ASIS is Australia's overseas secret intelligence collection agency. Its mission is to protect and promote Australia's vital interests through the provision of intelligence services as directed by the Australian Government. ASIS employs people in a wide range of roles, including technologists. These roles require dynamic team players who enjoy working with stakeholders, team members and individually on projects. ASIS is looking for people who will be able to meet tight deadlines and work to support ASIS priorities. Successful candidates will have excellent coordination and administration skills, excellent verbal and written communication skills; and, strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills. Relevant tertiary qualifications and demonstrable experience will be highly regarded. ASIS values workplace diversity and is committed to providing a supportive, inclusive and respectful work environment. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people with disabilities, people that identify as LGBTIQ and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. We offer a competitive salary packing, including 22 days annual leave, shutdown between Christmas and New Year's Day, 15.4% employer superannuation contribution, access to flex time (up to Level 6 only) and generous paid maternity/paternity leave. Positions for these roles are based in Canberra and/or Adelaide CBD. Data Engineering Professionals (Level 4-EL2) 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 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 key duties of the position include A Level 4 candidate would be expected to be new to the area and work under the guidance and supervision of a more senior officer. A candidate at the Level 5 level would be expected to have one to two years real-world experience and will be working under some supervision. A Level 6 level candidate would be expected to have more experience and operate with limited supervision within a core group of developers. A candidate at the EL1 level is expected to have substantial experience, and some deep technical expertise. They operate entirely independently and have the capacity to fulfil leadership roles as required. EL2 candidates fulfil principal engineer or section leadership roles. They are expected to have substantial experience and significant deep subject matter expertise in their field of specialisation. Please refer to the Selection Documentation for the job available through our Careers Page for more information.
