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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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Various opportunities for Business Continuity Professionals to fill the following roles:

Communication Officer, Business Continuity
The Communication Officer, Business Continuity will work under limited direction and apply their expertise in preparing a wide range of communication products including briefings relevant to the business continuity function. The role involves ensuring accurate, timely and audience-appropriate information is provided for internal and external stakeholders during business-as-usual and periods of disruption.

Engagement Officer, Business Continuity
The Engagement Officer, Business Continuity works under limited direction and establishes, maintains and fosters relationships with external stakeholders and partners in order to achieve shared continuity and resilience goals. The officer plays a key role as a working-level point of contact to promote departmental collaboration and interoperability.

Incident Response Officer, Business Continuity
The Incident Response Officer, Business Continuity works under limited direction to manage and administer the incident response team and support the Service’s emergency management processes. The officer plays a crucial role in ensuring the team is prepared to activate and respond effectively to incidents and to support the Service during periods of disruption.

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.

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.