Test & Validation Integration Engineer - Federal Customer

Test & Validation Integration Engineer
(On-site role - 5 days per week - Active TS/SCI required)
The Test & Validation Integration Engineer serves as the critical bridge between staging and field deployment, ensuring enterprise-grade infrastructure operates seamlessly before reaching production sites. In this role, you will physically rack, stack, cable, and configure complex, multi-vendor compute, storage, and networking systems within a controlled lab environment. You will execute rigorous pre-deployment functionality tests, validate interoperability across network and container stacks, and fine-tune staging workflows to guarantee that onsite field teams can bring systems online rapidly with minimal friction. When configuration defects, hardware anomalies, or deployment bottlenecks arise, you will troubleshoot issues down to the component or protocol level, author prescriptive deployment runbooks, and collaborate directly with systems and network architects to ensure repeatable, zero-defect rollouts.
What You’ll Do
● Rack, Stack & Physical Integration: Physically assemble, mount, and cable high-density Dell PowerEdge servers, high-performance storage arrays, and network appliances within standard data center racks following structured cabling and thermal best practices.
● Multi-Vendor Device Provisioning: Apply baseline firmware, out-of-band management settings (iDRAC, console), and initial configurations across Cisco, Arista switches, Palo Alto firewalls, and Dell storage systems.
● Execute End-to-End Functionality Testing: Perform comprehensive pre-shipment validation, testing network throughput, VLAN segmentation, routing protocols, firewall policy enforcement, and storage volume availability prior to crating and shipping.
● Container & Platform Validation: Deploy, bootstrap, and validate baseline Kubernetes clusters across bare-metal and virtualized nodes, verifying container runtime health, CNI network plumbing, and persistent storage integration.
● Build & Optimize Deployment Runbooks: Formulate and refine step-by-step staging and commissioning procedures, identifying failure points in the lab so that field technicians can execute plug-and-play onsite activations with minimal engineering overhead.
Required Qualifications
● Systems & Network Integration: Hands-on experience racking, stacking, cabling, and configuring enterprise infrastructure—specifically involving Cisco, Arista, and Palo Alto hardware platforms.
● Server & High-Performance Storage: Practical proficiency provisioning enterprise compute (Dell PowerEdge) and enterprise storage fabrics (SAN/NAS, iSCSI, NVMe-oF, or NFS), including RAID configuration and out-of-band management (iDRAC).

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