Senior Cloud Backend Engineer - Hybrid (Belfast)

GEA Germany GmbH; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

GEA Farm Technologies, based in Belfast, is seeking a Senior Cloud Backend Engineer to help build and operate the cloud platform behind digital farm-management solutions. You will join an experienced team in Belfast and work across disciplines and locations.

You will design secure, scalable backend services with Spring Boot, deploy on Azure, and contribute to CI/CD, testing, and mentoring of engineers. A hybrid work arrangement is required, with travel as needed.

Qualifications

• Experience building production backend services with Spring Boot.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on Azure and Terraform experience.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and Helm.
• Proficient in PostgreSQL performance and schemas.
• Worked with asynchronous messaging (Azure Service Bus or Event Hubs).
• Knowledge of OAuth2, JWT, identity management and secret management.
• Senior-level approach to system design, reliability and automated testing.
• Good English and willingness to travel internationally.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across teams on architecture, system design and technical direction.
• Build integrations and asynchronous workflows using cloud messaging and data services.
• Provision and evolve Azure infrastructure using Terraform.
• Contribute to CI/CD and production operations.
• Champion security, reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Promote automated testing and high code quality.
• Provide technical guidance, code reviews and mentoring to peers.

Skills

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Cloud architecture

Security and identity management

OAuth2 / JWT

Asynchronous messaging

Mentoring / code reviews

English communication

Travel willingness

Education

Degree in Computer Science or equivalent training

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Nexus

SonarQube

Terraform

Azure

PostgreSQL

Job description

GEA Farm Technologies, based in Belfast, is seeking a Senior Cloud Backend Engineer to help build and operate the cloud platform behind digital farm-management solutions. You will join an experienced team in Belfast and work across disciplines and locations.

You will design secure, scalable backend services with Spring Boot, deploy on Azure, and contribute to CI/CD, testing, and mentoring of engineers. A hybrid work arrangement is required, with travel as needed.