Network Engineer

Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR electronic warfare secure communications aerial refuelling special air missions aerial firefighting and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing building and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service spanning people finance platform operations legal and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas EMEA and Asia-Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects not just equipment. By owning the full stack from the lab to the field we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. Its a fast-moving intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility work on problems that matter and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington DC with facilities across the United States the United Kingdom as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

GroupOverview

MetreaManagement Limited delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areasincluding airborne ISR electronic warfare secure communications aerial refuelling special mission aviation aerial firefighting and advanced simulation.

Wherever weoperate we build vertically integrated full stacks of capabilitydesigning building and operating turnkey solutions that let customers scale capacity whilebenefitingfrom continuous cycles of innovation. With operators and engineers under one roof we close the gap between lab and fieldwhat we call connecting design with effect.

Metreassolutions are built for elegance: effective efficient and evolving. This approach enables our partners to do more with less and achieveoutsized asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Headquartered in Washington DCMetreahas facilities across the United States the United Kingdom Europe and beyond.

This role sits within the MAME area of Platform Group IT Engineering. Responsible for the design deployment and operational support of IT infrastructure across Metreas global platforms.

Position Summary

In this role you will serve as a key member of our enterprise IT team building maintaining and securing the network infrastructure that keeps our organization connected and mission-ready across on-premises cloud and hybrid environments.
You will partner with the Senior Network Engineer cybersecurity cloud operations and IT support teams to deliver resilient high-performance communicationsincluding classified en-vironments. You will be successful if you thrive in a fast-paced security-focused setting take ownership of complex network challenges and are driven by continuous improvement.
This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on engineer looking to grow professionally while making a direct impact on the availability security and performance of critical network sys-tems.

What Youll Do

• Design deploy and maintain enterprise network infrastructurerouters switches firewalls and wireless access pointsacross classified and unclassified environments
• Configure and optimize LAN WAN WLAN SD-WAN and VPN solutions using platforms such as Cisco Aruba and Palo Alto
• Implement and enforce network security controls including firewall policies ACLs IDS/IPS NAC and network segmentation aligned with NIST CMMC ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials frameworks
• Support cloud and hybrid network connectivity across AWS and Azure including VNETs VPCs VPN gateways ExpressRoute and Direct Connect
• Deploy and manage enterprise wireless networksaccess points controllers SSID/VLAN configuration WPA3/802.1X security and RADIUS integration
• Perform Tier 2/3 troubleshooting root cause analysis and incident response to maintain 99.99% network uptime
• Monitor network health and security posture using tools such as SolarWinds Netwatch SNMP NetFlow Wireshark and SIEM platforms
• Execute change management activities including firmware upgrades patch management VLAN provisioning and routing updates
• Create and maintain network documentation: runbooks SOPs network diagrams device inventories and post-incident reports
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Systems Administration DevOps Security and the SOC; coordinate with vendors on hardware/software issues

What You Bring

• 58 years of hands-on experience in network engineering or administration supporting multi-site enterprise environments (500 endpoints)
• Strong command of TCP/IP OSI model routing protocols (BGP OSPF EIGRP) and switching technologies (VLANs STP VxLAN)
• Demonstrated experience with Cisco (Catalyst Nexus) and/or Aruba enterprise networking platforms
• Working knowledge of Palo Alto firewalls or equivalent enterprise firewall solutions
• Solid understanding of VPN technologies (IPSec SSL/TLS) DNS DHCP IPAM and core network services
• Experience with network monitoring logging and analysis tools (SNMP NetFlow syslog Wireshark)
• Familiarity with wireless networking technologies (802.11ax/Wi-Fi 6 controller-based architectures)
• Foundational understanding of cloud networking concepts (Azure VNETs AWS VPCs security groups route tables)

In addition to the above any of the following would be beneficial:

Benefits

• Private Medical Insurance
• Subsidised gym membership/plans throughWellhub
• Electric Car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary-sacrificed pension scheme
• Free lunch on office days
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• 30 days annual PTO plus b/h
• Bonus Scheme
• Personal development opportunities

Work Authorization / Security Clearance

The employee will have the legal right to work in theUnited Kingdom and will be able to producethe rightto work documentation.

AAP/EEO Statement

MetreaManagement Limitedis an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or other characteristics protected by law.

PositionTypeandExpectedHoursofWork

This is a full-time non-exempt position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m. to6:00p.m. Hours and work shifts may changein accordance withdepartment and business needs. Exempt Employees must have the ability to be on-call and available as business needs require. Non-Exempt employees maybe requiredto work over40hours per week with approval from the department manager.

WorkEnvironment

Hybrid; minimum of 3 days/week onsite London UK

Travel

Travel is required around 25%