Cybersecurity Deployment Architect – Presales & Solutions

Salt; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt is seeking a Deployment Architect for Presales & Solutions to design and deliver secure, sovereign platforms across cybersecurity, defence, and national-security environments. You will translate complex customer needs into practical designs and lead deployment readiness from discovery to value validation.

You will operate across air-gapped and on-prem environments, owning sizing, hardware, storage, network design, and deployment plans, while producing detailed runbooks and BOMs for delivery

Qualifications

• Technical presales or solution consulting experience in a vendor, SI, or consulting environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery workshops with customer infrastructure, security and operational teams.
• Own the infrastructure and deployment element of proposals, including sizing, hardware, storage, network design and implementation approach.
• Run customer POCs and proofs of value, providing ongoing technical guidance through the sales cycle.
• Act as the bridge between customers, sales, product engineering and delivery teams.
• Produce high-quality technical documentation including low-level designs, bills of materials, network plans, runbooks, readiness checklists, RACI matrices and risk registers.
• Support delivery teams through deployment planning, commissioning, acceptance criteria and technical escalation.
• Create reusable reference architectures, standards and deployment playbooks as the delivery capability scales.

Skills

Technical presales

Solution architecture

Deployment architecture

Linux systems

Enterprise networking

Storage

Kubernetes

Containers

Documentation

Stakeholder management

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

VMware

Job description

Salt is seeking a Deployment Architect for Presales & Solutions to design and deliver secure, sovereign platforms across cybersecurity, defence, and national-security environments. You will translate complex customer needs into practical designs and lead deployment readiness from discovery to value validation.

You will operate across air-gapped and on-prem environments, owning sizing, hardware, storage, network design, and deployment plans, while producing detailed runbooks and BOMs for delivery