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.