Systems Administrator

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.

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.

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.

We are seeking an experienced Classified Systems Administrator to support, maintain, and secure our mission-critical, high-consequence classified IT infrastructure. In this role, you will be the core technical lead overseeing a mixed Linux and Microsoft Windows environment, with a heavy focus on air-gapped, secure systems built for the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD). The ideal candidate has a strong “ownership mentality,” is highly proactive, and possesses a deep, proven background in multitier support, bare-metal hardware configuration, and the strict security hardening protocols required to achieve and maintain an Authority to Operate (ATO).

• Provide comprehensive 1st, 2nd, and 3rd tier IT support across complex classified environments and secure air-gapped networks
• Execute rigid security configuration and system hardening utilizing DISA STIGs, SCAP tools, and other federal cybersecurity best practices to ensure strict compliance with government directives
• Configure, optimize, and maintain critical enterprise services including Active Directory (AD), Group Policy, Identity Management/LDAP, DNS, DHCP, repository servers, and patch deployment systems
• Administer virtualized environments using Hyer-V and VMware. Develop and execute systematic backup scripts and disaster recovery procedures to safeguard critical intelligence data
• Take hands‑on ownership of physical rack components, low‑voltage cabling, server hardware configurations,…