Cybersecurity Deployment Architect (Presales & Solutions)

Salt; Abu Dhabi Emirate; On-site; AED 480,000 - 680,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt is seeking a Cybersecurity Deployment Architect to design and deliver secure, sovereign platforms for customers in cybersecurity, defence, and national-security sectors. You will be the technical authority from discovery to deployment readiness, translating complex customer requirements into secure designs for product and delivery teams.

You will work across air-gapped, on-premises and customer-controlled environments where resilience, access control and operational security are critical;

Qualifications

• Strong technical presales, solution architecture or deployment architecture experience within a technology vendor, systems integrator or consulting environment.
• Hands-on background delivering enterprise infrastructure into on-premises, private-cloud or customer-controlled environments.
• Proven experience working with cybersecurity, defence, national security, government or other highly regulated / security-sensitive customers.
• Ability to lead customer discovery, understand technical requirements and convert them into clear, commercially viable solution designs.
• Experience running POCs, proofs of value, technical demonstrations and follow-up solution workshops.
• Strong knowledge of Linux systems, enterprise networking, storage and data-centre infrastructure.
• Experience with containerised platforms and infrastructure-as-code; Kubernetes experience is highly desirable.
• Ability to create and defend low-level designs, capacity/sizing models, hardware specifications and bills of materials.
• Strong documentation skills, including deployment runbooks, implementation plans, technical proposals and acceptance test criteria.
• Credibility to bridge sales and delivery teams while engaging confidently with senior technical customer stakeholders.
• A proactive, adaptable mindset and the ability to learn new technologies quickly.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery workshops with customer infrastructure, security and operational teams.
• Translate customer requirements into solution architecture, deployment plans and technical proposals.
• Own the infrastructure and deployment element of proposals, including sizing, hardware requirements, 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.
• Engage with customers across cyber, defence, national security and other security-sensitive sectors.

Skills

Technical presales

Solution architecture

Enterprise infrastructure

Cybersecurity experience

Customer discovery

Proofs of value

Linux systems

Networking

Storage & data-center

Kubernetes

Low-level designs

BOMs & materials

Documentation

Sales-delivery bridge

Fast learner

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Salt is seeking a Cybersecurity Deployment Architect to design and deliver secure, sovereign platforms for customers in cybersecurity, defence, and national-security sectors. You will be the technical authority from discovery to deployment readiness, translating complex customer requirements into secure designs for product and delivery teams.

You will work across air-gapped, on-premises and customer-controlled environments where resilience, access control and operational security are critical;