Senior Cloud Backend Engineer - Azure/Kubernetes (Hybrid)

Gea Group; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

GEA Farm Technologies in Belfast is seeking a Senior Cloud Backend Engineer to help build and operate the cloud platform behind our digital farm-management solutions. You will join an experienced development team at our Belfast location and collaborate across disciplines and locations to deliver scalable, secure services.

The role requires hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, Azure, Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes, plus a focus on reliability, automated testing and CI/CD.

Qualifications

• Degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong production backend experience with Spring Boot in a Kubernetes environment.
• Hands-on with Microsoft Azure and infrastructure as code using Terraform.
• Experience deploying cloud-native apps with Docker; familiar with Kubernetes and Helm.
• Design secure, reliable backend services and REST APIs for cloud platforms.
• Experience with PostgreSQL and understanding of query performance.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across teams on architecture, system design and technical direction to ensure a cohesive software landscape.
• Build integrations and asynchronous workflows using cloud messaging and data services.
• Provision and evolve Azure infrastructure using Terraform, and contribute to CI/CD and production operations.
• Champion security, reliability, performance, maintainability and automated testing.
• Apply high standards of code quality and effective engineering practices.
• Support other engineers through technical guidance, code reviews and mentoring.

Skills

Java / Spring Boot

Cloud architecture

REST APIs

Security and testing

Team mentoring

English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Nexus

SonarQube

Job description

GEA Farm Technologies in Belfast is seeking a Senior Cloud Backend Engineer to help build and operate the cloud platform behind our digital farm-management solutions. You will join an experienced development team at our Belfast location and collaborate across disciplines and locations to deliver scalable, secure services.

The role requires hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, Azure, Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes, plus a focus on reliability, automated testing and CI/CD.