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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.
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The Assistant Director is responsible for leading ASIS’s Cabinet and Ministerial teams. They ensure the seamless coordination and delivery of related material to ASIS leadership and the Minister for Foreign Affairs. This role provides critical quality assurance over all Ministerial, Cabinet and Parliamentary outputs, ensuring they are aligned with the Director-General’s priorities and requirements. The Assistant Director provides leadership and mentorship to the team while managing complex stakeholder relationships to represent ASIS’s equities at the highest levels of government.

ASIS is looking for motivated individuals to apply their expertise in the following roles:

Ministerial Officer
Ministerial Officers serve as strategic enablers, supporting both the Director-General and SES in driving ASIS’s mission and national security objectives. Ministerial Officers facilitate seamless interaction between different business units, senior leaders, and the Foreign Minister’s Office, to coordinate decision making on the most important issues facing ASIS.

Governance Officer
Governance Officers provide high-level secretariat and governance support to senior management and key governance committees within ASIS. These positions play a critical role in supporting the effective functioning of executive committees, contributing to the Service’s strategic direction and corporate governance frameworks.

Cabinet Liaison Officer
Cabinet Liaison Officers support ASIS’s engagement with whole-of-government Cabinet processes. Cabinet is the core decision-making body of the Australian Government, comprised of senior ministers who collectively determine government policy and priorities. Cabinet Liaison Officers ensure the Service is effectively supporting ASIS leadership and the Minister for Foreign Affairs in Cabinet-related matters.

Roles in the Recruitment Section plan and conduct the full life cycle of recruitment activities for ASIS including contributing to the development of marketing and branding strategies. Refining selection methodologies and developing a positive candidate experience throughout a selection and onboarding continuum is a high priority for this team.

These roles require dynamic team players who enjoys working with stakeholders, team members and individually on projects. You will be able to meet tight deadlines and work to support ASIS priorities.

The ASIS First Assistant Director-General Operations, is responsible for the conduct of effective operations across a Headquarters-based Division. It is a high-level and high profile strategic position that contributes significantly to the management and leadership of ASIS.

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.

An ASIS Operational Technology Officer (OTO) conducts technical intelligence operations in support of the Australian Government intelligence mission. An OTO takes a 'hands-on', professional approach to technical work that is underpinned by relevant academic or work experience.

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.

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 technologies are Python, Scala, Java, TypeScript, and JavaScript. Our stack includes Spring, Vue, PyTorch, Tensorflow, Apache Spark, Accumulo, Hadoop, NiFi, Solr, Ansible and Git. We leverage structured and unstructured data, including geospatial and multilingual datasets. 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.

Software Engineers at Level 4 to EL1
Data Engineers at Level 6 to EL1
Data Technicians at Level 4 to Level 6 (Adelaide only)
System Engineers at Level 4 to EL1
DevOps Engineers at Level 4 to EL1
Data Centre Facilities Manager at EL1 to EL2 (Canberra only)

ASIS is seeking dynamic team players to join our technical community in ICT Software Delivery leadership roles (EL1). Whether your expertise lies in Software Development Management, Project Management, or as an Agile Scrum Master/Product Owner, we are looking for individuals who enjoy collaborating with stakeholders to deliver high-value ICT solutions.

We are seeking a versatile and proactive Capability Manager to act as the primary bridge between operational requirements and technical delivery. The Capability Manager serves in a Product Owner style role, representing end users of a portfolio of operational communication capabilities. You will be responsible for ensuring that capabilities provided to users are fit-for-purpose, sustainable, and aligned with the strategic mission.

Join us as a Cyber Security Operations Analyst and play a pivotal role in safeguarding ASIS's ICT environment. In this dynamic position, you will monitor, detect, and respond to malicious cyber activity, working to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our systems and sensitive data.

Join us as a Cyber Security Operations Technical Lead and play a pivotal role in safeguarding ASIS's global ICT environment. In this senior position, you will lead cyber incident response activities and technical investigations, driving efforts to quickly identify, contain, and eradicate threats to ASIS.

We are seeking a versatile and technical Product Management Specialist to bridge the gap between product requirements and technical delivery. This role is designed for a professional who can engage with customers, elicit product requirements and translate these into a high-quality technical solution. The Capability Specialist will support with the design, development and deployment of fit for purpose technical solutions, and oversee long-term portfolio sustainment in complex, global environments.