Technical Operations SME

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 refueling, 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. It's 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.

Group Overview

Electromagnetic and Cyber Group (EM&C) is responsible for developing flexible and survivable advanced electronic warfare and secure communications equipment while providing the industry’s leading signals intelligence, electronic warfare, and cyber experts.   Metrea  specializes in signal classification, direction finding, advanced geolocation techniques, and waveform development including waveforms for MANET and LPI/LPD applications.  Metrea  also develops special purpose radios for government customers and licenses DF and geolocation solutions to multiple OEMs. 
Position Summary

This role is responsible for providing technical operations expertise, mission support, research and development, and solution design in support real world ISR mission efforts.
What You'll Do

- Serve as a subject matter expert dedicated to identifying, developing, and delivering technical solutions in support of real world ISR mission efforts

- Serve as a command and control liaison between the customer and mission platforms

- Conduct research and development on emerging technologies, equipment, and TTPs in support of MSO’s operational solutions

- Maintain and continuously improve personal technical proficiency in applicable technologies, TTPs, and equipment

- Interface and coordinate with other Metrea entities, customers, external vendors, and attend applicable technical trade shows, workshops, and other events on behalf of Metrea

- Strengthen technical proficiency and customer relationships by serving as an instructor for the department on an episodic basis

What You Bring

- 20 years’ experience in a similar role, including at least five overseas deployments with Special Operations Forces or the IC in a technical operations role (SI/EW operator, tactical Cyber operator, or equivalent)

- Must possess above average initiative and the ability to work independently with minimal supervision or guidance

- Must possess strong technical proficiency in Signals Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Cyberspace theory, operations, TTPs, equipment, and associated technologies, to include, but not limited to: LINUX, computer networking, antenna construction/employment, and HF/VHF/UHF, DMR, GSM, CDMA, UMTS, LTE, 802.11, and Bluetooth protocols

- Must possess experience and a working proficiency in Human Intelligence/Counterintelligenc