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Alexander Vasilenko
Last position:
Senior Cloud & Kubernetes Architect at A.S.E. | Business Solutions for Construction
- Architected and deployed a highly available, multi-tenant Kubernetes platform on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for business-critical microservices.
- Designed and implemented a comprehensive Infrastructure-as-Code strategy using Terraform for managing GKE clusters, networking (VPCs, Subnets), and IAM policies.
- Engineered optimized storage solutions for stateful workloads (MongoDB) using GKE PersistentVolumes, enhancing performance and data resiliency.
- Established a full-stack observability framework using Google Cloud Monitoring, Logging, Prometheus, and Grafana.
Michail Matjuchin
Last position:
OpenShift Specialist, Developer at Insurance
Project goal: Introduce OpenShift as the run-time platform and migrate all applications to OpenShift.
My contribution: Make sure logging and monitoring for the applications were in place. Set up and put into operation the OpenShift components for logging and monitoring (Elasticsearch, Prometheus, and Grafana). Develop and implement the security concept for OpenShift. Work with developers to define and carry out the application changes needed for the OpenShift migration. Integrate monitoring into the applications.
Technical environment: Java, WebSphere Liberty, OpenShift components, Elasticsearch (ELK stack), Prometheus, Grafana.
Emre Hayta
Last position:
DevOps Engineer at SIWA Online GmbH
- Planning and implementation of IT infrastructures for clients
- Automating deployments with AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK
- Monitoring and optimizing cloud environments and the entire IT infrastructure
- Providing technical support and troubleshooting infrastructure issues
- Collaborating with development teams on CI/CD processes
John Ampia-Addison
Last position:
Software Developer and DevOps Engineer at Bundesrechenzentrum (BRZ)
Refactoring and improving core APIs; implementing client change requests. Setting up metrics, traces, and logs monitoring infrastructure to support operations. Designing GitOps deployment and infrastructure as code. Applications and Systems Configuration in ArgoCD and Openshift. Confluence documentation of design, approach, and solution. Tech Stack: Java 8 & 21, Spring framework, JSP, Javascript, Bash Scripts, SQL, Grafana Stack, Opentelemetry, Docker, DB2, Maven, Kubernetes Kompose.
Christian Werner
Last position:
EHF.at
- Further development and ongoing maintenance of the existing WordPress site for EHF.at to revamp the responsive design and improve usability on mobile devices.
- Integration of WooCommerce into the existing site for full e-commerce functionality and digitization of the team sports apparel sales process.
- Implementation and configuration of an automated newsletter system to strengthen customer loyalty through regular updates and personalized offers.
- Ongoing maintenance including regular updates, performance optimizations, and security checks to keep the site up-to-date and functional.
- Project-related technical activities: PHP, CSS, and JavaScript.
Raphael Mulenda
Last position:
Team Lead / Head of Service Desk & Field Service at B&R Industrial Automation (ABB)
- Owned day-to-day IT operations for Service Desk, Field Service, and on-call support, ensuring business continuity for a multi-site environment
- Led the transition from Lotus Notes incident tracking to ServiceNow, defining process design, workflows, roles, and reporting
- Implemented a modern telephony system with integrated reporting, enabling real-time visibility of volumes, wait times, and SLA adherence
- Launched a customer self-service portal and on-site walk-in support model to improve first-contact resolution and user experience
- Designed, documented, and rolled out SLAs, delivering targeted training for engineers and stakeholders to drive adoption and compliance
- Acted as process owner for service operations, establishing operating procedures, request/change/incident interfaces, and quality controls
- Partnered with business and IS/OT stakeholders to prioritize demand, reduce operational risk, and improve service reliability
René Zingerle
Last position:
DevSecOps & Kubernetes Engineer (Freelance) at mgm technology partners GmbH
Development of a Custom Jenkins Shared Library (Groovy)
Integration of security checks in CI/CD pipeline (Shift-Left Approach)
Automated vulnerability scanning and remediation workflows
GitOps-based deployments with ArgoCD
Semantic versioning automation with Git integration
Container lifecycle management (Build/Scan/Tag/Push)
ArgoCD webhook integration for event-driven deployments
Complete cluster automation with Ansible
Bare-metal Kubernetes installation from scratch
High-availability control plane setup
Unified deployment system for multi-application orchestration
Configuration management according to NIST SP 800-128
Host security: Linux hardening, SELinux/AppArmor
Network security: NetworkPolicies, micro-segmentation
Application security: RBAC, Pod Security Standards
Data security: Encryption at rest and in transit
Defense-in-depth principles
Certificate management with cert-manager
Secrets management with External Secrets Operator connected to Vault
Infrastructure monitoring with Checkmk
Prometheus/Grafana monitoring stack
Security event detection and logging
Automated health checks and incident response procedures
MetalLB load balancing for bare-metal
Nginx ingress controller with SSL passthrough
NetworkPolicies for security zones
Rook-Ceph distributed storage, CNI configuration (Weave Net)
Container & orchestration: Kubernetes (bare-metal), Docker, Helm
CI/CD & GitOps: Jenkins (Custom Shared Library), ArgoCD, Groovy
Automation: Ansible, Bash, Python
Security: nftables, RBAC, NetworkPolicies, cert-manager, Vault, Sealed Secrets
Monitoring: Checkmk, Prometheus, Grafana
Storage & networking: Rook-Ceph, MetalLB, Nginx Ingress, Calico
Collaboration: Jira, Confluence
OS: Debian, Ubuntu
Andreas Kainz
Last position:
DevOps Consultant at Automotive/freelancer
- Infrastructure automation with Ansible, AWX, Docker/DockerCompose/Kubernetes, GitLab, Bash, Python (Ubuntu)
- Infrastructure monitoring with Icinga2
- Software development in Python
- Qemu, KVM, libvirt
Kurt Blumenschein
Last position:
Backend / Microservice Developer, DevOps, Test Automation at RCA, Rail Cargo Austria AG
- Backend / Microservice Developer, DevOps, Test Automation
- ~100 Devs, ~10 Teams, per team: 1 PO, 1 Scrum Master, 1 UX, 1 Developer, 1 Tester
- .net core 8, 9, C#
- Microservices, Clean-Architecture, MediatR, CQRS
- GraphQL, REST, SDL
- Azure DevOps, CI / CD-pipelines, Azure-Service Bus, Rabbit-MQ, Kafka, Azure App Configuration, Azure KeyVault, Azure Kubernetes AKS
- Splunk, dashboards, custom metrics, Elastic-Search, Kibana (ELK)
- Azure SQL-Databases, Azure Cosmos DB
- Architecture decisions, event governance, COP (Backend, DevOps, FrontEnt, Test Automations)
- AI, Copilot, creating test templates
- Scheduler, Hangfire, Quartz
- Automated unit and integration tests
- Automated E2E tests, Playwright test automation, BDD, Gherkin, Cucumber
- Tracking of shipments
- GIS, GPS data, geofence, geo search, position tracking, asset positions
- Jira, Confluence
- Focus on high-performance message-oriented architecture (~xx million messages per month per service)
- Structured logging, Serilog, OTel, Splunk, Application Monitoring
- Integration of different position data sources (GPS-based data) into Azure Data Lake
Lulzim Bulica
Last position:
Centralized monitoring
- Setup and maintain Prometheus and Grafana via Docker for more than 2.000 services.
- Setup CI/CD with Ansible to provision and maintain Prometheus and Grafana.
- Metrics visualization and segregation in multiple dynamic dashboards.
- Setup of real time alerting for critical services.
Jasmin Gölder
Last position:
Cloud Developer & DevOps Engineer at Energy Utility Company
- Further developing microservices (Go, .NET)
- Expanding gRPC APIs
- Maintaining Kubernetes clusters (AKS)
- Managing the system landscape
- Migrating Azure App Services to Kubernetes
- Creating and extending Azure Pipelines
- Developing a Go microservice to receive and send events from Azure Service Bus
- Integrating KEDA for autoscaling
- Technologies used: Go, .NET, Azure Portal, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, MongoDB, Jaeger, Grafana
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DevOps Engineers statistics
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
20 years
Position duration
3.2 years
Positions per freelancer
11
Top business areas
Information Technology, Operations, Product Development
Top industries
Information Technology, Healthcare, Transportation
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Operations
Bachelor's degree or higher
67%
Master's degree or higher
44%
Certifications per freelancer
4
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 28 Aug 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this role in Austria are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows how many freelancers charge within that range.
Average rates for DevOps Engineers in Austria
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 28 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
About the role
Delivery scope A DevOps Engineer builds the path from code to production and keeps it stable. They connect development, operations, and security so teams can ship changes with less friction.
- Design and improve CI/CD pipelines
- Automate builds, tests, and deployments
- Set up cloud and container infrastructure
- Add monitoring, alerting, and logging
- Support incident response and release readiness
Core skills Strong DevOps Engineers know how to work across the stack. They understand scripting, Linux, networks, version control, and infrastructure as code.
- Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or similar tools
- Docker and Kubernetes
- AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Bash, Python, or another automation language
- Git-based workflows and release branching
When to hire Companies bring in a freelance DevOps Engineer when a platform needs to move faster, recover better, or scale more cleanly. The role is useful for cloud migrations, pipeline rebuilds, container rollouts, and production hardening. In Austria, this often fits product teams, software firms, industrial companies, and regulated organizations that need extra hands without adding a permanent seat. It also works well when internal teams need short-term support from a platform engineer or site reliability engineer with hands-on delivery skills.
What they deliver A good freelancer does more than patch issues. They leave behind systems the team can run without constant help.
- Repeatable deployment pipelines
- Infrastructure templates and runbooks
- Monitoring dashboards and alert rules
- Secure access and environment setup
- Clear handover for developers and ops teams
What strong experts bring The best DevOps professionals are practical and calm under pressure. They can diagnose a failing deployment, trace a cloud issue, and improve the process behind it. They write clean automation, document decisions, and avoid brittle setups. They also know when a problem is really about architecture, permissions, testing, or release discipline rather than the tool itself.
Working model A freelance DevOps Engineer can join remotely or on-site, depending on the system and the team. For Austria-based clients, this is common when English is the main working language, while local coordination may still happen with product, security, or infrastructure stakeholders. Freelance support is a good fit when the need is specific, urgent, or tied to one platform, release cycle, or migration. It helps companies get focused delivery without slowing the team down.
Frequently asked questions
Key details about DevOps Engineers, drawn from the questions we get asked most.
A DevOps Engineer connects development and operations so software can be built, tested, released, and monitored in a reliable way. Typical work includes pipeline automation, cloud setup, infrastructure as code, and production support. The exact scope depends on whether the team needs delivery help, platform stability, or both.
A strong DevOps freelancer should be comfortable with CI/CD, Linux, cloud services, containers, and scripting. They should also know how to work with Git, monitoring tools, and infrastructure as code. Good communication matters too, because the role sits between developers, operations, and security.
The names overlap, but the focus is not always the same. A platform engineer usually builds internal platforms and reusable services, while an SRE focuses more on reliability, incident handling, and service-level practices. A DevOps Engineer often spans both worlds and works directly on automation, delivery, and operational improvement.
A freelancer makes sense when the need is project-based, urgent, or tied to a specific gap in cloud, CI/CD, or infrastructure work. It is also useful when a team needs specialist support for a migration, release overhaul, or production problem. A permanent hire is better when the need is broad and ongoing across many teams.
Freelance DevOps work fits cloud migrations, Kubernetes rollouts, pipeline redesigns, observability improvements, and infrastructure hardening. It also fits recovery work after unstable releases or slow deployments. In many cases, the best assignment is one with a clear technical goal and a clean handover.
Yes, remote collaboration is common, especially for cloud, automation, and pipeline work. For Austrian companies, the main question is usually whether the team can share access, context, and decisions efficiently. On-site time can still help during workshops, incident response, or migration phases.
Look for evidence of systems they improved, not just tools they used. A good DevOps Engineer can explain trade-offs, show how they reduced manual work, and describe how they made deployments safer. Strong candidates also leave clear documentation and make handover easy for the team.
They do not always write product features, but they do need solid coding and scripting skills. Automation, deployment logic, and infrastructure work often require Python, Bash, YAML, or similar tools. The best candidates think like engineers: they build repeatable systems, not one-off fixes.
The average hourly rate for DevOps Engineers in Austria is 97 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 773 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers working as DevOps Engineers in Austria, 67% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 44% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers working as DevOps Engineers in Austria have 20 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers working as DevOps Engineers in Austria are German (100%), English (100%), and Spanish (27%).
The most common industries among freelancers working as DevOps Engineers in Austria are Information Technology (100%), Healthcare (36%), and Transportation (36%).
The most common business areas among freelancers working as DevOps Engineers in Austria are Information Technology (100%), Operations (82%), and Product Development (73%).
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