Senior Technical Marketing Engineer – Network Automation

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🔥 15 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $200k - $230k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🛜 Network Engineer / Network Administrator

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Forward Networks, Inc.

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2013

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

🔒 Cybersecurity

SaaS • Enterprise • Cybersecurity

Forward Networks, Inc. is a leading provider of network modeling software, offering vendor-agnostic "digital twin" technology to create accurate, mathematically-modeled representations of complex network infrastructures. Their flagship product, Forward Enterprise, enhances network reliability, security, and management by enabling end-to-end visibility and service assurance across cloud and on-premise environments. Noted for its network vulnerability and attack surface management capabilities, it aids in proactive network security and operations. Forward Networks' innovative solutions are recognized by industry analysts such as Gartner, making them a preferred choice for Fortune 50 companies and federal agencies in streamlining network operations and improving security postures.

📋 Description

• Partner with Product Management to define, validate, and shape automation-related capabilities and use cases • Design and evangelize customer workflows using NQE, APIs, and CI/CD-driven verification • Enhance existing product integrations and build new integrations across the network and IT ecosystem • Build and maintain lab environments for demos, technical validation, and automation use-case exploration • Develop technical collateral including training materials, demo guides, and sales enablement content • Collaborate with Marketing on whitepapers, solution briefs, blogs, presentations, and videos • Enable Sales and Solutions teams with automation-focused demos, messaging, and technical training • Represent Forward at customer meetings, webinars, and industry events • Contribute thought leadership on network automation, NetDevOps, and intent-based networking • Gather field and market feedback to influence product roadmap and automation positioning

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as a Technical Marketing Engineer, Sales Engineer, Network Engineer, or similar customer-facing technical role • Strong understanding of enterprise networking concepts, including routing, switching, and network change management • Experience with NetDevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, or infrastructure-as-code workflows applied to networking • Familiarity with source control (Git), API integration, and building automation against network data models • Hands-on experience with network automation tooling and frameworks (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Python, REST APIs, or similar) • Experience working with complex enterprise networks across on-prem, virtualized, and cloud environments • Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform and familiarity with virtualization and containerized environments • Proven ability to build and operate lab environments for demos and technical validation • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Networking, or a related field • Ability to work effectively across Product, Sales, and Marketing teams • Working knowledge of data query and transformation languages (e.g., GraphQL, JSONPath, or a query engine such as Forward's NQE) • Familiarity with AI/ML concepts and hands-on experience exploring AI-driven use cases in network operations or data analysis • Working knowledge of Linux administration • Familiarity with Forward or similar network visibility, verification, or analytics platforms • Experience presenting at conferences, webinars, or customer-facing technical events