Operational Infrastructure Manager

Metrea; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical plan options

401(k) with 6% employer match

Paid parental leave

Pet insurance

Gym membership subsidization

Job summary

Metrea is looking for an Operational Infrastructure Manager in Washington, DC, to oversee the planning and coordination of essential operational infrastructure. This includes managing vendor relationships, logistics, and ensuring mission readiness for programs.

The ideal candidate will have 20+ years in aerospace, defense, or logistics, demonstrating strong skills in risk management and vendor coordination. The position requires U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a TS/SCI clearance.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in aerospace, defense, logistics, or operational support.
• Demonstrated ability to manage vendors and operational functions.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and coordination of operational infrastructure.
• Manage vendor relationships and logistics support.
• Identify operational risks and gaps.

Skills

Logistics management

Vendor management

Operational support

Risk management

Communication

Education

20+ years in relevant fields

Job description

Overview

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. 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

Group Overview Electromagnetic and Cyber Group (EM&C) is responsible fordeveloping 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

Position Summary The Operational Infrastructure Manager leads the planning, coordination, and sustainment of infrastructure required to support sensitive, distributed, and operationally demanding programs. This includes the facilities, equipment, supply chains, vendors, transportation pathways, access requirements, communications support, security considerations, and sustainment processes necessary to keep mission teams ready and effective.

What You'll Do

• Lead the planning, coordination, and sustainment of the operational infrastructure system required to support current programs and future lines of effort
• Translate emerging mission requirements into executable logistics and infrastructure support plans, including facilities, equipment, vendors, transportation, access, communications support, and sustainment needs
• Manage a portfolio of vendors, partners, service providers, and supporting companies to ensure external support remains reliable, accountable, cost-effective, and aligned to operational requirements
• Coordinate infrastructure support across teammates, programs, security, finance, vendors, partners, and capability areas to ensure support remains aligned to mission priorities, compliance requirements, cost controls, and real-world constraints
• Maintain readiness of facilities, equipment, supply chains, and support pathways so teams can deploy, operate, and sustain capability with minimal disruption
• Identify gaps, weak links, and single points of failure across facilities, vendors, supply chains, equipment, access, and support processes; develop practical strategies to improve reliability, scalability, resilience, and operational continuity
• Establish and maintain vendor relationships, supply chains, facilities options, and service-provider pathways required to support distributed operations and additional lines of effort
• Manage infrastructure and logistics risk, including access limitations, vendor dependencies, supply chain exposure, compliance requirements, environmental factors, geopolitical constraints, facility issues, travel limitations, and changing mission requirements
• Establish practical systems for tracking requirements, assets, vendors, costs, timelines, operational dependencies, readiness status, and lessons learned

What You Bring

• 20+ years of combined experience in aerospace, defense, intelligence, logistics, infrastructure, operational support, or other mission-focused environments
• Significant experience leading logistics, infrastructure, facilities, vendor, or operational support functions in complex, distributed, or sensitive environments
• Proven ability to translate operational requirements into practical support plans involving facilities, equipment, vendors, transportation, access, supply chains, and sustainment
• Experience managing budgets, forecasts, spend plans, vendor costs, or resource allocation in support of operational priorities
• Demonstrated ability to identify process gaps, weak links, and operational dependencies, then build practical systems that improve accountability, reliability, and scalability
• Experience managing external relationships across vendors, partners, service providers, subcontractors, or supporting organizations
• Experience coordinating across diverse stakeholders, including operators, program managers, security, finance, vendors, executive leadership, and external partners
• Familiarity with facility moves, expansions, closures, buildouts, continuity planning, or infrastructure projects that require disciplined coordination and risk management
• Strong understanding of vendor management, procurement, inventory control, accountable property, transportation, warehousing, distribution, or supply chain operations
• Ability to manage competing priorities under ambiguity while maintaining sound judgment, discretion, documentation, and follow-through
• Comfort operating in environments where security, compliance, financial controls, and operational effectiveness must be balanced without slowing mission execution
• Strong communication skills with the ability to brief leadership, clarify requirements, document decisions, work independently, and develop 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

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

• Experience supporting U.S. Government, DoD, military, intelligence, SOF, ISR, EW, cyber, emergency management, expeditionary logistics, or other national security environments
• Experience supporting overseas, remote, austere, or otherwise infrastructure-constrained locations
• Ability to work across time zones and respond to time-sensitive operational support requirements when necessary
• Ability to operate in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where priorities, access, timelines, and support requirements may change with limited notice
• Familiarity with federal contracting environments, government property accountability, con-trolled access programs, or compliance-driven procurement processes
• Active TS/SCI clearance 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
• Subsided gym membership / plans throughWellhub

Work Authorization / Security Clearance

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position requires eligibility to obtain a TS/SCI clearance. U.S. citizenship is required. Candidates will be subject to a background investigation in accordance with federal requirements.

AAP/EEO Statement

Metrea Spectrum Operations LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time exempt position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Hours and work shifts may change in accordance with department and business needs. Exempt Employees must have the ability to be on-call and available, as business needs require.

Work Environment

This job operates in an office setting.

Travel

Frequent travel to our US facilities (FL, DC, MD, NY, and CA) and overseas locations as required, not to exceed 20% of the time.

Our Firmware

At Metrea, our single core value is Rooted in Humility, and our four cornerstone attributes are Entrepreneurial, Systematic, Discerning, and Over-Deliver. These form what we call our Teammate Firmware. Just like technical firmware connects software and hardware, our Firmware is the constant interface between our mission and our people. It defines how we show up, how we work together, and how we solve complex problems.

Our team Firmware creates a web-like, hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift fluidly as priorities evolve, and operate with the trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. This foundation allows us to deliver elegant, effective solutions and uphold our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.