Program Security Manager

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

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

The Program Security Manager is responsible for developing, coordinating, and sustaining the security, risk mitigation, and mission assurance framework required to support sensitive operational programs. This role integrates counter-intelligence awareness, operational security, collection management support, and planning discipline to help protect personnel, capabilities, partners, infrastructure, and activities across complex mission environments.

This position supports programs that may involve distributed teams, compartmented information, operational ambiguity, non-standard infrastructure, sensitive partnerships, and time-sensitive requirements. The Program Security Manager works across program leadership, operations personnel, planners, technical teams, vendors, and government stakeholders to identify risk, strengthen controls, support decision-making, and ensure practical security oversight is built into planning and execution.

What You'll Do

Serve as the primary security, risk, and mission assurance advisor for sensitive programs and operational activities.

Assess threats, vulnerabilities, and operational risks related to personnel, partners, facilities, technology, supply chains, access, infrastructure, and the information environment.

Support planning and execution of sensitive activities by integrating counter-intelligence, operational security, risk mitigation, and collection management considerations.

Develop and maintain risk assessments, mitigation plans, decision briefs, operational security products, and executive-level recommendations.

Review operational concepts, plans, activities, and proposed partnerships to identify security risks, exposure concerns, compliance issues, or potential adversary exploitation paths.

Coordinate with program managers, operators, planners, technical personnel, vendors, partners, and government stakeholders to ensure risk mitigation measures are practical, executable, and aligned with mission requirements.

Support collection management and reporting workflows, including requirements tracking, reporting review, information management, and feedback on operational relevance.

Help identify intelligence gaps, information requirements, and collection priorities that support operational planning, threat understanding, and decision-making.

Contribute to operational planning products such as CONOPS, briefings, decision papers, risk matrices, after-action reviews, and mitigation recommendations.

Monitor ongoing activities to ensure security controls, OPSEC practices, and mitigation measures remain effective as the mission environment changes.

Support incident reviews, anomaly assessments, and lessons-learned processes to identify root causes, potential compromise, and corrective actions.

Prepare and deliver clear, concise briefings to senior leaders and stakeholders on operational risk, threat posture, mitigation options, and mission impact.

Help build repeatable processes for sensitive program security, documentation, oversight, deconfliction, and risk governance.

What You Bring

20+ years of combined experience in SOF, Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, interagency, or sensitive commercial operations.

Strong understanding of counter-intelligence, operational security, risk mitigation, and sensitive activity support.

Experience evaluating risk to personnel, infrastructure, technology, access, vendors, partners, supply chains, or operational plans.

Ability to translate complex threat, security, and intelligence information into practical recommendations for operators and senior leaders.

Familiarity with intelligence cycle activities, collection requirements, operational reporting, information management, and decision-support products.

Experience supporting operational planning, mission management, staff coordination, or effects-based planning.

Ability to work independently in ambiguous, fast-moving, and sensitive environments with limited oversight.

Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare executive-level briefings, assessments, and formal recommendations.

Sound judgment, discretion, and the ability to protect sensitive information while enabling operational outcomes.

Experience developing or reviewing CONOPS, OPORDs, operational briefs, risk assessments, information papers, or senior-leader decision products.

Familiarity with FIE threat analysis, pattern-of-life analysis, vulnerability assessment, operational deconfliction, or adversary targeting methodologies.

Experience coordinating with government customers, operational units, partner organizations, vendors, or interagency stakeholders.

Understanding of Intelligence Community policies, oversight requirements, reporting standards, or collection management processes.

Must be a U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of relevant experience; additional operational, military, intelligence, or government experience may be considered in lieu of degree.

Completion of a recognized U.S. Government or DoD source-handling certification course, such as Category I HUMINT or equivalent.

Demonstrated experience supporting sensitive operations, intelligence activities, national security programs, or risk-managed operational environments.

Experience producing written assessments, briefings, reports, mitigation plans, or decision-support products.

Ability to manage multiple priorities, operate with discretion, and support time-sensitive requirements.

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 through Wellhub

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.

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.