Test & Validation Integration Engineer - TS​/SCI clearance

Location: Chantilly, VA
Work Arrangement: 100% Onsite – 5 Days per Week
Security Clearance: Active TS/SCI Required
Position: Test & Validation / Systems Integration Engineering

PGTEK is seeking a skilled Test & Validation Integration Engineer to support a federal customer in Chantilly, VA. This position serves as the critical link between laboratory staging and field deployment, ensuring enterprise infrastructure is fully integrated, tested, validated, and ready for production before reaching operational sites.

The successful candidate will perform hands-on integration of enterprise compute, storage, and networking infrastructure in a controlled laboratory environment. Responsibilities include rack-and-stack operations, structured cabling, hardware provisioning, configuration, troubleshooting, and comprehensive pre-deployment testing.

This role requires a strong technical background across enterprise hardware, networking, storage, and Kubernetes environments. The engineer will identify and resolve hardware and configuration issues, validate interoperability across infrastructure components, and develop detailed deployment documentation to ensure consistent, reliable installations.

The ideal candidate is a technically capable, detail-oriented engineer who enjoys working directly with enterprise hardware, solving complex integration challenges, and collaborating with engineering and field deployment teams to deliver reliable, production-ready systems.

An active TS/SCI clearance is required. Candidates must be able to work onsite five days per week in Chantilly, VA.

• Physically rack, stack, mount, and cable high-density Dell Power Edge servers, enterprise storage arrays, and networking appliances within data center racks.
• Perform structured cabling, hardware installation, and physical integration following established data center, power, and thermal management practices.
• Provision enterprise infrastructure by applying baseline firmware, initial configurations, and out-of-band management settings.
• Configure and validate iDRAC, console access, and other hardware management interfaces.
• Support the integration of multi-vendor infrastructure, including Cisco, Arista, Palo Alto, and Dell platforms.

• Configure and validate network infrastructure, including switches, firewalls, routing, VLANs, and connectivity between integrated systems.
• Perform initial provisioning and configuration of enterprise compute, storage, and networking equipment.
• Validate network throughput, segmentation, routing functionality, firewall policies, and end-to-end connectivity.
• Troubleshoot hardware, configuration, and interoperability issues across integrated infrastructure components.
• Work with systems and network architects to resolve technical issues and ensure infrastructure meets deployment requirements.

• Execute comprehensive pre-deployment testing to verify hardware functionality, system readiness, and infrastructure interoperability.
• Perform end-to-end validation of compute, storage, and networking components before equipment is prepared for shipment.
• Identify, isolate, and resolve physical and logical faults across network and infrastructure layers.
• Utilize command-line diagnostics, packet captures, optics validation tools, and other troubleshooting techniques to identify root causes.
• Validate storage availability, RAID configurations, network connectivity, and system functionality.
• Document test results, identify configuration deficiencies, and ensure corrective actions are completed before deployment.
• Identify recurring defects, integration challenges, and deployment bottlenecks to improve overall staging quality.

• Install, configure, bootstrap, and validate baseline Kubernetes environments across bare-metal and virtualized infrastructure.
• Verify container runtime functionality, including containerd, and validate cluster readiness.
• Test container networking, CNI configuration, and connectivity across cluster nodes.
• Validate persistent storage integration and functionality within Kubernetes environments.
• Troubleshoot platform-level issues involving infrastructure, networking, and container services.
• Ensure staged environments meet established requirements before release to field deployment teams.

• Develop, maintain, and…