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Job Summary:
Metrea is a company that delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across multiple domains. The Mission Network Engineer is responsible for maintaining, securing, and evolving complex network environments that support various information systems and operations, requiring a broad technical foundation in networking and secure communications.
Responsibilities:
• 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 using technologies such as WireGuard, NetBird, Tailscale, OpenVPN, IPsec, or equivalent tools
• Develop and maintain secure network architectures that support segmentation, access control, traffic protection, low-signature communications, obfuscation, monitoring, and operational security requirements
• Troubleshoot complex connectivity and performance issues across physical networks, 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 provide recommendations for reliability, capacity, security, and quality of service
• Plan and execute network upgrades, expansion, lifecycle management, configuration changes, and technical improvements to support evolving mission and enterprise requirements
• Evaluate, test, and integrate new network technologies, communications tools, open-source platforms, appliances, and services
• Support network security, compliance, and incident response activities, 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, cross-functional technical teams, and mission stakeholders to resolve issues and support project delivery
• Provide technical guidance to less-experienced staff as needed.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 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 network, firewall, VPN, and routing technologies such as 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
• Experience supporting remote systems, distributed infrastructure, fielded technical systems, ISR systems, tactical networks, expeditionary networks, or other non-standard communications environments preferred
• 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 while developing practical solutions for unique operational requirements
• Must be a U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance
Preferred:
• Experience supporting U.S. Government, DoD, military, intelligence, SOF, ISR, EW, cyber, or other national security environments
• Experience supporting classified, compartmented, protected, or controlled network environments such as SIPR, JWICS, SAP, SCI, or equivalent environments
• Previous military, defense, government, or operational experience involving secure communications, mission networks, tactical networking, remote ISR systems, or non-standard communications architectures
• Experience with SOF, JSOC, Special Operations, intelligence, U.S. National Laboratories, protected research environments, restricted engineering environments, or similar security-sensitive technical organizations
• Familiarity with zero-trust architecture, cross-domain solutions, network segmentation, secure transport, tunneling, overlay networks, mesh VPNs, traffic shaping, network obfuscation, anonymity, and low-signature infrastructure concepts
• Experience supporting networks with unique OPSEC, access control, attribution-management, export control, or infrastructure protection requirements
• Completion of relevant operational network and secure communications training preferred, including operational infrastructure, remote bridging, network analysis, Linux for operators, digital signature reduction, tunneling, secure transport, and operational network infrastructure
• Experience developing or supporting incident response playbooks, internal security audits, vulnerability management activities, inspections, or accreditation efforts
• Certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, CompTIA Network+, Security+, CySA+, CISSP, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Juniper, Linux+, cloud networking, or equivalent certifications in networking, security, cloud, or infrastructure engineering
• Active Secret, Top Secret, or TS/SCI clearance
Company:
Metrea is a defense company that provides solutions to the national security problems by commercial business models. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in Washington, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.