Title: Lead Software Consultant, Cloud & Platform (contract)

Contract Details: Immediate start until end of March (with the likelihood of extending). Fixed term contract or independent services agreement (ABN/ACN).

Location: This is a hybrid-based role in Sydney or Melbourne. You must have current working rights in Australia.

About DiUS

DiUS is an Australian B2B technology services company with an excellent reputation as a trusted consulting partner. We’re a go-to company for helping organisations of all sizes tackle hard engineering problems, improve delivery practices, modernise applications, and deliver or scale current products to market.

Whether we are building a product using AI or building an AI experience, we work on problems our clients aren’t able to solve themselves, drawing on our deep range of capabilities: software engineering, experience design, data and analytics, machine learning and AI.

About the role

DiUS is looking for a contract software engineer with deep platform and DevOps experience who wants to shape how things are built, not just take tickets.

You'll join one of our enterprise clients as a trusted technical advisor, helping to build out the infrastructure underpinning a core web platform for one of the largest banks in Australia. You'll help drive architectural decisions for their AWS EKS platform, influence engineering teams and stakeholders, and stay hands-on to deliver what you recommend. Our client wants people who bring a point of view, lift the team around them, and drive outcomes.

What you'll do

- Shape the platform: help make key architecture and design decisions across EKS, networking, security and delivery pipelines, and explain the trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Drive outcomes: take ambiguous problems, frame them, agree a way forward and see it through to production




- Advise and influence: work alongside the client's engineering leads and product teams, challenging assumptions, recommending better practice and building their capability
- Stay hands-on: build and run production EKS (Karpenter, add-ons, upgrades), write Helm charts, set up GitOps with Argo CD and GitHub Actions, and manage Terraform
- Engineer the platform like software: write automation and tooling in Python, TypeScript or Bash that gives developers an easy, standard path to production
- Own reliability: observability, incident response, and security with IAM Roles for Service Accounts or Pod Identity, and RBAC

What you'll bring

- A software engineering background: you've built and shipped services in Python, Bash, TypeScript/Node, Go, Java or similar
- Strong, recent hands-on experience with AWS EKS and Kubernetes in production
- Solid Kubernetes, Helm, GitOps/CI/CD and Terraform (or CloudFormation) skills
- Experience building on AWS services such as Lambda, S3, DynamoDB and Aurora
- Observability tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or Datadog
- Experience with AWS IAM & Security: IAM Roles for Service Accounts/Pod Identity, RBAC
- Experience influencing architecture and technical direction, whether as a consultant, tech lead or senior engineer
- Confidence with stakeholders: you can run a workshop, write a clear recommendation, and hold your ground with a well-reasoned argument

Nice to have

- Consulting or client-facing delivery experience
- CKA / CKAD or AWS Professional certifications
- Experience in financial services or other regulated environments

Ready to apply? This is a contract role. You'll need current working rights in Australia and be able to work on either a fixed-term contract or an independent services agreement (ABN/ACN). If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.

📌 Lead Software Consultant, Cloud & Platform (contract) (Melbourne)
🏢 DiUS
📍 Melbourne