Defence bigwigs get IT minder

The Department of Defence has put out a call for an IT professional to provide support to Defence's top dogs.

The "customer engagement officer" will make sure that VIPs and those in the Defence Senior Leadership Group don't face problems or outages, instead receiving "consistent high quality service" 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

For their efforts managing the IT support to Defence's royalty, the successful applicant will be rewarded with a salary of around $70,000.

The role was "critical to improving the customer experience", according to the advertisement, something which important Defence personnel might have felt was necessary after an IT outage in March, reported by the Australian IT, which ended in senior Canberra-based officials being unable to start their computers.

The incident was reportedly caused by Defence executives not logging off at the end of the day to allow night-time maintenance. The Australian IT reported that it had prompted a restriction of IT maintenance during parliament sitting days.