• Canberra based role
• An exciting opportunity to workin the intelligence community
• $80,775 - $140,992 (plus superannuation)

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 Government. Its work can involve collecting intelligence in relation to national security, international relations and economic issues. It also contributes to Australia’s coordinated national efforts against terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and transnational issues such as people smuggling.

We are looking for a range of talented and passionate technologists across a range of expertise.

We need engaging people who are interested in delivering and supporting innovative and forward leaning technologies across a range of environments, both domestic and global. This includes researching, analysing, planning, designing, installing, monitoring and maintaining ICT systems to support the business needs of the organisation and individuals.

The ideal candidates will use technology to enhance and continually improve ICT capabilities, have an aptitude for continual learning, and be prepared to work in a fast paced, technically diverse, and challenging environment.

We value life and practical skills/experience just as highly as formal qualifications. The successful candidates will have experience and/or qualifications in fields such as:

Virtualised Networking - VMWare, Microsoft Azure or OpenStack - including NSX DLRs, edge devices, firewalls, and micro segmentation; NSX and/or F5 load balancers; Identity Services Engine ISE; Cisco ACI; SDWAN; NetInsight; Cisco PRIME; vRealise Operations; and IPAM solutions.

Platform and End Client Networking - including Cisco Unified Communications; Jabber; Call Manager; Expressways; V Brick; Enterprise audio video; WAN accelerators; Software defined networking; routing and switching; and proxy services;

Gateway Networking Services - virtual and physical firewalls, and gateway solutions including cyber services; and

Data Centre support - including maintenance of inter/intra data centre enterprise connectivity and encryption hardware; wide area routing protocols such as BGP and OSPF; environmental oversight and monitoring; and multi-vendor liaison and management.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Providing operational support and improvements to Datacentres and systems, metro, campus, branch, and end device connectivity;
• Providing improvement to implemented solutions and products, specifically in relation to software defined environments, such as:
  • Virtual Datacentre implementations covering technology such as NetInsight, NSX N/T, Cisco PRIME, ISE and Cisco ACI; and
  • Environment patching, firmware, software improvements, capacity consumption and planning, and environment trending.
• Contributing to compliance, including risk management and mitigation;
• Undertaking installation work, both in Australia and Overseas;
• Providing afterhours support to users as part of On-call arrangements;
• Managing, contributing, and reporting for key internal and external stakeholders and assisting in formal reporting as required;
• Responsibility for the delivery of work that is complex in nature within virtualised environments in line with agreed outcomes;
• Ability to operate independently and/or with minimal direction as required; and
• Team responsibilities which may include: supervising and guiding team members; transferring knowledge to peers and management; assisting in strategic planning; identifying tasks and priorities; managing workflows; and assisting with building team capability through coaching, development of processes and procedures, and technology leadership.

These positions are based in Canberra and may be offered on an ongoing basis.

Citizenship: To be eligible for engagement, applicants must be Australian citizens.

Security Assessment: The successful applicant will be required to undergo a Security Clearance.

Please Note:  ASIS does not provide feedback to unsuccessful applicants.

Applications close Monday, 10 September 2019.