Lab Test & Validation Engineer — TS/SCI, On‑Site Chantilly

Quantum Sky; Chantilly (VA); Sur place; USD 120 000 - 140 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Health/Dental/Vision

401(k) match

Paid Time Off

Résumé du poste

Quantum Sky is seeking a Test & Validation Integration Engineer to support an Intel customer in Chantilly, VA. You will bridge staging and field deployment, rack and configure multi-vendor systems, and validate interoperability across networks and container stacks.

The role requires hands-on lab work with Dell PowerEdge servers, Cisco/Arista hardware, and Kubernetes platforms, plus a TS/SCI clearance and the ability to lift up to 50 lbs; on-site work in Chantilly, Virginia is expected.

Qualifications

• Hands-on racking, stacking, cabling, and configuring enterprise infrastructure.
• Experience with Dell PowerEdge servers and high-performance storage.
• Experience provisioning Cisco, Arista, and Palo Alto devices.
• Kubernetes environments installation and validation.
• Active TS/SCI clearance required; ability to obtain access.
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs.

Responsabilités

• 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.

Connaissances

System & Network Integration

Server & Storage Administration

Pre-Deployment Diagnostics

Documentation & SOPs

Security Clearance TS/SCI

Physical Lifting

Outils

Kubernetes

Ansible

Terraform

Python

Bash

iDRAC Management

Description du poste

Quantum Sky is seeking a Test & Validation Integration Engineer to support an Intel customer in Chantilly, VA. You will bridge staging and field deployment, rack and configure multi-vendor systems, and validate interoperability across networks and container stacks.

The role requires hands-on lab work with Dell PowerEdge servers, Cisco/Arista hardware, and Kubernetes platforms, plus a TS/SCI clearance and the ability to lift up to 50 lbs; on-site work in Chantilly, Virginia is expected.