Senior Technical Marketing Engineer – Network Automation
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ForwardNetwork Automation
Remote USAFull-TimeSenior
Salary200,000 - 230,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years of experience as a Technical Marketing Engineer, Sales Engineer, Network Engineer, or similar customer-facing technical role.
- Required Skills
- PythonGitCI/CDRESTful APIsTerraformAnsible
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.
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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