Lead Software Consultant, Cloud & Platform

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 new 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 stakeholdersDrive outcomes: take ambiguous problems, frame them, agree a way forward and see it through to productionAdvise and influence: work alongside the client's engineering leads and product teams, challenging assumptions, recommending better practice and building their capabilityStay 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 TerraformEngineer the platform like software: write automation and tooling in Python, TypeScript or Bash that gives developers an easy, standard path to productionOwn 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 similarStrong, recent hands-on experience with AWS EKS and Kubernetes in productionSolid Kubernetes, Helm, GitOps/CI/CD and Terraform (or CloudFormation) skillsExperience building on AWS services such as Lambda, S3, DynamoDB and AuroraObservability tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or DatadogExperience with AWS IAM & Security: IAM Roles for Service Accounts/Pod Identity, RBACExperience influencing architecture and technical direction, whether as a consultant, tech lead or senior engineerConfidence 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 experienceCKA / CKAD or AWS Professional certificationsExperience 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.