Principal Security Consultant Risk And Resillience

Job Description Due to the continuing success and growth of our AESG team, a fantastic opportunity has opened up at our award-winning Specialist Consultancy, Engineering and Advisory Firm.

We are headquartered in London, Riyadh, Singapore and Dubai, Cape Town, Cairo & Sydney working throughout the Middle East, Europe and Asia. Our areas of expertise are represented in four core verticals: Building Engineering, Planning and Infrastructure, Strategy and Advisory and Commissioning, Handover and Asset Management.

We pride ourselves in being leaders in the industry in each of the services that we offer. We have one of the largest dedicated team with decades of cumulative experience in sustainable design, fire and life safety, cost management, façade engineering, commissioning, building performance, waste management, environmental consultancy, carbon management and acoustics.

Job Purpose

• Senior technical and client-facing role based at AESG’s Dubai headquarters, leading security risk, resilience, threat and vulnerability assessment, security strategy and built environment security consultancy services across the UAE, KSA and wider international markets.
• Translate complex security risks into clear, proportionate and practical mitigation strategies for clients, designers, operators and project stakeholders.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in security, risk management, resilience, engineering, architecture, built environment, criminology, emergency management, safety, security management or a related discipline.
• Professional membership, or progression towards membership, of a recognised body such as the Security Institute, ASIS International, Register of Security Engineers and Specialists, Institute of Strategic Risk Management, Business Continuity Institute or Institution of Civil Engineers.
• Desirable certifications include CSyP, CPP, PSP, CBCI, CMIRM, ISO 31000, ISO 22301, CPTED, SABRE, HCIS, SIRA or equivalent credentials.
• Minimum 10+ years’ relevant professional experience in security risk consulting, resilience advisory, protective security, built environment security, critical infrastructure security or security management.
• Microsoft Project or equivalent project planning tools.
• Bluebeam Revu and Adobe Acrobat for design review, mark-up and document coordination.
• AutoCAD, Revit, Navisworks, Autodesk Construction Cloud / BIM 360 or equivalent platforms for multidisciplinary design review and coordination.
• Google Earth, GIS mapping tools, risk registers, matrix-based risk assessment models and comparative risk assessment tools.
• CRM, proposal, project management and workflow platforms as required by AESG and project-specific delivery processes.

Skills / Expertise Critical To Business Objectives

• Security threat, vulnerability and risk assessment; resilience advisory; risk appetite, residual risk and risk treatment planning.
• Built environment security strategy, security masterplanning, Operational Requirements, protective security design integration and critical asset protection.
• Public realm and hostile vehicle mitigation advisory, security zoning, access strategy, screening strategy and operational security planning.
• Stakeholder engagement, workshop facilitation, technical report writing, proposal support, client relationship management and mentoring.

Role And Responsibilities

• Lead security threat, vulnerability and risk assessments for built environment, infrastructure and critical asset projects.
• Analyse credible threat information from client intelligence, stakeholder interviews, site observations, open-source research and regional security advisories.
• Assess asset criticality, single points of failure, operational dependencies, business impacts, resilience requirements and residual risk.
• Prepare security strategies, security masterplans, security needs assessments, operational requirements, risk treatm