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Forward NetworksForward NetworksWashington, DC

Senior Customer Care Engineer (Technical Support) - Federal TS SCI w/ FSP

Serves as trusted technical advisor for Federal customers, troubleshooting complex network issues, performing root cause analysis, and driving resolutions with engineering. Requires TS/SCI with FSP, strong networking fundamentals, and customer-facing skills.

200k – 230k
RemoteSupport Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary technical interface for assigned Federal customers
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues across networking, infrastructure, data collection, modeling, and analytics workflows
  • Perform deep technical triage and root cause analysis for customer-reported issues
  • Recreate customer environments and scenarios to identify software defects and validate fixes
  • Work directly with Engineering and Product Management to drive bug resolution, feature enhancements, and customer success outcomes
  • Analyze network configurations, routing behavior, security posture, and infrastructure telemetry
  • Support onboarding, deployment validation, upgrades, and operational health checks
  • Leverage APIs, scripting, and automation to improve customer workflows and operational efficiency
  • Assist customers with advanced use cases including network verification, path analysis, outage prevention, vulnerability and exposure analysis, configuration compliance, intent validation, security posture analysis, operational troubleshooting
  • Develop and maintain technical documentation, knowledge transfer materials, and operational guidance
  • Participate in after-hours escalation support as required for mission-critical customer environments
  • Support classified customer engagements and on-site activities when necessary

Requirements

Required Qualifications:

  • Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph (FSP)
  • Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
  • Experience supporting production enterprise or service provider environments
  • Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to both engineers and executive stakeholders
  • Strong customer-facing communication and professionalism
  • Ability to work independently in fast-paced operational environments
  • Understanding of networking fundamentals, including: TCP/IP, Routing and Switching, VLANs, BGP, OSPF, ACLs, NAT, DNS, network segmentation

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience supporting Federal or classified customer environments
  • Familiarity with Linux administration and troubleshooting
  • Python, Bash, or other scripting experience
  • API integration and automation experience
  • Experience with network security technologies and operations
  • Familiarity with large-scale vendor environments, including: Cisco, Juniper Networks, Arista Networks, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet
  • Exposure to cloud networking and hybrid infrastructure environments
  • Experience with automation, telemetry, SNMP, REST APIs, or infrastructure-as-code concepts
  • Understanding of cybersecurity frameworks, compliance validation, or vulnerability management workflows

Up to 20% travel within a 2-hour radius of Washington DC required. Ability to participate in after-hours on-call rotation.

Compensation

Starting base salary + bonus expected to be between $200,000/yr and $230,000/yr. May also include stock.

Skills

TCP/IPBGPOspfRouting And SwitchingVlansAclsNatDNSLinuxPythonBashREST APIsSnmpCiscoJuniper Networks
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