Forward - Senior Technical Marketing Engineer – Network Automation
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. • The base pay range for this role is between $200,000 and $230,000. Base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Responsibilities
• Partner with Product Management to define, validate, and shape automation-related capabilities and use cases. • Design and evangelize customer workflows that realize the value of automation features, including NQE (Network Query Engine), APIs, and CI/CD-driven verification. • Enhance existing product integrations and build new ones to expand automation and interoperability across the broader network and IT ecosystem. • Build and maintain lab environments to support demos, technical validation, and automation use-case exploration. • Develop high-quality technical collateral for internal audiences, including training materials, demo guides, and sales enablement content. • Collaborate with Marketing to create external-facing assets such as 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, including networking and automation conferences and trade shows. • Contribute thought leadership on network automation trends and Forward's role in modern NetDevOps and intent-based networking architectures. • Gather field and market feedback to influence product roadmap and automation positioning.
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