AWS Elastic Load Balancing Experts in Germany
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Germany, who have recently used AWS Elastic Load Balancing
Sabahattin Kunas
Last position:
Sole responsibility (concept, development, infrastructure, operations) at Own project busik.ch
- Ride-sharing and bus platform, live and working. Backend Spring Boot 4.1 on Java 21, PostgreSQL with Flyway, Testcontainers integration tests. Running in my own AWS account (ECS Fargate, ALB, ECR, IAM least privilege) with CI/CD via GitHub Actions and OIDC federation without static credentials. Development throughout AI-assisted with Claude Code, including my own skills and project-specific memory. Spring Boot · Java 21 · PostgreSQL · Flyway · Docker · AWS ECS/ALB/ECR · CI/CD · GitHub Actions · Claude Code
Ali Aminian
Last position:
Platform Engineer & Software Architect at Yatta GmbH
- Architected the Yatta Integration Layer – a config-driven integration platform on Java 25, Spring Boot 4 (WebFlux), Temporal, gRPC and Kafka, enabling new third-party integrations (e.g. AVS fulfillment) via declarative JSON configs with zero code changes.
- Designed and implemented Tink integration with 0Auth IBAN verification to enhance fraud prevention and account validation workflows with Adyen payByBank.
- Architected and implemented an OpenFGA-based authorization model for centralized management of users, groups, and fine-grained access control in the vendor portal.
- Architected and led delivery of the Yatta API Gateway platform using GraphQL Federation, providing a unified enterprise API layer across distributed microservices with centralized authentication, authorization and request orchestration.
- Replaced NGINX + NLB with Istio service mesh and AWS ALB; rolled out WAF, OAuth (Cognito), IP whitelisting and RBAC across environments.
- Migrated CDC from Confluent Cloud connectors to a self-hosted Kafka Connect + Debezium stack, reducing operational cost by ~80% across multiple environments.
- Implemented the Transactional Outbox pattern with Debezium for reliable, exactly-once event publishing to Kafka with Avro and Schema Registry.
- Migrated dunning/payment-recovery workflows from Airflow to Temporal, achieving 99.9% reliability for settlement handling.
- Optimised Apache Airflow with deferrable sensors to handle 1000+ concurrent DAG runs without scaling the worker pool.
- Refactored a monolithic Terraform codebase into 3 modular projects, cutting deployment time by ~45%.
- Stood up full observability with OpenTelemetry, Tempo, Prometheus and Loki; automated dev/staging/prod with ArgoCD, Image Updater and Helm.
- Collaborated with product, operations and engineering stakeholders to define scalable platform architecture and integration standards aligned with long-term business and operational goals.
Khaled Massad
Last position:
Principal Cloud Solutions Architect II at Schrödinger GmbH
- Understand the customer’s business & technical requirements and translate them into system / technical requirements
- Design and implement Schrodinger’s applications on cloud systems, and experience convincing senior management and senior technical staff of the benefits of their journey with Schrodinger on the cloud
- Provide exceptional technical design and thought leadership, especially around AWS, GCP, and K8s architecture reviews, performance, high availability, cost, and security
- Deep understanding of the Well-Architected pillars and all best practices for building a secure, performant Schrodinger’s applications on the cloud platforms
- Lead technical workshops and advise customers on architectural and strategic IT decisions
- Ensure success in designing, building and migrating applications, software, and services on the cloud platforms
- Educate customers on best practices to ensure their solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
- Work with other team members to ensure quality and customer success
- Define the tickets, tasks, and timelines of projects
- Collaborate with account managers to ensure that the projects are executed according to the defined plan and timeline
- Monitor the progress of the projects, identify risks and issues, and take proactive measures to mitigate them
- Lead and inspire cloud architect teams, provide guidance, and make critical decisions
- Facilitate effective communication and collaboration among team members
- Collaborate with Schrodinger’s managers to improve deployment, support, and configuration of Schrodinger’s applications
- Lead weekly standups and define priorities
Moritz Freyburger
Last position:
AWS Developer/DevOps Engineer (Energy Trading) at RWE Supply & Trading GmbH
- Further development and partial new development of a distributed cloud application for providing data in energy trading
- Independent implementation of the infrastructure (IaC)
- Creation of automated CI/CD pipelines, containers, REST APIs, and Lambdas
- Continuous cost and performance optimization
- Collaboration in an international Scrum team and with experts in energy trading
- Technologies: C#/ASP.NET Core; EF Core; PostgreSQL; Terraform/AWS CloudFormation; HTTP; REST/Web API; Swagger/OpenAPI; Azure DevOps; Rider; VS Code; git; Docker; AWS (S3, EC2, Fargate, Lambda, Step Functions, Secrets Manager, VPCs, ALB/NLB, RDS, Cloudwatch, AWS CLI, Amazon MQ); Redis; OAuth; OpenID Connect
- Languages: C#; TypeScript; HCL; Docker; Bash; PowerShell; YML; JSON
Robin Sadlo
Last position:
Senior Cloud & Backend Engineer at Media-Saturn-Holding GmbH
- Implementing applications with Kotlin and Ktor as microservices
- Using MongoDB in the MongoDB Atlas cloud
- Asynchronous communication of services via Google Pub/Sub
- Using Kotest and MockK for unit tests
- Developing an administration frontend with TypeScript, React and Express.js
- Provisioning environments in GCP using Terraform
- Implementing CI/CD processes with GitHub Actions
- Operating scalable production and test environments in GCP with Kubernetes, Helm and Flux CD
- Monitoring environments with Prometheus and Grafana
- Providing BI data in the Google BigQuery data warehouse
Florian Lehmann
Last position:
Interim Head of Transformation at TOMRA Systems ASA
- Strategic Transformation & Value Creation: Initiated and implemented a company-wide transformation program to establish a scalable, process-oriented organization. Focus on strategic agility, cost leadership and long-term financial resilience in a volatile market environment.
- Operational Excellence & Digitalization: Introduced digital management tools and automation initiatives to improve efficiency and speed up decision-making. Designed a modern operating model to promote data-driven leadership and transparency across the value chain.
- Finance, Controlling & Performance Management: Built an integrated finance and controlling framework with clear KPI structures to manage profitability, OPEX and cash flow. Developed a rolling forecast model and established robust reporting mechanisms as a basis for strategic decisions at the C-level.
- Working Capital, Liquidity Management & Treasury: Optimized working capital and managed the cash conversion cycle through targeted measures in inventory, receivables and payables management. Established an integrated treasury architecture for active liquidity planning and strengthening financial flexibility.
- Global Integration & ERP Transformation: Led the global harmonization of systems and processes by implementing a scalable ERP platform. Promoted synergies and transparency across borders to strengthen the global finance architecture.
- Growth Strategy, Efficiency Improvement & Executive Sparring: Responsible for designing and implementing group-wide initiatives for cost reduction, efficiency gains and sustainable growth, directly impacting EBITDA and overall financial performance. Worked closely on developing and executing investment strategies, resource allocation and transformation priorities to strengthen long-term competitiveness and return on capital.
Jorge Pérez Suárez
Last position:
Software Engineer – AWS and Kubernetes Specialist at Citti
- Creation, maintenance and hardening of Kubernetes clusters employing Ansible and ArgoCD
- Keywords: Ansible, AWX, Kubernetes, NetApp, Prometheus, CI/CD ArgoCD, SSO, Fluent-bit, HAProxy, Calico, Keycloak, oauth2-proxy, SealedSecrets, kubeseal, Aqua kube-bench, CIS-Benchmarks, Aqua Trivy operator
Benjamin Schaich
Last position:
Design and implementation of a new cloud service at Porsche AG
- Design of a new cloud service
- Requirements Engineering
- API Design (REST API, Kafka)
- Consulting on architecture, feasibility and effort estimation
- Implementation of a microservice architecture
- Implementation of a Spring Boot web service
- Development of REST APIs including business and persistence logic
- Kafka consumers and producers
- Various Excel upload/download scenarios
- Change Data Capture
- Cloud provisioning with IaC/Terraform
- Go-live with 30,000 users
- Operation, support and bug fixing for other services
Environment/tools: GitLab, JIRA, Confluence, IntelliJ, Spring Boot, Java, Docker, Terraform, AWS ECS, Postgres, Apache Kafka, SAP Datasphere, JUnit, Debezium, Apache POI, Hibernate, JPA, Testcontainers
Ales Loncar
Last position:
Senior DevOps Consultant (Freelance) at European Union Agency (via IBM)
- Worked as freelance Senior DevOps Consultant on-site for IBM at a European Union Agency, operating in a highly secure, air-gapped environment managing classified systems.
- Led automation and DevOps initiatives for a large-scale OpenShift platform (>400 nodes), driving deployment efficiency, GitOps adoption, and operational automation using Ansible, Python, and Bash while ensuring compliance with security requirements.
- Spearheaded automation of release and deployment workflows in a private cloud environment hosting 400+ OpenShift nodes, significantly improving deployment speed and reliability.
- Migrated existing playbooks, roles, and templates from Ansible Tower to Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), ensuring full compliance with fully-qualified collection names (FQCN) and preparing custom Execution Environments (EE) for containerized automation.
- Implemented GitOps Agent for AAP Controller Configuration as Code, enabling automated synchronization (CRUD) of Ansible Controller objects based on repository-stored configuration definitions using GitHub webhooks.
- Designed and automated complex multi-step operational workflows including environment cleanup, Helix cluster component re-creation, Kafka topic management, and OpenShift object lifecycle management across ~100 environments.
- Achieved a reduction of multi-day manual operations to under a few hours through automation improvements spanning multiple AAP clusters and OpenShift environments.
- Integrated Ansible Automation Platform with Thycotic (Delinea) Secret Server via lookup plugin to enhance secure credential management in automated processes.
- Managed deployment tasks, platform troubleshooting, and Istio network configurations while adhering to stringent EU PSC security and compliance standards.
- Collaborated with infrastructure and application teams to refine deployment procedures, develop naming conventions, and continuously improve automation coverage in an air-gapped, classified environment.
Michael König
Last position:
Atruvia AG
- Further development of framework components and services in the Enterprise Banking Control Platform (EGP Framework), a set of cross-cutting libraries and services for all bounded context scopes of the platform.
- Migration from Java 17 to Java 21 and from Spring Boot 3.2 to 3.4 in about 80 library and service repositories (updating Maven POMs, Dockerfiles, Jenkins pipelines, source code migration, test updates).
- Writing unit and integration tests with JUnit and JGiven.
- Performing and analyzing performance measurements with Dynatrace.
- Enhancing multi-stage CI/CD pipelines (unit tests, security analyses, Docker builds, Harbor deployments, ...).
- Tech stack used: Java (90%), Python (10%), Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate, JGiven, OpenAPI, Camunda 7, Podman, OpenShift/Kubernetes, Oracle DB, SonarQube, Dynatrace, Jenkins, Harbor, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence.
Tomas Stiller
Last position:
Co-Founder & CTO at Printkiss GmbH & Co. KG
- Agile app development and product ownership in e-commerce
- Feature planning and creating user stories
- Organizing external freelancers (cross-functional teams)
- Backend and frontend development
- Story mapping
- Backlog management
- Roadmap planning
- Budget control and capacity planning
Daniel Boesswetter
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 Federal Environment Agency 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
Santosh Kumar
Last position:
AWS Devops Engineer at ETAS GmbH
- Designed and provisioned full AWS infrastructure using Terraform, implementing containerized solutions with Docker Swarm and Kubernetes for scalability and reliability.
- Built multi-environment CI/CD pipelines (Prod, Staging, Test) using Jenkins, GitLab CI, and Maven for automated builds, tests, and deployments.
- Configured secure networking with VPCs, subnets, security groups, NAT gateways, and routing for high availability.
- Integrated Prometheus, Alert Manager, and Grafana for real-time monitoring and proactive incident response.
- Orchestrated deployment of microservices with Helm, ensuring zero-downtime releases and fast rollback capabilities.
- Mentored junior DevOps engineers on best practices in IaC, Terraform, AWS security, and container management.
Nils Meyer
Last position:
Database Architecture for PostgreSQL at ComputaCenter / Deutsche
- Planning and documentation of database architecture and integration with other components provided by other teams and vendors
- Extensive documentation for the architecture, security, access control, encryption, roles and user management, backup and restore, disaster recovery and general operations
- Deployment of database clusters over 2 locations with 2 availability zones each
- Automation of deployment and operations including backup using Ansible
- Hardening of the database and operating system
- Migration of existing stand-alone database systems to cluster setup
- Technologies: PostgreSQL, Patroni, etcd, barman, RedHat Enterprise Linux 9 (RHEL), Ansible, Ansible Automation Platform, TLS, Hashicorp Vault, LUKS
Nico Saueressig
Last position:
Freelance Software Engineer at HL Design
- Implementing new features using best practices for a long running e-commerce and content management platform used by a large variety of different customers.
- Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Ruby, REST, PostgreSQL, TDD, RSpec, Testing
- Domain: e-commerce, CMS
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Statistics of experts using AWS Elastic Load Balancing
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
19 years
Position duration
2 years
Positions per freelancer
13
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Automotive
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Operations
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
38%
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
English, German, 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 Germany 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 Germany using AWS Elastic Load Balancing
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
Traffic control
AWS Elastic Load Balancing, often called ELB, distributes incoming traffic across healthy AWS targets. It helps keep applications available, smooth out spikes, and avoid single points of failure. Teams use it for public web apps, APIs, internal services, and multi-AZ setups.
Core types
- Application Load Balancer for HTTP and HTTPS routing
- Network Load Balancer for low-latency TCP and UDP traffic
- Gateway Load Balancer for appliance-based traffic flows
- Classic Load Balancer for legacy workloads that still depend on it
What specialists do
Strong professionals work on listener rules, target groups, health checks, TLS certificates, and path-based routing. They also align ELB with Auto Scaling, ECS, EKS, EC2, and private or public subnets. That keeps traffic handling predictable under load.
When to bring in help
Companies usually need freelance expertise when an environment is growing, migrating, or failing under real traffic. Common signs include slow failover, broken health checks, confusing routing, or uneven traffic split between targets. ELB experience also helps during security reviews and architecture cleanups.
Ecosystem skills
- AWS IAM, VPC, security groups, and route tables
- CloudWatch logs and metrics for diagnosis
- DNS and AWS Route 53 for clean traffic entry
- Certificate handling for HTTPS and mTLS patterns
- Terraform or CloudFormation for repeatable setup
Germany projects
In Germany, these specialists often support SaaS products, e-commerce stores, media platforms, and regulated enterprise systems that need stable delivery across regions. Remote work is common, but on-site sessions can help during architecture workshops or incident reviews. Clear English is usually enough; German helps when the wider team expects it.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers to the questions that come up most around AWS Elastic Load Balancing.
AWS Elastic Load Balancing spreads incoming requests across multiple healthy targets in AWS. It is used to keep web apps, APIs, and internal services reachable when traffic changes or a target fails. ELB is a core part of resilient AWS architecture.
AWS Elastic Load Balancing includes different load balancer types for different needs. Application Load Balancer fits HTTP and HTTPS routing, Network Load Balancer fits fast TCP or UDP traffic, and Classic Load Balancer is mainly for older setups. A good specialist chooses based on protocol, routing needs, and target type.
A strong AWS Elastic Load Balancing specialist understands VPC design, security groups, target groups, TLS, health checks, and AWS monitoring. They should also know how ELB works with Auto Scaling, ECS, EKS, and EC2. Terraform or CloudFormation is a plus when the setup must be repeatable.
Elastic Load Balancing work can be simple or highly detailed. A small routing fix may need only one focused specialist, while a migration, multi-account setup, or incident recovery needs deeper AWS architecture experience. The key is proven work on live traffic, not just lab knowledge.
Look for clear decisions, not just AWS jargon. A strong AWS Elastic Load Balancing professional explains why they chose a listener rule, health check, or target group design, and how it affects resilience and cost. They should also know how to test failover and verify logs and metrics.
Most ELB work can be done remotely because the setup lives in AWS and can be reviewed through diagrams, logs, and configuration. On-site time can help when teams need fast alignment on network boundaries, release processes, or incident response. For Germany-based teams, mixed remote collaboration is common.
AWS Elastic Load Balancing is for traffic distribution and health-based routing, while a reverse proxy or API gateway may add request transformation, auth, or API policy features. In many systems they work together rather than replace each other. The right choice depends on where routing ends and application control begins.
No. Elastic Load Balancing also supports internal services, private APIs, and backend traffic between AWS components. Many teams use it to separate front-end access from internal service traffic while keeping the same AWS patterns for health checks and failover.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used AWS Elastic Load Balancing in their recent projects is 108 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 860 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used AWS Elastic Load Balancing in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 38% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used AWS Elastic Load Balancing in their recent projects have 19 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used AWS Elastic Load Balancing in their recent projects are English (100%), German (94%), and French (22%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used AWS Elastic Load Balancing in their recent projects are Information Technology (94%), Banking and Finance (56%), and Automotive (50%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used AWS Elastic Load Balancing in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (83%), and Operations (78%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used AWS Elastic Load Balancing
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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