Australia's security agencies are providing a potential life raft of jobs for sacked public servants in the field of counter terrorism.

Customs and Border Protection is advertising for 100 Border Force recruits - a number of whom will be part of the counter terrorism unit, while the Australian Federal Police is offering jobs in Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne for people who can monitor conversations on tapped phones.

The AFP has vacancies within its telecommunications interception division.

An AFP spokeswoman said the organisation had a number of vacancies within its telecommunications interception division. Job advertisements showed members of the high-tech crime fighting team would be paid $59,103 to $69,005.