile stakeholders?

• Yes
• No

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Do you have experience with enterprise storage systems (SAN and NAS)?

• Yes
• No

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Have you administered enterprise Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 environments, including user lifecycle automation, group policy, and shared drive/data access management?

• Yes
• No

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Scenario: Following a scheduled hypervisor cluster patch, a critical database server boots up successfully, and its local services report a status of "running." However, none of the internal application servers can connect to it, and attempts to reach the database via its host name fail completely. When you log in via the hypervisor's out-of-band console, you confirm the server has local disk access and system resources are normal, but it cannot ping its default gateway or any other host on the network.Prompt: Walk us through your step-by-step diagnostic workflow to isolate where the communication breakdown is occurring. Assuming standard diagnostic commands like ping or traceroute offer no useful information, what specific OSI layer-by-layer checks (from virtual hardware/interface up to the application transport layer) would you perform, and how do you systematically rule out potential failure points at each stage?
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Scenario: During a planned off-hours software deployment, a core service fails to start, and the system becomes unresponsive. The rollback procedure fails as well, and you are 30 minutes away from the start of regular business hours.Prompt: How do you approach prioritizing immediate operational business continuity versus preserving logs and evidence for root-cause analysis? Describe a real or hypothetical situation where a standard protocol didn't work as planned, and explain how you adapted your thinking to restore service.
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