Mission Network Engineer

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🏛️ District of Columbia, North Carolina, +1 more states – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote 🌲 North Carolina – Remote 🦀 Maryland – Remote

💵 $150k - $185k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🛜 Network Engineer / Network Administrator

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Metrea

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2016

🎖️ Defense

🚀 Aerospace

🔐 Security

Defense • Aerospace • Security

Metrea is the originator and leading provider of "effects-as-a-service" to national security partners, designing, engineering, operating, and delivering full‑stack solutions across air, electromagnetic/cyber, and digital/synthetic mission domains. The company combines commercial technology and business models with operational expertise to rapidly field turnkey capabilities—such as Airborne ISR, special mission aviation, and aerial firefighting—delivered on an agile, pay-for-performance service basis. Metrea emphasizes vertical integration (lab-to-field), continuous improvement from operational feedback, and taking operational ownership and risk to produce mission outcomes for government and defense customers.

📋 Description

• Design, build, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot complex commercial, classified, controlled, and mission-specific network environments • Support network infrastructure for enterprise information systems, remote ISR systems, and distributed operational environments • Configure and manage routing, switching, firewalls, VPNs, secure remote access, wireless networking, virtual networking, Linux networking, and network security appliances • Implement secure tunneling, remote access, mesh VPN, site-to-site VPN, overlay networking, and resilient communications solutions • Develop and maintain secure network architectures supporting segmentation, access control, traffic protection, low-signature communications, obfuscation, monitoring, and operational security • Troubleshoot connectivity and performance issues across physical and virtual networks, Linux systems, VPNs, cloud services, endpoints, servers, security tools, ISR systems, and mission applications • Monitor network performance, analyze traffic, conduct packet capture, and recommend improvements for reliability, capacity, security, and quality of service • Plan and execute network upgrades, expansion, lifecycle management, configuration changes, and technical improvements • Evaluate, test, and integrate network technologies, communications tools, open-source platforms, appliances, and services • Support network security, compliance, and incident response, including firewall policy management, segmentation, logging, IDS/IPS integration, vulnerability remediation, documentation, and audit support • Create and maintain network diagrams, technical documentation, configuration baselines, standard operating procedures, implementation guides, records, and reports • Coordinate with systems administrators, cybersecurity teams, vendors, technical teams, and mission stakeholders • Provide technical guidance to less-experienced staff as needed

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Network Engineering, Communications Systems, or related discipline; relevant military, government, or industry experience may be considered in lieu of degree • Minimum 7 years of experience designing, administering, securing, and troubleshooting complex network environments in secure, classified, mission-critical, operational, or highly technical settings • Broad hands-on knowledge across networking, Linux, virtualization, secure communications, systems integration, and operational infrastructure • Strong experience with TCP/IP, routing, switching, VLANs, subnetting, DNS, DHCP, NAT, firewalls, VPNs, wireless networking, secure remote access, Linux networking, and command-line troubleshooting • Experience designing and supporting physical, virtual, cloud, hybrid, distributed, Linux-based, or mission-specific network architectures • Experience with Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Aruba, Ubiquiti, MikroTik, pfSense, OPNsense, WireGuard, NetBird, Tailscale, OpenVPN, IPsec, or equivalent tools • Experience with secure tunneling, overlay networks, mesh VPNs, redundant connectivity, failover, virtual appliances, and resilient communications architectures • Understanding of OPSEC-informed network design, traffic protection, infrastructure concealment, anonymity, obfuscation, low-signature communications, and secure communications techniques • Experience with network monitoring, packet capture, logging, SIEM, IDS/IPS, vulnerability remediation, scripting, automation, technical documentation, and compliance frameworks such as NIST 800-171, DFARS 252.204-7012, CMMC, or RMF • Strong communication skills and ability to work independently in ambiguous environments • Must be a U.S. citizen and legally authorized to work in the United States • Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government TS/SCI security clearance • Additional eligibility qualifications include secure/classified network, U.S. Government/DoD/military/intelligence/SOF/ISR/EW/cyber, OPSEC, incident response, audit, vulnerability management, and accreditation experience; relevant certifications and active Secret, Top Secret, or TS/SCI clearance are preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical plan options • HSA/FSA accounts • Dental and vision coverage • 6% employer 401(k) match • Fully paid parental leave for all new parents • Generous PTO • Life and disability insurance • Long-term and Short-term disability coverage • AD&D Coverage • Pet Insurance • Employee Assistance Program • Subsidized gym membership / plans through Wellhub