Categories of employment
Specialist/professional
employment
ASIO has specialist positions covering a range of disciplines.
These include:
Staff in these areas usually require specific skills/qualifications and
relevant work experience. The positions are advertised on an 'as required'
basis.
Administrative staff
Administrative staff work in areas such as Finance, Personnel, Information
Management, Recruitment or Staff Development. They are involved in the
development of new policies, the training of other staff or administrative
work such as the processing of entitlements in the personnel or finance
areas. Salaries in the administrative stream range from around $36,773
to $74,717 depending on the level of the positions, qualifications and
experience required. Details are provided in the relevant advertisements.
Technical staff
Technical staff work in areas such as the preparation, installation
and maintenance of electronic or telecommunications equipment, the construction
and testing of electronics equipment and/or the design of electronics
equipment. Salaries in the technical stream range from around $50,764
to $107,243 depending on the level of the position, qualifications and
experience required.
Engineering staff
Engineering staff are involved in the design and development of advanced
telecommunications, computer or electronics equipment which is employed to collect
intelligence. Advanced design, development and project management skills and experience in
one or more of the following disciplines are required:
- micro-electronics
- radio frequency
- telecommunications
- information technology
- electronics manufacture
ASIO also employs engineers in its protective security area where they
undertake testing and evaluation of protective security equipment, development of
Commonwealth protective security standards and policy and provide risk management and
protective security consultancy services to clients. The full range of engineering skills
may be drawn on for this work.
Salaries in the engineering stream range from around
$50,764 to $108,946 depending on the level of the position, qualifications
and experience required.
Information technology staff
Information technology staff are divided into four basic work
groups. Staff are generally recruited directly into one of these groups, though some
internal transfers do occur to suit personal and/or organisational needs. The groups are
as follows:
- The computer applications group develops and maintains in-house applications. It
also assists with the specification and installation of vendor supplied applications as
well as providing first line maintenance for these products.
- The computer systems group installs and maintains the midrange and other servers, as
well as the peripheral equipment associated with these - like disk and tape drives etc.
This group also looks after the system software and layered products as well as the
desktop/client equipment though much of this effort beyond first line maintenance has been
diverted to the vendor from which that equipment is now leased.
- The network management services group designs and maintains the data communication
equipment and services used within Australia. Some components of this work, in
particular the wiring, are outsourced but with local oversighting of standards.
- The systems education and training group's primary role is to operate the Help Desk,
with the design and delivery of IT training as a secondary role and limited mainly to
in-house developed and layered software. Training in commercial application packages is
usually outsourced to the relevant vendor. This group operates with a mixture of IT and
non IT staff.
Staff required to work in the IT security domain are hand picked from the four groups
as required.
Salaries in the IT field range from around
$50,764 to $107,243 depending on the level of the position, qualifications
and experience required.
Professional and trade
staff
ASIO employs staff in a wide range of professional
and trade activities including:
- legal advisers
- psychologists
- librarians
- editors
- auditors
- accountants
- statisticians
- printers
- electricians
Salary will be dependent on qualifications and experience.