Amazon Web Services Experts in Switzerland
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Frank G.
Last position:
Agile Coach and Program Manager at Centris AG
The insurance application service provider in Switzerland intended to develop a multi-channel output system to support their customers on their digital enhancement journey.
- Established an Agile Release Train based on SAFe 6.0
- Trained all ART leadership
- Coached the development of the solution intent
- Established 5 teams in the ART. Developed the Epic and Feature Backlog for the team.
- Planned and coached 2 PI planning sessions
The insurance application service provider in Switzerland intended to transform their claims management BPO and IT team into an agile delivery organization.
- Established an Agile Release Train based on SAFe 6.0
- Trained all ART leadership
- Coached the development of the solution intent
- Established 2 teams in an ART.
- Developed the Epic and Feature Backlog for the team.
- Planned and coached 2 PI planning sessions
Nikita V.
Last position:
Salesforce Technical Architect at Fennia
- Designed and engineered a shared web component library for a customer portal serving 360,000+ private users and integrated the LWC framework with Storybook via Rollup.
- Resolved WCAG AA compliance issues to support strict accessibility requirements.
- Integrated legacy systems into a new portal via REST API to support existing products.
Mohamad K.
Last position:
Senior Backend Developer at Standing on Giants
- Led architecture and end-to-end engineering delivery for community-driven SaaS platforms serving 2M+ monthly active users.
- Architected and led the migration of a monolithic Python/FastAPI and PostgreSQL database and LangChain with codebase to an event-driven microservices architecture on AWS EKS, sustaining 10x traffic growth from ~150 RPS to 1,500+ RPS with zero re-architecture cycles.
- Defined and enforced engineering standards across services including API contracts, observability baselines, and deployment topology, reducing production incidents by 55% and MTTR from 2 hours to under 25 minutes within 9 months.
- Redesigned the caching and query layer using multi-tier Redis caching and database indexing/partitioning, cutting p95 API latency from 850ms to 180ms (78% reduction) and database CPU load by 45%.
- Built CI/CD platform on GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Kubernetes (EKS) with blue-green and canary rollouts, increasing deployment frequency from ~2/month to 8-12/day and reducing lead time from 10 days to under 6 hours.
- Implemented contract testing, automated load testing, and observability SLOs using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry, raising platform availability from 99.5% to 99.95% (10x reduction in error budget burn).
- Led and grew a cross-functional team of 8 engineers across backend, frontend, and DevOps, scaling headcount from 4 to 8 with 85% retention; owned hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and career development.
- Partnered with Product, Design, and Client Success leadership as primary technical decision-maker; translated business goals into technical roadmaps and drove build-vs-buy decisions on authentication, search, and AI tooling.
- Introduced AI-assisted development workflows including automated code review and a RAG-based internal knowledge assistant using Graph (GraphRAG, Neo4J), increasing sprint throughput by 30% across two quarters.
- Owned incident command and production support rotation; established runbooks, postmortem culture, and on-call SLOs, reducing weekend paging incidents by 70%.
- Developed and optimized Algorithms using python libraries like Numpy and Pandas.
Christoph P.
Last position:
ICT DevSecOps Engineer & Security Coordinator at Abraxas Informatik AG
- Interface role with the SOC team; improved incident response time by 45% through structured escalation processes and proactive security monitoring.
- Defined technical standards for a multi-tenant enterprise platform (10+ services), resulting in a 30% shorter onboarding time for new clients in the public sector.
- Active knowledge transfer and mentoring of a 6-person team; increased team autonomy and established a sustainable engineering culture.
- Reduced time to market by 50% by optimizing CI/CD pipelines and establishing self-service deployments.
- Stack: GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, Nexus, Harbor, ArgoCD, HashiCorp Vault, Grafana, Python, PostgreSQL, Java, Spring Boot, Flyway, Quarkus, JBoss, Loki, Go, Kafka, Kustomize, MongoDB
Milan S.
Last position:
Cloud Architect & DevOps at Avaloq
- Main cloud solution architect on a banking SaaS offering hosted in Azure.
- Fully automated the Azure infrastructure in Terraform.
- Reduced cloud costs by 50%.
- Responded to incidents, found root-causes and closed with post-mortems.
Ralf R.
Last position:
Security Architect at Federal Employment Agency
Responsibility for the design, migration, and integration of a security- and audit-critical HashiCorp Vault platform in the trust center of a nationwide authority with system-critical importance.
Analysis and realignment of the existing HashiCorp Vault landscape, including production and planned use cases
Design, proof-of-concept, migration, and integration of HashiCorp Vault Enterprise, taking into account the authority's PKI and operational processes
Design and implementation of an automated certificate and secrets management system for 300 Kubernetes clusters and several thousand certificates in the trust center
Securing the Vault platform using hardware security modules (HSM)
The solution enables a highly available, audit-compliant, and automated operation of certificate and secrets use cases in a highly regulated environment.
Technologies used: HashiCorp Vault Enterprise, Terraform, Ansible, OpenSSL, PKI, HSM
Venkata R.
Last position:
Continuous Learning at Personal Time Off
- ZHAW CAS Secure Software Design and Development
- German C1 and Goethe Certificate C1
- ETH CAS Cloud and Mobile Computing at ETH Zurich
- Linux Foundation Linux System Administration LFS307
- Linux Foundation Kubernetes Fundamentals LFS258
- Linux Foundation Kubernetes for Application Developers LFD459
- Linux Foundation Kubernetes Security Fundamentals LFS460
Hanspeter J.
Last position:
Lead Salesforce Consultant DACH at DXC Technology
- Recording, validating, and coordinating customer requirements
- Analyzing customers' business processes, and designing and implementing solutions in Salesforce
- Designing and developing Salesforce architectures using Sales and Service Cloud
- Maintaining and expanding my skills to stay current with Salesforce's new features
- Taking an active role in the pre-sales phase and working closely with sales and pre-sales teams
- Building and strengthening the team's expertise in new areas
- Actively helping to define and align my role within DXC's best practices
- MC Growth implementation
- AI Agentforce Agents Builder
- Agent Designer with elements.cloud
- Salesforce org assessments
- Process configuration mining
- Serving as a single point of contact for global SFDC contacts
- Coordinating projects with the EMEA and global headquarters
- Preparing proposals and presales work with Salesforce Account Executives and client partners for global accounts
Ursula M.
Last position:
Business Mentor at RoleModel Rebels
- Mentor female students and professionals in advancing their careers, particularly as aspiring tech entrepreneurs.
Claus N.
Last position:
Oracle Database Engineer at BBV.ch
- Migration of databases from ODA to ExaData
- Migration of databases from ExaData to ExaCC/OCI
- Decreased UCC usage by 10%
- Developing automation scripts using Python
- Performance tuning
- Shrunk development databases from 6 TB to 3 TB using Exadata columnar compression
- Tuned application performance by 30% using inmemory option
- Tuned non-production Exadata by 20% to release CPU resources before ExaCC migration
- Database patching of Oracle 19c
- Basic Ansible scripting for deployments and database cloning
- Developing acconting model for shared Oracle platform
- Migrating single-instance databases to Oracle RAC
- Analysis of RAC issues
- Advising development teams of how to migrate to RAC
Patrick R.
Last position:
DevOps Engineer at Swisscard AECS AG
- PoC for various platform integration functionalities using Backstage and Crossplane
- Implementation of improvements of developer experience with Azure AVD and DevSpace
- Manage application deployment infrastructure on Kubernetes clusters
- Manage CI/CD platform
- Manage deployments into Kubernetes (Rancher and AKS) and into Azure
- Act as security champion of the DevOps team
- Manage vulnerabilities and support dev teams to manage third-party vulnerabilities using JFrog Xray
- Support building the platform team
- Manage infrastructure as code using Terraform and Atlantis
- Build and integrate a platform and IDP using Crossplane
Michael S.
Last position:
Freelance compliance & IT regulatory consultant at Various financial institutions and regulated companies
- Consulting financial institutions on implementing DORA and NIS2 requirements
- Gap analyses between existing governance structures and new regulatory requirements
- Creation and revision of policies, process descriptions, contract annexes, and technical-organizational measures
- Design of digital operational resilience testing programs (DORA Art. 24–25)
- Third-party risk management: building third-party registers, LEI matching, value chain analysis
- Training internal staff on DORA/NIS2 requirements
- Negotiation and renegotiation of outsourcing contracts according to DORA/NIS2 guidelines
- Use of technologies/frameworks: DORA, NIS2, EBA guidelines, BaFin requirements, NIST CSF, ISO 27001
- Engagements are subject to strict NDAs
Elias V.
Last position:
Cloud Architect & Security Advisor at BaFin
- Designing hybrid cloud architectures (on-prem + cloud)
- Implementing cloud governance structures according to NIS2, BSI, ESCB/SMM
- Developing policies for cloud security & access control
- Target designs, management decision frameworks, internal audits & cloud integration
Stefan H.
Last position:
Fullstack Development, Product Owner & Tech Lead at Trex AG
- Business analysis, architecture, and implementation of a telemedicine platform for pet owners.
- Leading the development team as Product Owner and Tech Lead.
- Introducing agile processes, setting up development guidelines and system documentation.
- Planning and implementing features like video calls, live chat, and marketing automation.
- Implementing AI-based features such as automated tagging of information (missing pet reports, marketplace entries, etc.), preparation of social media content, and processing of conversation transcripts.
- Skills: Angular, NGXS, Tailwind, Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, MySQL, LLMs, RAG, MCP, Redis, OpenSearch.
- Industry: Veterinary medicine.
Jack S.
Last position:
Freelance - Fullstack Engineer at SMG Swiss Marketplace Group
- Supported the team in merging two real estate platforms into a unified Vue.js-based solution
- Developed a custom SSR microservice architecture deployed on AWS Lambdas
- Designed and implemented a map drawing feature
- Took ownership of migrating the microservice from Vue 2 to Vue 3
- Built a scalable SSR microservice architecture using AWS Lambda
- Developed and implemented a critical map drawing feature for real estate visualization
- Successfully migrated the microservice from Vue 2 to Vue 3
- Gained deep knowledge of AWS infrastructure, Datadog, Sentry, and Vite
- Technologies: Vue.js, Node.js, Vite, AWS Lambda, Datadog, Sentry, JavaScript
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Statistics of experts using Amazon Web Services
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
23 years
Position duration
2.9 years
Positions per freelancer
17
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
90%
Master's degree or higher
55%
Doctorate
7%
Certifications per freelancer
5
Most common languages
English, German, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
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 Switzerland 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.
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Explore rate insightsAverage rates of experts in Switzerland using Amazon Web Services
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 Web Services 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 (97%)
- Banking and Finance (87%)
- Professional Services (53%)
- Insurance (50%)
- Government and Administration (50%)
- Energy (42%)
- Manufacturing (42%)
- Telecommunication (42%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Cloud foundation
Amazon Web Services, commonly called AWS, is a broad cloud ecosystem for running applications, storing data and connecting digital services. Companies use it to replace or extend physical infrastructure with on-demand compute, networking, databases and security controls. AWS supports both cloud-native products and carefully managed hybrid environments.
Services and architecture
An AWS solution may combine Amazon EC2, Lambda, ECS or EKS for workloads, alongside S3, RDS, DynamoDB and Aurora for storage and data. VPC, IAM, CloudFront and Route 53 provide network, identity and delivery foundations. Strong architecture balances resilience, operational simplicity, security and sensible service selection rather than adding services without a clear purpose.
Delivery and automation
AWS specialists work with CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform and CI/CD systems to make infrastructure repeatable. They configure observability through CloudWatch, CloudTrail and related tooling, then define alerts, access policies, backups and recovery procedures. Container platforms, event-driven workflows and managed databases often form part of the delivery stack.
Where companies use it
- Launching customer-facing web and mobile backends
- Modernising applications and moving workloads from data centres
- Building data lakes, analytics pipelines and machine learning environments
- Operating APIs, event-driven services and container platforms
- Creating backup, disaster recovery and multi-region designs
Swiss companies bring in freelance AWS expertise when a migration has to move safely, when an internal team needs capacity for a demanding release, or when an existing account has become difficult to govern. Local organisations in finance, manufacturing, healthcare and digital services may also need professionals who can align cloud work with established security and delivery processes.
When to bring in a specialist
- AWS costs or resource ownership are unclear
- Deployments depend on manual console work
- IAM permissions, network boundaries or logging need review
- A monolith is being split into services or containers
- The team needs a tested recovery and operating model
A freelance specialist can assess the current estate, define a target architecture, execute a migration or leave behind documented infrastructure. Remote collaboration works well for many AWS projects; on-site workshops in Switzerland can help when teams need close coordination, discovery or knowledge transfer. Clear English is common, with German, French or Italian useful depending on the organisation.
What strong AWS professionals bring
Look for practical ownership across architecture, implementation and operations. A capable professional explains why a managed service fits, limits permissions through least privilege, treats infrastructure as code and tests failure scenarios. They should also communicate trade-offs between AWS and alternatives such as Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud, document decisions, and connect technical design to the product’s reliability and compliance needs.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about Amazon Web Services? Start with the answers below.
Amazon Web Services provides cloud services for computing, storage, databases, networking, security, analytics and application delivery. Companies use AWS to host websites and APIs, process events, run containers, build data platforms and support backup or disaster recovery.
AWS offers a broad service portfolio and a mature ecosystem of managed infrastructure, application and data services. Azure may fit organisations centred on Microsoft identity and products, while Google Cloud is often considered for data and machine learning strengths; the right choice depends on existing skills, architecture and governance.
Amazon Web Services work commonly overlaps with Linux, networking, identity management, containers, Kubernetes, Terraform and CI/CD. Useful specialists also understand observability, databases, security reviews and software delivery, because cloud infrastructure rarely operates in isolation.
AWS project needs vary with risk and scope rather than a fixed tenure. A simple deployment may need focused service expertise, while a migration, regulated workload or high-availability platform calls for someone who has handled architecture, automation, incidents and recovery planning in comparable environments.
Amazon Web Services projects are often suitable for remote collaboration because configuration, documentation and delivery take place in shared technical environments. On-site sessions can still help with discovery, stakeholder workshops and handover, while language needs depend on the Swiss team and project context.
AWS candidates should be able to show relevant architecture decisions, infrastructure automation and operational outcomes without exposing confidential details. Ask how they handle IAM, monitoring, backups, failure testing, documentation and cost controls, then use a short technical discussion to test their reasoning.
Amazon Web Services supports several migration paths, including rehosting, platform changes, refactoring and hybrid operation. A strong specialist first maps dependencies, data movement, security boundaries and rollback options before recommending the least risky approach.
AWS changes through new services, updated features and evolving security guidance, so specialists need regular hands-on practice and careful reading of service documentation. They can also deepen their skills through architecture reviews, incident analysis, infrastructure labs and work across different workload patterns.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Switzerland who have used Amazon Web Services in their recent projects is 115 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 919 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Switzerland who have used Amazon Web Services in their recent projects, 90% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 55% hold at least a Master's degree, and 7% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Switzerland who have used Amazon Web Services in their recent projects have 23 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.9 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Amazon Web Services in their recent projects are English (97%), German (95%), and French (42%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Amazon Web Services in their recent projects are Information Technology (97%), Banking and Finance (87%), and Professional Services (53%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Amazon Web Services in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (79%), and Operations (61%).
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