Bureaucrat
Bureaucracy, Government Official
noun
A government colleague is someone who works for the bureaucracy, making them a bureaucrat.
Just like the word bureaucracy in English, 官僚 often carries a negative connotation, suggesting red tape, inefficiency, or the power and influence that senior civil servants might wield within the government.
This is a jukugo word, which usually means on'yomi readings from the kanji. If you know the readings of your kanji you'll know how to read this as well.
彼は官僚出身だけど、腰が低くていいやつだよ。
He comes from a bureaucratic background, but he's humble and a good guy.
きっとアイツらみんな、我々キャリア官僚が天下りするのは当然の権利だとか思ってるんじゃない？
I'm sure they all think something like, "It's our rightful privilege as career bureaucrats to secure cushy post-retirement jobs."
大きくなった国家に必ず官僚主義がはびこるように、大きくなった組織は、みんな大企業病にかかるんです。いわゆる官僚組織ってやつですよ。
Just as bureaucratism inevitably spreads in a large nation, every large organization ends up suffering from what we call "big company syndrome." It's what you might refer to as a bureaucratic organization.