Amazon ECS Experts in Berlin
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Berlin, who have recently used Amazon ECS
Benjamin F.
Last position:
Freelance Product Manager, Product Owner, Scrum Master & Agile Coach at Freelance
Freelance product owner, scrum master and agile coach in various projects spanning from local agencies to multinational corporations in diverse industries.
Last projects:
Adevinta: Technical Project Manager responsible for coordination of several sub-workstreams building the world’s largest classifieds multi-tenant platform.
Aroundhome (a ProSiebenSat.1 company): Product Manager implementing and verifying on the business side a concept for digital qualification of user requests for matching service providers.
Peek & Cloppenburg Düsseldorf: Product Manager Mobile advising on and guiding the rebuild of Android and iOS apps.
Visual Meta GmbH (an Axel Springer company), Berlin: Director Product co-leading the Product & Engineering department together with the Director Engineering.
Responsibilities at Visual Meta GmbH:
Define and deliver a 3–5 year horizon product strategy including a product vision & mission connecting to existing company strategy and strategies from adjacent departments.
Refine an existing OKR process together with OKR master and directors of other departments to increase focus and outcome.
Support the Director Engineering in creating a platform transformation strategy to transform a monolithic on-premise tech stack into a service-oriented, cloud-based architecture and establish a domain-based organizational setup.
Accountability for a motivated and talented team of 5 head-level colleagues and 17 operational team members from product management, data and UX/UI design.
Key achievements at Visual Meta GmbH:
Defined and delivered a 3–5 year horizon product strategy including a product vision & mission.
Increased focus within OKR process by moving from 10 company-level objectives to 2 and from several hundred team-level key results to a few dozen.
Created a career path framework for the product team defining roles and responsibilities from junior to head level positions.
Nune I.
Last position:
Fractional CTO at OpsWorker
OpsWorker turns Kubernetes alerts into root-cause analyses, on top of the monitoring a team already runs. I lead the technical side: the agent architecture, the AWS infrastructure it runs on (fully inside EU regions), and the engineering decisions behind it, read-only in the cluster by default, human in the loop for judgment. The stack underneath: Amazon Bedrock and Bedrock AgentCore, agents built with the Strands Agents SDK, the Claude and OpenAI APIs, and the Kubernetes API.
Jan K.
Last position:
Data Expert at Manufacturing
Daniel B.
Last position:
Senior Cloud Consultant and Developer at SDIA/Leitmotiv
- Consulting an NGO in the field of data center sustainability in publicly funded projects (BMUKN with NADIKI and Umweltbundesamt with SIEC)
- Development of Python APIs and web applications, deployment on AWS/ECS with Terraform
- Collecting power consumption metrics for servers, CPUs, GPUs running AI workloads
- Technologies used: AWS, EC2, ECS, Fargate, CloudMap, VPC, Route53, Lambda, EventBridge, CodeBuild/CodePipeline/CodeDeploy, Terraform, Docker, Linux, Bash scripting, Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, SQL, MariaDB, InfluxDB, Telegraf, Prometheus, Zabbix, Kubernetes, Letsencrypt, certificate management
Qaiser A.
Last position:
Freelance Lead DevOps Engineer at Schwarz Gruppe Produktion
Bootstrapping a CloudOps team and building a multi-cloud provider backend for a low-code Internal Developer Platform (IDP) with env zero
Introducing user story mapping, ADRs, milestones, and backlog management
Designing and developing core APIs, setting up CI/CD pipelines, OpenTofu/Terraform scripts
Representing and communicating the team with third-party stakeholders (e.g. env zero)
(Cross-)team coaching on DevOps, software design, Terraform, Golang, and agile practices
Vili D.
Last position:
Technical Lead, Data Engineer at Mercedes-Benz Consulting
- Optimized the data architecture (medallion) to better decouple processing stages and improve transparency and reproducibility
- Ensured technical quality of data processing in Databricks by introducing schema enforcement, data quality checks and a structured data architecture
- Orchestrated pipelines with Azure Data Factory
- Professionalized and automated the development and deployment process by integrating Git and GitHub Actions
- Led the Data Engineering team (3 members) in a functional role
- Conducted workshops to optimize and stabilize the data platform and the development process
- Collected and prioritized new requests, maintained the product backlog
- Technologies: Microsoft Azure (Data Lake, Data Factory), Databricks, Apache Spark (PySpark), Python, SQL, Git, Confluence, Power BI, Power Apps, Dataverse, MS SharePoint, Mural
Igor K.
Last position:
Freelance Software Developer
Ashwin P.
Last position:
Data Scientist at Mercor Intelligence
- Elevated LLM output reliability by engineering domain-specific prompts and evaluation logic, improving reasoning consistency across production language model workflows.
- Designed advanced coding benchmarks and validated solutions to strengthen training and evaluation datasets, improving model performance on technical problem-solving tasks.
- Designed and implemented automated evaluation frameworks for technical reasoning tasks; optimized LLM output reliability by 15% through rigorous prompt engineering and rubric-based benchmarking.
Oleg A.
Last position:
Lead Full Stack Software Engineer at sdev
- Worked on a customer project under NDA
- Tech stack used:
- Backend: TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, Express, PostgreSQL, OpenAI API, Docker
- Frontend: TypeScript, Vue.js 3 with Composition API, Vuetify 3, Angular, Angular Material, SCSS, TailwindCSS
Christian R.
Last position:
Freelance Data Engineer at Ingenieurbüro Christian Richter – Data, Cloud & Container
- Contributed to over 20 successful projects
Luca D.
Last position:
CTO & Co-Founder at Lucent Data GmbH
- Built a warehouse native customer data platform from scratch
- Successfully onboarded the first customer
- Built the first engineering team of 3 engineers
- Raised 1M€ in venture capital
Henning P.
Last position:
Backend Systems Development at Deutsche Bank/DWS/Morgenfund
- Developed backend systems for the DWS Investment App, a white-label investment solution (robo-advisor), and an investment solution for institutional clients.
- Java 8-17, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, OpenAPI 3.0, JPA, JDBI, Oracle, Hazelcast, JXLS, Apache POI, Apache PDFBox, Apache Kafka & Avro, Active MQ, Elasticsearch, React Native, Spock Test, IntelliJ IDEA, Kubernetes, Helm, Microservices/Netflix-Stack, TeamCity, Splunk.
- Kanban team, continuous integration.
- Migrated existing applications from Deutsche Bank's private cloud environment to Azure as part of a carve-out.
Robert H.
Last position:
Senior Software Engineer at Zalando SE
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Statistics of experts using Amazon ECS
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
18 years (Germany: 17 years)
Position duration
2.5 years (Germany: 2.1 years)
Positions per freelancer
11 (Germany: 13)
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Business Intelligence
Top industries
Information Technology, Retail, Media and Entertainment
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
89% (Germany: 88%)
Master's degree or higher
33% (Germany: 48%)
Doctorate
11% (Germany: 12%)
Certifications per freelancer
2 (Germany: 3)
Most common languages
German, English, Russian
Speak two or more languages
92% (Germany: 97%)
Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Berlin 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 of experts in Berlin using Amazon ECS
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 19 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Amazon ECS experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (92%)
- Retail (62%)
- Media and Entertainment (46%)
- Professional Services (46%)
- Automotive (38%)
- Banking and Finance (38%)
- Education (31%)
- Tourism (31%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What Amazon ECS does
Amazon Elastic Container Service, usually called Amazon ECS, is a managed AWS service for running, scaling and maintaining containerized applications. It coordinates tasks, services, deployments and compute capacity without requiring a company to operate its own container control plane. Teams use it for APIs, web applications, background workers, scheduled jobs and event-driven services.
Core architecture
ECS organizes workloads through clusters, task definitions and services. A strong implementation matches each workload with the right launch model, including AWS Fargate for serverless container operations or Amazon EC2 for deeper control over hosts and capacity. Specialists also define networking, health checks, service discovery, secrets and resilient placement.
Ecosystem and tooling
ECS works closely with the wider AWS ecosystem and common delivery tools:
- Amazon ECR for storing and scanning container images
- IAM, VPC, security groups and CloudWatch for access, networking and observability
- Application Load Balancer for routing traffic to services
- CodePipeline, GitHub Actions or Terraform for repeatable delivery
- CloudFormation or AWS CDK for infrastructure as code
These integrations make ECS suitable for teams that want container operations aligned with existing AWS governance.
When companies need specialists
Companies often bring in freelance expertise when moving workloads from virtual machines to containers, replacing a self-managed Kubernetes setup, or establishing a reliable deployment path. Specialists can audit task definitions, tune capacity, improve rollout safety and reduce operational friction. In Berlin, on-site workshops can be combined with remote delivery for distributed product and operations teams.
Typical delivery work
An Amazon ECS professional may design the target architecture, containerize services, create environments and automate releases. They can also implement blue-green or rolling deployments, configure autoscaling, set up logs and metrics, and document recovery procedures. The deliverable should include clear infrastructure definitions, secure configuration and practical runbooks rather than an isolated cluster.
What strong professionals bring
Strong specialists understand both application containers and the AWS services around them. They can explain why Fargate, EC2 or an alternative such as Amazon EKS fits a workload, then validate that decision against cost control, compliance, team skills and operational risk. They test failure scenarios, limit permissions, protect secrets and leave a maintainable system that internal teams can operate. Clear communication in English is common for Berlin-based collaborations, with German useful when local stakeholders require it.
Frequently asked questions
Before you brief your next project: the most common questions about Amazon ECS.
Amazon ECS runs containerized applications on AWS and manages services, tasks, deployments and scaling. Companies use it for customer-facing APIs, web applications, workers, scheduled processes and event-driven workloads.
Amazon ECS is an AWS-native container orchestration service with a simpler operating model for teams already using AWS. Amazon EKS provides managed Kubernetes, which can suit organizations that need Kubernetes compatibility, portability or its broader ecosystem but can require more platform expertise.
Amazon ECS supports both AWS Fargate and Amazon EC2 capacity. Fargate removes host management, while EC2 offers more control over instance types, specialized workloads and capacity planning; the right choice depends on workload behavior, governance and operational preferences.
Amazon ECS work commonly requires knowledge of Docker, Amazon ECR, IAM, VPC networking, load balancing and CloudWatch. Infrastructure as code with Terraform, CloudFormation or AWS CDK, plus CI/CD and application observability, is also valuable.
Amazon ECS experience should match the project risk rather than a fixed career threshold. A simple service migration may need strong container and AWS fundamentals, while a multi-environment platform needs proven skills in networking, security, deployment safety, scaling and incident recovery.
Amazon ECS projects are often suitable for remote collaboration because infrastructure, repositories and AWS environments can be accessed securely online. On-site sessions in Berlin can still help with discovery, architecture reviews and handover when several teams or German-speaking stakeholders are involved.
Amazon ECS quality is shown through clear architecture decisions and production-minded delivery, not only through a working demo. Ask how the specialist handles IAM boundaries, network design, image security, observability, deployments, rollback and failure testing.
Amazon ECS may be less suitable when a company needs Kubernetes-specific APIs, broad multi-cloud portability or a platform already standardized on Kubernetes. A specialist should compare ECS with Amazon EKS and other deployment options against the team’s operating model instead of treating one service as universal.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Amazon ECS in their recent projects is 104 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 830 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Amazon ECS in their recent projects, 89% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 33% hold at least a Master's degree, and 11% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Amazon ECS in their recent projects have 18 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.5 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Amazon ECS in their recent projects are German (100%), English (92%), and Russian (15%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Amazon ECS in their recent projects are Information Technology (92%), Retail (62%), and Media and Entertainment (46%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used Amazon ECS in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (85%), and Business Intelligence (77%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Amazon ECS
Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.
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