Ansible Experts in Switzerland
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Switzerland, who have recently used Ansible
Christoph Pardon
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 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% through CI/CD pipeline optimization and the introduction of 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
Ralf Ramge
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 Renduchintala
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
Claus Nielsen
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 Riegler
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
Yuri Gladkov
Last position:
Senior Security Devops Engineer at Swisscom
- Implementation and maintenance of highly critical IAM solutions for B2B clients (SSO, MFA, SAML/OIDC, Entra ID, PIM/PAM)
- Security administration of Linux systems (CentOS, Red Hat) in Docker and Kubernetes environments
- Migration from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes
- Infrastructure automation with Terraform
- Planning and execution of risk assessments, threat modeling, and compliance reports
- Development and management of B2B applications (Java, REST/SOAP, Angular) and CI/CD pipelines (Python, Ansible, Jenkins, GitLab)
- Leading integration tests and UAT (Cucumber, Selenium, Katalon)
- Implementing monitoring and observability strategies with Grafana, Prometheus, and Splunk
- Integrating SAST tools like Snyk and SonarQube
- Release management and project coordination according to Scrum and SAFe
- Mentoring and technical support of junior team members
Beat Zangger
Last position:
SAP Test Manager at E.ON Grid Solutions GmbH
- Responsible for IT integration test and user acceptance test for SAP S/4 Hana and BDO BO Customer Financials Management
- Led the test team (business testers and IT testers)
- Resource planning and control within the test team
- Created test concepts and test plans
- Performed test risk analysis
- Coordinated test execution and defect tracking
- Ensured test progress
- Generated and visualized reports
- Summarized test reports and reported to management
- Prepared and conducted user acceptance tests
- Managed SIGMA and JIRA/Confluence at project level
Georgios Sfakianakis
Last position:
Senior Software Engineer at UBS Bank
- Implementations of a code refactoring framework able to refactor thousands of repositories leveraging Generative AI
- Use Python (Django, Flask, FastAPI), Java and Typescript in Azure Cloud (Data Lake, VMs, AI) and GitLab infrastructure
- Mentoring and pair programming
- Obtained Azure AI-900 and AI-102 certifications
Christof Hertkorn
Last position:
Test Manager at Planning and Information System
- Integrated Planning and Information System is rolled out and needs to be tested in various configurations and constellations
- Coordination and management of tests at approval, end-to-end, system and system integration levels as well as interface tests
- Development of a test plan according to HERMES standard for agile testing within SAFe/Scrum
- Automated tests developed in Ansible and integrated into a CI/CD GitLab pipeline
- Creation of system, integration, smoke, and end-to-end tests and management in Jira/Xray/Confluence
- Introduced a new review process for testing, leading to a redesigned Jira workflow presented in a cross-department board and released for all departments
- Consulting stakeholders to establish a toolchain for tests, requirements, bugs/defects for both GitLab and Atlassian tools
Tomáš Lukas
Last position:
Senior Network Engineer at Migros
- Support across the entire Migros network
- MPLS, L3/L2, complex BGP network, Checkpoint and Fortinet firewalls/VPN, F5 proxies and load balancers, Cisco WLAN with Prime/CCC and DNAC (the largest in Switzerland), ISE, Bluecat DNS and IPAM, DAMS, PRTG, Git, Ansible, ACI with NCAE and NexusDashboard, SAN
Karl Estermann
Last position:
incl. CI/CD, automation at AALS Software AG
- Designed and delivered a practical real-time course on Flink and Hadoop with MapReduce, HDFS, Spark, Flink, Hive, HBase, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Kafka
- Gained extensive DevOps and CI/CD experience
- Created ETL/ELT pipelines with Apache tools and Pentaho
- Led projects in municipal software, financial services, and big data with Kafka
- Developed AI/NLP models and chatbots with RASA, Chatter, and Dialogflow
- Built and managed a TypeDB knowledge database
- Worked with OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Podman
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Statistics of experts using Ansible
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
24 years
Position duration
2.1 years
Positions per freelancer
12
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Government and Administration, Education
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
88%
Master's degree or higher
38%
Doctorate
13%
Certifications per freelancer
6
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 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.
Average rates of experts in Switzerland using Ansible
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 30 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
About the technology
Infrastructure automation
Ansible is used to define and apply infrastructure changes in a clear, repeatable way. Companies bring it in to install packages, configure services, manage users, and keep servers aligned across staging, production, and hybrid estates. It fits well when manual setup has become slow or inconsistent.
Common deliverables
- Playbooks for provisioning and configuration
- Roles for reusable automation across teams
- Inventory structure for hosts, groups, and environments
- Secrets handling with Ansible Vault
- Integration with CI pipelines and release steps
Ecosystem and tooling
Strong professionals know core Ansible, collections, modules, and the command-line workflow around them. They also work with SSH access, YAML, Git, Jinja2 templates, and cloud or virtualization tooling where automation needs to reach beyond a single system. In Switzerland, they often support mixed environments and teams that need reliable handovers in English and sometimes German or French.
When to bring one in
Companies usually look for freelance expertise when automation has grown messy, documentation is thin, or deployments depend on a few people who know the steps by heart. Ansible specialists help standardize operations, reduce drift, and turn repeated setup work into maintainable code. They are also useful during migrations, audits, and platform rebuilds.
What strong specialists do
A good Ansible professional writes readable playbooks, uses idempotent tasks, and keeps roles small and reusable. They check error handling, variable structure, and naming so other experts can maintain the code later. They also know when to keep automation simple instead of forcing every task into one large runbook.
Typical project fit
- Server and service configuration
- Application deployment support
- Cloud instance bootstrap and day-2 operations
- OS hardening and baseline compliance
- Environment drift cleanup and standardization
In Swiss environments, Ansible is often part of operations, platform engineering, and security work. It is a good fit when teams need predictable changes across many systems without adding heavy tooling. Freelance experts can join remotely for most work, then align on-site when access, rollout planning, or stakeholder reviews need direct coordination.
Frequently asked questions
Not sure where to start with Ansible? These answers cover the essentials.
Ansible is mainly used to automate system setup, configuration, and deployment tasks. Teams use it to keep servers, services, and environment settings consistent without repeating manual work. It is especially useful when the same changes must be applied across many machines or clouds.
Ansible is often chosen for its simple, agentless approach and readable YAML playbooks. Compared with Puppet or Chef, it usually feels lighter to adopt and easier for mixed teams to maintain. Salt can offer more event-driven control, but Ansible is often preferred when clarity and straightforward operations matter more.
A strong Ansible specialist usually knows Linux administration, SSH, Git, YAML, and Jinja2 templating. Cloud platforms, virtualization, and CI/CD pipelines also matter when automation needs to reach beyond configuration alone. For larger environments, experience with inventory design and Ansible Vault is important too.
A small Ansible cleanup or playbook review may need only one specialist with solid operations experience. Larger work, such as platform-wide automation or migration support, often needs someone who has shipped reusable roles and handled production change control. The key is practical delivery, not just familiarity with the tool.
Yes, most Ansible work can be done remotely because it centers on code, inventories, and controlled access. Swiss companies may still ask for on-site time at the start for security, stakeholder alignment, or environment discovery. Remote collaboration works well when access rules and communication are clear.
Look for Ansible code that is readable, repeatable, and easy for other experts to maintain. Good work uses idempotent tasks, clear variable naming, small roles, and sensible error handling. You should also expect documentation that explains how the automation is run and changed.
No, Ansible is not limited to Linux servers. It is widely used there, but it can also manage network gear, cloud resources, Windows systems, and supporting services. The right specialist will know the limits of each target and choose the right modules or approach.
A solid Ansible handover should include playbooks, roles, inventory files, variable structure, and clear notes on how to run and extend the automation. Good specialists also explain dependencies, secrets handling, and common failure points. That makes it easier for your internal team to take over without guesswork.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Switzerland who have used Ansible in their recent projects is 116 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 926 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Switzerland who have used Ansible in their recent projects, 88% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 38% hold at least a Master's degree, and 13% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Switzerland who have used Ansible in their recent projects have 24 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.1 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Ansible in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (36%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Ansible in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Government and Administration (64%), and Education (55%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Ansible in their recent projects are Information Technology (91%), Product Development (91%), and Operations (82%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Ansible
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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