Senior Pre Sales Cybersecurity Engineer

About the role

Key responsibilities

• Qualify opportunities and discover customer business, security, and technical requirements.
• Conduct discovery sessions, meetings, workshops, presentations, and demonstrations.
• Design cybersecurity solutions across SIEM/SOC, XDR/EDR, SOAR, network security, IAM/PAM, DLP, cloud security, and other enterprise security domains.
• Prepare HLDs, architectures, technical proposals, BoMs, sizing, and scopes of work.
• Lead RFP, RFQ, and tender technical responses, including analysis, compliance, solution design, documentation, and clarifications.
• Coordinate PoCs from planning and deployment through testing, evaluation, and reporting.
• Validate designs, sizing, licensing, pricing, and technical compliance with vendors and distributors; compare competing technologies.
• Support commercial pricing and project scope, and hand awarded projects to delivery teams with complete documentation.
• Maintain customer, vendor, distributor, and partner relationships and keep current with technologies, threats, trends, and vendor roadmaps.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, Information Technology, Networking, or a related discipline.
• Relevant cybersecurity experience in Saudi Arabia; the role overview says minimum 10 years, while qualifications say minimum 6 years.
• Experience in pre-sales, solution engineering, solution architecture, or security consulting is strongly preferred.
• Strong cybersecurity-domain and enterprise-architecture knowledge, including solution design, sizing, licensing, and BoM preparation.
• Experience with technical RFPs, RFQs, tenders, enterprise proposals, customer presentations, and vendor coordination.
• Understanding of enterprise IT infrastructure, networking, cloud environments, and security architecture.
• Experience serving Saudi government, semi-government, financial, telecom, or large-enterprise customers is highly preferred.

Saudi market and technical skills

• Knowledge of Saudi cybersecurity requirements, including NCA ECC, NCA CCC, SAMA Cybersecurity Framework, Saudi PDPL, ISO/IEC 27001, and sector-specific requirements.
• Experience with technologies from vendors such as Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Cisco, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Splunk, IBM, Trend Micro, Check Point, CyberArk, BeyondTrust, Proofpoint, Forcepoint, F5, Imperva, Tenable, or Rapid7 is desirable; equivalents are accepted.
• Arabic fluency is required; strong English is requested.
• Key skills include solution consulting, technical and commercial positioning, customer requirements analysis, competitive analysis, stakeholder management, negotiation, and communication.

Work location

• Work location is in person.

Application questions

• Applicants are asked about Saudi cybersecurity pre-sales experience, project wins and contributions, and readiness to start immediately.