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.

As a Payroll Administration Officer within ASIS you can expect to work within a dedicated team that has a clear sense of purpose and an understanding of how you can individually contribute to the security of our nation and fellow Australians. We are seeking to engage skilled and enthusiastic professionals to fill roles within the ASIS Payroll Administration team. We believe this is an opportunity for not only experienced payroll officers but also welcome applications from those seeking entry into the HR support space or from those experienced administrators looking to specialise within the HR field.

The Lead System Administrator specialising in Cybersecurity plays a crucial role in engineering and maintaining our robust ICT infrastructure. In this hands-on leadership position, the Lead System Administrator will design, architect, and implement secure and scalable cybersecurity solutions tailored to our organisation's needs. The Lead System Administrator - Cyber will apply their deep technical expertise to drive the administration and optimization of cutting-edge cybersecurity tools, ensuring our systems remain secure, resilient, and operationally efficient. They will lead the configuration, monitoring, and maintenance of security solutions to protect sensitive data and mitigate risks. Furthermore, they will share their expertise in mentoring and coaching junior team members whilst collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive capability engineering initiatives, system upgrades, testing, and maintenance efforts.

The System Administrator specialising in Cybersecurity plays a pivotal role in safeguarding our complex ICT infrastructure. In this dynamic position, the System Administrator - Cyber will be involved in the administration and optimisation of cutting-edge cybersecurity tools, ensuring our systems remain secure and resilient. From configuring and monitoring security solutions to diagnosing and resolving technical issues, their work will directly impact our ability to protect sensitive data and maintain operational integrity. This role offers a unique blend of technical challenges and collaborative opportunities with internal teams and stakeholders to drive upgrades, testing, and maintenance initiatives forward. As a key member of our team, the System Administrator will also have the opportunity to mentor and coach junior team members, sharing their expertise in best practices and contributing to their professional growth.

The Operations Analyst Development Program is an entry-level pathway for university graduates seeking a career in secret intelligence at ASIS.
Upon completion of customised training, you'll rotate through multiple teams to apply and build your analytical skills with specialist assistance and guidance. In this role you will be responsible for supporting ASIS operations and Intelligence Officers in the field. You will support operational activities in a range of ways which may include leads generation; risk analysis; the production of finished intelligence reporting; legal and compliance oversight; critical administrative support; broad customer engagement, and so much more.

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.

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

ASIS are seeking Server, Network and Systems Engineers along with Infrastructure specialists with the requisite skills and experience who are excited about applying their skills across a variety of corporate and operational technology areas in a fast-paced and complex global environment. In these roles you will develop, enhance and sustain critical software and hardware infrastructure in secure cloud, internet and data communications environments.