Current Vacancies

ASIS is seeking expressions of interest from highly motivated current and ongoing Commonwealth Public Servants who are looking for new career opportunities. This is open for people to register their interest for a wide variety of roles across the Service. You must be a current Commonwealth Public Servant to register.
Please note there is no 'job description' to download for this talent register. Please refer to the ILS at www.apsc.gov.au when preparing your extended response.

Psychologists in this role provide support to the organisation through their expert assessment skills, clinical advice on recruitment and suitability decisions, support to training and advice to management on a range of staffing matters. This is a varied and fulfilling role with a good balance of direct and indirect client work as well as a mix of team-based tasks and opportunities for independent projects in areas of interest.

You will leverage your scientific and professional best practices, adhering to government and legislative requirements. This role is ideal for highly responsive practitioners who possess exceptional judgment, thrive on adapting to new challenges, and excel in complex scenarios. You will enjoy exercising your technical, communication and interpersonal skills to conceptualise understanding and deliver innovative solutions to intricate applied problems.

An ASIS Intelligence Officer plans, develops and manages intelligence operations in accordance with relevant legislation and Australian government requirements. You will use your exceptional interpersonal and relationship skills, high-level training and sound judgement to collect intelligence from overseas.

As an Operations Enabling Officer, you will work overseas as an individual or as part of a team to provide specialised support to enable ASIS operations across a spectrum of overseas’ environments. Operations Enabling Officers play a crucial role in the management of operational and enterprise risk and will bring their previous experiences and skillsets to directly support ASIS operational planning and the execution of operations.

As a specialist linguist working in a multi-disciplinary team, your primary role would be the translation of a range of intelligence material from a foreign language.

As a specialist linguist working in a multi-disciplinary team, your primary role would be the translation of a range of intelligence material from a foreign language.

We are seeking Technologists/ Engineers for the below roles who possess the technical background, skills and experience to lead the remediation/development and delivery of a range of specialist Secure Mobile, Gateway and/or CDS solutions servicing a variety of operational and corporate technology areas in a
fast-paced and complex global environment.

Senior Technologist/Engineer – Mobile, Gateway and CDS Solutions (EL1): This is a crucial role providing essential services to ASIS while working within highly experienced teams. As a subject matter expert, you will lead the team, provide advice to senior management and engage with internal and external stakeholders in the delivery of next generation technologies. This role will include the opportunity for domestic and overseas travel.

Technologists/Engineers – Mobile, Gateway and CDS Solutions (Level 6): As the Technologist/Engineer you will support the development and delivery for mission critical capabilities within a team environment. Your willingness to learn will be supported with training and mentorship to further develop and grow your skills to achieve you career aspirations.

Please refer to the Candidate Information pack for further information.

Are you keen to design and develop world-class capabilities, turning data into knowledge and operational outcomes? Are you passionate about building solutions to allow data to tell its story? ASIS offers an opportunity to achieve these goals in an uncompromisingly unique environment. As a Data Professional in ASIS, you will have the chance to actively enable our operational teams to make the best use of ASIS’s unique data assets.

Positions are based in Canberra or Adelaide.

Adelaide positions are based in the CBD.

ASIS leverages the wide world of open-source software and supplements it with our own development to deliver the bespoke tools required for the ASIS mission. Among our core languages are Python, Scala, Java, C++, Rust and JavaScript. Our toolset includes Spring, PyTorch, Tensorflow, Apache Spark, Apache Accumulo, Apache Hadoop, Apache NiFi, Apache Solr, Ansible and Git. We leverage structured and unstructured data, including geospatial and multilingual data sets of varying quality. Ideal candidates will be extraordinarily innovative, self-motivated and keen to use these toolsets to craft new systems that are simply not found in any other organisation.

If this sounds like an environment you could thrive in, then apply for one of these unique positions.

We have a number of positions available including:

Data Scientists at Level 4 to EL1; and
MLOps Engineers at Level 5 to EL1
Machine Learning Scientists at Level 4 to EL1; and
Applied Mathematicians at Level 5 to EL1

Are you keen to design and develop world-class capabilities, turning data into knowledge and operational outcomes? Are you passionate about building solutions to allow data to tell its story? ASIS offers an opportunity to achieve these goals in an uncompromisingly unique environment. As a Data Professional in ASIS, you will have the chance to actively enable our operational teams to make the best use of ASIS’s unique data assets.

Positions are based in Canberra or Adelaide.

Adelaide positions are based in the CBD.

ASIS leverages the wide world of open source software and supplements it with our own development to deliver the bespoke tools required for the ASIS mission. Among our core languages are Python, Scala, Java, C++, Rust and JavaScript. Our toolset includes Spring, PyTorch, Tensorflow, Apache Spark, Apache Accumulo, Apache Hadoop, Apache NiFi, Apache Solr, Ansible and Git. We leverage structured and unstructured data, including geospatial and multilingual data sets of varying quality. Ideal candidates will be extraordinarily innovative, self-motivated and keen to use these toolsets to craft new systems that are simply not found in any other organisation.

If this sounds like an environment you could thrive in, then apply for one of these unique positions.

We have a number of positions available including:

Site Reliability Engineers at Level 5 to EL2;
Software Engineers at Level 4 to EL1;
Data Specialists at Level 4 to Level 6

The Applications Tester plays a crucial role in the quality assurance and testing of software applications. This role involves ensuring that software applications meet high-quality standards, are free of defects, and function effectively, which is essential for the successful delivery of essential services and programs. The applications tester works closely with development teams, SCRUM teams, Product owners and stakeholders to identify ad rectify issues and improve the overall user expierence.

ASIS is looking for firmware engineers with varying levels of experience who are driven and motivated by our unique problemset. These roles require dynamic team players who enjoy working with a diverse range of stakeholders and delivery teams as well as individually on a range of operational technology products

An Operational Technology Capability Specialist is responsible for leading and being part of a team for the management, maintenance and sustainment of ASIS’s operational technology systems. These include but not limited to Communication systems, Technical Surveillance, Collection systems and Signal Exploitation capabilities and tactical support for operational taskings.