Job Description
Title : Lead Software Consultant, Cloud & Platform (contract)
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Contract Details: Immediate start until end of March (with the likelihood of extending). Fixed term contract or independent services agreement (ABN/ACN).
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Location: This is a hybrid-based role in Sydney or Melbourne. You must have current working rights in Australia.
About DiUS n
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 new products to market.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Drive outcomes:
take ambiguous problems, frame them, agree a way forward and see it through to production
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Advise and influence: work alongside the client's engineering leads and product teams, challenging assumptions, recommending better practice and building their capability
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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
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Engineer the platform like software: write automation and tooling in Python, TypeScript or Bash that gives developers an easy, standard path to production
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Own reliability: observability, incident response, and security with IAM Roles for Service Accounts or Pod Identity, and RBAC
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What you’ll bring nn
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A software engineering background: you’ve built and shipped services in Python, Bash, TypeScript/Node, Go, Java or similar
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Strong, recent hands-on experience with AWS EKS and Kubernetes in production
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Solid Kubernetes, Helm, GitOps/CI/CD and Terraform (or CloudFormation) skills
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Experience building on AWS services such as Lambda, S3, DynamoDB and Aurora
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Observability tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or Datadog
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Experience with AWS IAM & Security: IAM Roles for Service Accounts/Pod Identity, RBAC
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Experience influencing architecture and technical direction, whether as a consultant, tech lead or senior engineer
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Confidence with stakeholders: you can run a workshop, write a explicit recommendation, and hold your ground with a well-reasoned argument
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Consulting or client-facing delivery experience
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CKA / CKAD or AWS Professional certifications
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Experience in financial services or other regulated environments
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📌 Lead Software Consultant, Cloud & Platform (contract) (Sydney)
🏢 DiUS
📍 Sydney