Senior Insights Leader: Data-Driven Strategy & Impact

Usyd; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

DiUS is seeking a contract Lead Software Consultant, Cloud & Platform to help shape a core web platform for a major Australian bank. You will be hands-on and strategic, driving architecture and delivery across EKS, networking, security, and CI/CD pipelines while influencing client teams.

You bring deep platform experience, strong coding skills in Python/TypeScript/Go/Java and a proven track record delivering reliable, scalable cloud solutions in AWS.

Qualifications

• Hands-on production experience with AWS EKS and Kubernetes.
• Strong software engineering background with multiple languages.
• Experience building platforms, not just tickets.

Responsibilities

• Shape the platform, architecture decisions across EKS, networking and pipelines.
• Drive ambiguous problems to production outcomes.
• Advise client engineering leads, build their capability.

Skills

Python

TypeScript/Node

Go

Java

AWS EKS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

GitOps/CI/CD

Python scripting

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

GitOps (Argo CD, GitHub Actions)

AWS services (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Aurora)

OpenTelemetry/Datadog

Job description

Lead Software Consultant, Cloud & Platform (contract)

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 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.