Senior Cloud Backend Engineer — Azure & Kubernetes

GEA Systems North America; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

GEA Farm Technologies in Belfast is seeking a Senior Cloud Backend Engineer to design and operate the cloud platform behind our digital farm-management solutions. You will join an experienced team, collaborate across disciplines, and contribute to a sustainable future in the dairy industry.

The role requires hands-on Spring Boot development, Azure and Terraform for infrastructure, and experience with Docker/Kubernetes. You will work in a hybrid setup based in Belfast and mentor fellow engineers.

Qualifications

• Degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.
• Production backend experience with Spring Boot, in Kubernetes preferred.
• Hands-on Azure experience and infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Experience deploying cloud-native apps with Docker; familiar with Kubernetes and Helm.
• Design secure, reliable REST APIs for a cloud platform.
• Good PostgreSQL knowledge and query performance understanding.
• Experience with asynchronous messaging (e.g., Azure Service Bus).
• Strong ownership, mentoring, and cross-team communication in English.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across teams on architecture, system design and direction.
• Build integrations and asynchronous workflows using cloud services.
• Provision and evolve Azure infrastructure with Terraform and support CI/CD.
• Champion security, reliability, performance, and automated testing.
• Contribute to code quality and engineering best practices.
• Mentor other engineers and provide technical guidance.

Skills

Spring Boot

Kubernetes

Azure

REST APIs

Java

CI/CD

Security

Cloud architecture

Mentoring

English fluent

Education

Computer science degree

Tools

Terraform

Docker

PostgreSQL

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Helm

Nexus

Redis

Job description

GEA Farm Technologies in Belfast is seeking a Senior Cloud Backend Engineer to design and operate the cloud platform behind our digital farm-management solutions. You will join an experienced team, collaborate across disciplines, and contribute to a sustainable future in the dairy industry.

The role requires hands-on Spring Boot development, Azure and Terraform for infrastructure, and experience with Docker/Kubernetes. You will work in a hybrid setup based in Belfast and mentor fellow engineers.