Network Staging Lab Engineer — Deployment-Ready Networking

Blackstone Technology Group; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackstone Talent Group in Dallas is seeking a Network Staging Lab Engineer to prepare, stage, validate, test, and document network infrastructure before deployment. This role supports global expansion, refresh, and migration projects by ensuring devices are configured, tested, and validated according to company standards prior to shipment.

Responsibilities include rack and cable work, loading OS/firmware, verifying versions, deployment readiness, lab inventory maintenance, automation support,

Qualifications

• Education: Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Network Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Experience: 3+ years hands-on networking equipment experience.
• Experience with staging, deployment, or network operations environments.
• Experience working in data center environments.

Responsibilities

• Network Staging & Validation: Receive, inventory, and track network equipment entering the staging lab.
• Rack, stack, cable, and power network devices including routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, and out-of-band management equipment.
• Install and validate hardware components, optics, power supplies, and cabling.
• Load operating systems, firmware, and approved software releases.
• Verify software and firmware versions against approved security baselines.
• Perform configuration deployment and baseline validation testing.

Skills

Ethernet switching

TCP/IP fundamentals

VLANs

Routing (OSPF/BGP)

Network security basics

Cisco/Juniper/Arista hardware

ZTP / NetBox knowledge

Python automation

Ansible

Git

Education

Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Network Engineering, or equivalent experience

Tools

NetBox

Cisco IOS

Juniper Junos

Arista EOS

Git

Job description

Blackstone Talent Group in Dallas is seeking a Network Staging Lab Engineer to prepare, stage, validate, test, and document network infrastructure before deployment. This role supports global expansion, refresh, and migration projects by ensuring devices are configured, tested, and validated according to company standards prior to shipment.

Responsibilities include rack and cable work, loading OS/firmware, verifying versions, deployment readiness, lab inventory maintenance, automation support,