Cloud Migration 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
Vitaly P.
Last position:
IT Project Manager UCC at Office for Informatics, Canton of Zurich
- Collaboration with and deputizing for the service manager for UCC (product owner)
- Interface management for UCC with other functionalities as part of the digital workplace
- Control of infrastructure tests and rollout, monitoring dependencies with other sub-projects
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
Kristian Michael H.
Last position:
Director Global IT at JC Newretail AG / Peek & Cloppenburg Group
- Lead 300+ tech professionals across internal and consulting teams
- Transformed IT into a strategic, product-centric consultancy
- As industry first: Initiated ERP migration SAP → Oracle Fusion
- Implemented AI strategy, built the data science competence and initiated AI pilots
- Established IT Strategy Board aligning technology with business vision and objectives
- Implemented a central and standardised IT vendor management process reducing IT costs by 10%
- Outsourced internal ERP management structure into an external service entity
- Implementation of IT security protocols, standards, trainings and systems
Matthias I.
Last position:
Fractional CTO (Principal Engineer / Technical Architect)
- Designed large-scale systems and APIs serving thousands of concurrent users.
- Refactored a 650k-LOC monolith and led full AWS migration for stable performance.
- Introduced SLO-based observability, improving reliability and recovery flow.
- Optimised cloud and databases, achieving significant cost and latency reduction.
- Delivered LLM, RAG, and document-automation pipelines adopted in production.
Alexander L.
Last position:
Project Manager, Architect at Public Client
- Update from Windows 10 to Windows 11
- Involvement in the design of the new workplace
- Planning and management of the rollout
Jörg Benedikt S.
Last position:
Founder & Managing Director at Schenker Labs GmbH
Applications development & consulting - Schenkerlabs.com
Ned O.
Last position:
Tech Lead at R3leaf GmbH
- Autonomously drafted architecture and delivered production code at startup pace
- Wrangled diverse geospatial formats (NETCDF, GeoTIFF, GML) into unified standards and built scalable climate data visualisations from hundreds of GBs of geodata in a production web app
- Mentored developers, facilitated AI skill sharing, and contributed to competitive strategy with C-Level leadership
Viktors D.
Last position:
IT Consultant at Dundurs Consulting GmbH
- Supporting the implementation of a digitalization project in the area of nutrient balancing
- Analyzing complex business processes and interfaces to surrounding systems (data flows, dependencies)
- Designing processes for data retrieval, storage, and sharing, including plausibility checks and validation logic
- Creating and prioritizing user stories and guiding developers in agile sprints (clarifying acceptance criteria, conducting technical reviews)
- Supporting the Product Owner in defining functional and technical requirements
- Participating in the rollout process and delivering training for stakeholders
- Documenting processes, requirements, and interfaces (including records/changes for releases)
Tomáš L.
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
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Statistics of experts using Cloud Migration
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
19 years
Position duration
2.5 years
Positions per freelancer
11
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Banking and Finance
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Operations
Bachelor's degree or higher
89%
Master's degree or higher
56%
Certifications per freelancer
4
Most common languages
German, English, 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.
Average rates of experts in Switzerland using Cloud Migration
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.
Cloud Migration 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 (100%)
- Professional Services (60%)
- Banking and Finance (50%)
- Energy (40%)
- Manufacturing (40%)
- Telecommunication (40%)
- Insurance (30%)
- Government and Administration (30%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What Cloud Migration Covers
Cloud migration moves applications, data, infrastructure, and operating processes from private data centers or hosted environments into public, private, or hybrid cloud environments. The work can involve a direct relocation, platform modernization, or a staged cloud transformation designed around business priorities. Strong planning protects service continuity while creating a clear path for future change.
Migration Approaches
The right approach depends on application constraints, risk tolerance, and the value of modernization. A professional may combine several patterns across one program:
- Rehost workloads with minimal application changes
- Replatform databases or services for managed cloud offerings
- Refactor selected applications into containers or cloud-native services
- Retire, retain, or replace systems that do not belong in the target environment
Cloud Ecosystem
Cloud Migration work commonly spans AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, along with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD tooling. Specialists assess networking, identity and access management, observability, backup, disaster recovery, and cost controls. They also connect cloud services with existing VMware estates, databases, APIs, security tools, and enterprise applications.
When Companies Need Help
Companies often bring in freelance expertise when a data center contract is changing, an acquisition creates system overlap, or legacy applications limit delivery speed. Swiss organizations may also need support coordinating teams across German-, French-, Italian-, and English-speaking environments. External specialists add focused capacity without slowing internal operations.
- Create an inventory and dependency map
- Define the target landing zone and migration waves
- Test performance, security, recovery, and cutover plans
- Transfer knowledge to internal teams after go-live
Skills That Matter
A strong professional combines infrastructure knowledge with application, data, security, and delivery experience. They can translate business requirements into migration paths, identify hidden dependencies, and automate repeatable tasks with infrastructure as code. Useful adjacent skills include FinOps, DevOps, Kubernetes operations, database administration, identity management, and change planning.
Choosing a Reliable Specialist
Look for evidence of comparable migrations, not just familiarity with a cloud provider. Ask how the specialist handles discovery, rollback, access controls, testing, monitoring, and operational handover. The best professionals explain trade-offs clearly, document decisions, and measure readiness against agreed business and technical criteria before moving production workloads.
Frequently asked questions
The facts hiring teams ask for most often when it comes to Cloud Migration.
Cloud Migration is used to move applications, data, infrastructure, and supporting operations into public, private, or hybrid cloud environments. Companies may migrate to reduce data-center dependencies, improve scalability, modernize legacy systems, or create a stronger foundation for digital products.
Cloud Migration can provide more flexible capacity and access to managed services than a fully on-premises model. It also introduces dependencies on cloud configuration, connectivity, governance, and provider-specific services, so the best choice depends on workload requirements, risk, compliance, and long-term operating plans.
A strong Cloud Migration freelancer may work with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud and understand how their services differ. Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, identity controls, monitoring, and database migration is often important because a move rarely concerns one tool alone.
The required experience depends on the number and complexity of workloads, their dependencies, and the consequences of downtime. A small, isolated application may need focused support, while a regulated enterprise estate benefits from a professional who has handled discovery, staged cutovers, recovery testing, and operational handover.
Much of Cloud Migration can be delivered remotely through secure access, workshops, documentation, and shared delivery tools. On-site sessions can still help with data-center discovery, stakeholder alignment, or sensitive cutovers. Clear access rules and communication in the required business languages should be agreed early.
The main risks include missing application dependencies, weak identity controls, incomplete data validation, unexpected network behavior, and poor rollback planning. Cloud Migration should therefore include discovery, security reviews, testing, recovery procedures, monitoring, and a controlled production cutover.
Ask for a clear explanation of the proposed migration waves, assumptions, risks, and success criteria. A capable Cloud Migration specialist can show how they document dependencies, protect data, test recovery, control access, and transfer operational knowledge instead of focusing only on the technical move.
A Cloud Migration freelancer should clarify the business goals, current environment, target provider, access model, compliance requirements, downtime limits, ownership boundaries, and expected deliverables. They should also confirm who approves migration waves, who operates the target environment, and how issues will be handled after go-live.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Switzerland who have used Cloud Migration in their recent projects is 131 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 1,050 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Switzerland who have used Cloud Migration in their recent projects, 89% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 56% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Switzerland who have used Cloud Migration in their recent projects have 19 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.5 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Cloud Migration in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (60%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Cloud Migration in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Professional Services (60%), and Banking and Finance (50%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Cloud Migration in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (90%), and Operations (80%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Cloud Migration
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