DevOps Experts in Leipzig
in minutes from over 15,000 CVs with the power of AIHire experts who streamline delivery, automate CI/CD, and harden cloud operations across Kubernetes, Terraform, and observability stacks. Get fast, precise matching with vetted, available freelancers.
Meet FRATCH Experts in Leipzig, who have recently used DevOps
Ole Himmel
Last position:
Interim Head of PMO at RAILPOOL GmbH
Due to the steady growth of the customer organization and the associated increase in the number of projects in a wide range of areas, including IT/digitalization, sales and organizational development, and controlling, the demands on the projects are increasing. Projects are often started but not implemented within the planned time frame, resources are not clearly assigned, and the business value is not clearly demonstrated. The goal of the assignment as Interim Head of PMO is to further develop and embed an existing project organization from the CDO area at management level. It is important that the governance is pragmatic, easy to understand, and simple to apply in daily project work. The tasks and roles are to be defined, embedded in the organization, and this strategic PMO is also to be supported by an IT solution. This solution is to be selected and introduced. In addition, all ongoing projects are to be gradually transferred into PMO governance and project control is to be centralized.
Michael Hohlfeld
Last position:
Project Coordinator (Product Development + SaaS) at Ottobock SE & Co. KGaA
As a project coordinator in development projects (consisting of software and hardware), I was responsible in an advisory capacity for creating recommendations and organizational framework conditions in the areas of reporting, project scheduling, progress tracking, resource allocation, and presentation of results.
- Technology stack: Teams, Azure DevOps, Android
- Keywords: software, hardware, AI, MDM, Kanban, requirements specification, functional specification, SaaS, ergonomics, health, medical device
Sebastian Pauer
Last position:
Scrum Master & Agile Coach at HUK-Coburg
Goal: Coach a new agile team to implement and deliver the MVP of an AI-powered digital insurance service.
- Kicked off and coached a new cross-functional agile team as Scrum Master.
- Introduced a new Product Owner to the role with coaching, close collaboration and support with daily operations and backlog management in Jira.
- Facilitated the ideation, design and backlog creation process for the MVP, applying the appropriate tools and techniques (user journey mapping, impact mapping, story mapping, AI prototyping).
- Managed dependencies and impediments across multiple teams, resolving challenges rising from the use of both agile frameworks and traditional project management methodologies.
- Facilitated and supported planning and decision-making activities regarding the MVP delivery (roadmap creation, release planning, test management, translation of user feedback into product decisions)
- Continuously improved processes across multiple agile teams, closely collaborating with other Scrum Masters and cross-team roles (leads, architect, test manager).
- Designed and facilitated in-person and remote workshops as needed across multiple teams (agile practices, problem solving, process improvement, AI powered product development).
Jens Oberender
Last position:
Freelance Java Developer / DevOps Engineer at Unpublished defense company
- Extension of OSGi modules in a complex communication solution
- Debugging communication with Wireshark and remotely in the JENS test environment
- Migration of tests from TestNG to JUnit 5 with Mockito and AssertJ
- Updating vulnerable dependencies and improving code quality
- Changes to the Vaadin frontend
- Increasing test coverage
Benjamin Heunemann
Last position:
Deputy Product Owner/Rollout Manager at Spirit Experts GmbH für Diconium Strategy GmbH
- Acted as product owner for comprehensive change of Confluence permission structure
- Introduced agile routines within the team
- Identified team competencies and created user stories
- Collected and analyzed stakeholder requirements
- Translated business requirements into technical specifications
- Created and maintained requirements documentation
- Analyzed current state and defined goals collaboratively
- Identified and resolved blockers and impediments
- Coordinated with business and product owners
- Facilitated solutions and workarounds
- Established the roadmap and ensured timeline adherence
- Provided continuous reporting to the business owner
- Created a compliance-compliant project framework
- Built and maintained a compliant documentation framework
- Established and maintained a decision log
- Developed technical requirements with regulatory considerations
- Aligned with data security and legal department to set project principles
- Managed stakeholders at C-level and compliance responsibilities
- Developed video content and training materials
- Coordinated ITSM Atlassian Service Management inquiries
- Presented the project to diverse stakeholders in German and English
- Prepared, conducted, and followed up on open Q&A sessions in German and English
- Produced user-friendly instructional materials and interactive training documents
Luis Zermeno
Last position:
Talent Partner + internal AI builder (GTM, DACH/EMEA) at Lucanet AG
- Built an internal AI recruitment assistant (Python, LangChain, Claude API) and deployed it into the team's Greenhouse workflow: automated candidate screening, structured interview-feedback extraction from transcriptions, and comms across high-volume DACH/EMEA GTM pipelines. Scoped the need with TA/GTM leadership, shipped the tool, and drove day-to-day adoption, the same loop a forward-deployed engineer runs at a customer site.
- Led ATS migration from Personio to Greenhouse across the whole team: data model, migration, and team adoption.
- Ran discovery-style intake calls translating vague requests ("we need someone senior for Italy") into structured requirements, the muscle a forward-deployed engineer uses to scope a customer deployment. 80%+ offer acceptance, ~120% of quarterly targets. Discovery and delivery in EN, DE, ES, FR.
Peter Teich
Last position:
Freelance Go-Developer/DevOps-Engineer at IONOS SE
- Implementation of an API for customers to provide NFS shares in the cloud
- Creating Kubernetes operators and services with REST APIs in Go
- Using LinuxKit for provisioning VMs
Gwen Glaser
Last position:
Senior Ruby on Rails & DevOps Developer at Sapiens
Further development of a software solution for managing test requests and test notifications according to §106d SGB V for the Hamburg Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians.
- Developed numerous features, performance optimizations, refactoring, error analysis
- Refactored the dev container setup
- Optimized the GitLab CI build pipeline
- Contributed optimizations to the team workflow
Lucas Jahn
Last position:
Full-Stack Developer (WordPress, React.js) at Rabot Energy
Norbert Stein
Last position:
Technical training & open-source work at Personal Project
- training and official certification as Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
- open-source development and documentation in a personal project
- keeping updated about cloud native and AI technologies through courses and books
- Tech: Kubernetes, Docker, Typescript, Node.js
Mostafa Shawki
Last position:
Freelance Senior Software Engineer & AI Consultant at Self-employed
- Led the development of a complex geospatial data platform, engineering an end-to-end system for processing and analyzing high-resolution aerial imagery.
- Engineered a scalable backend responsible for on-the-fly map tile serving and running complex data analysis queries using PostGIS and Python.
- Developed and trained custom computer vision models using Python, PyTorch, and YOLOv8 to perform object detection and segmentation on large-scale datasets.
- Built modern, responsive user interfaces and data visualization dashboards using Next.js, TypeScript, and React.
- Gained practical expertise in geospatial libraries such as GDAL and Rasterio for processing and manipulating raster and vector data.
- Managed the entire project lifecycle, from initial technical architecture and database design to final deployment using Docker.
Jan Beckert
Last position:
API-Engineer at Freelance
- API-first product design (OpenAPI 3, HAL) and development (NodeJS)
- Setting up DevOps pipelines with GitHub Actions in an AWS architecture
- Technologies: OpenAPI 3, REST, HAL, NodeJS, JavaScript, TypeScript, AWS, AWS Lambda, Docker, GitHub Actions
Hannes Witt
Last position:
intermedix GmbH / CGM Deutschland AG
Rule-based software for managing, planning and delivering marketing materials in the pharmaceutical industry
High performance, high availability
Fullstack, DevOps (CI/CD)
Python, PostgreSQL, Vue.js, TypeScript, Docker, Docker Compose, Nginx
Successfully migrated old Excel-based processes into an optimized product that has been in production since 2024
Sebastián Katzer
Last position:
Smart Charging at Mercedes-Benz, MBTI
Agile software development in an interdisciplinary environment
Cross-team collaboration to achieve important milestones
Independently developing new and improving existing features
Estimation, refinement, implementation, and presentation
Finding solution ideas, analyzing problems, rolling out bug fixes
Writing automated tests, manual testing, log and error analysis
Ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability of the production environment
Rolling out releases and multi-stage infrastructure
Setting up alerts and monitoring
Pair programming, code reviews, documentation
On-call duty, 3rd level support
Event-Driven Architecture, Clean Code, Hexagonal Architecture
Microservices based on Go (Gin), Java 21 (Spring Boot 3), Python (FastAPI)
Terraform/OpenTofu, KQL, SQL, JSON, REST, Helm, ArgoCD, AzureCLI, K9s, OAuth2
Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Azure EventHub, Kubernetes, nginx, Ingress
AppInsights, LogAnalytics, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, OpenAPI 3, Swagger
Azure DataExplorer, Storage, KeyVault, Container Registry, Azure Functions,…
Junit5/Jupiter, testify, RestAssured, Docker Compose, Wiremock
IntelliJ, Scrum, Kanban, Teams, Confluence, OpsGenie, Arc42
GitHub CI/CD, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps
EV charging protocols (EVSE, OCPP, V1G, V2G)
Tom Cernohorsky
Last position:
Web Developer at Puder + Consortio; Feldenkrais Verena Tintelnot; Maxim Gorki Theater; Grunwald & Grundwald Architektur und Städtebau; Wanderkino
- Implementation and updates of various websites for:
- Puder + Consortio
- Feldenkrais Verena Tintelnot
- "Mely Kiyak hat Kunst" at the Maxim Gorki Theater
- Grunwald & Grundwald Architektur und Städtebau
- Wanderkino
Discover over 15,000 top freelancers
Statistics of experts using DevOps
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
18 years
Position duration
1.7 years (Germany: 2.9 years)
Positions per freelancer
14 (Germany: 12)
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Retail
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
93% (Germany: 91%)
Master's degree or higher
57% (Germany: 55%)
Doctorate
7% (Germany: 8%)
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
English, German, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
100% (Germany: 97%)
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 Leipzig 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 Leipzig using DevOps
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
Delivery flow
DevOps brings development and operations together so software can move from code to production with less friction. It is used for CI/CD, infrastructure automation, release coordination, and reliable cloud operations. Companies hire specialists when delivery slows down or handoffs create risk.
Core stack
Typical work spans Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes. Strong professionals also understand cloud services, monitoring, secret handling, and rollback design. They make the toolchain fit the product, not the other way around.
Typical work
- Design CI/CD pipelines
- Automate infrastructure and environments
- Improve deployment safety and recovery
- Set up logging, metrics, and alerts
- Reduce manual release work
When to bring help
Freelance DevOps expertise is useful when a team is moving to cloud-native delivery, splitting a monolith, or stabilizing a fragile release process. It also helps during audits, platform changes, or urgent incidents. In Leipzig, companies often want specialists who can work with German-speaking teams on site or remotely.
What good looks like
Strong DevOps professionals write clear pipelines, keep config repeatable, and think in systems rather than single tools. They understand security, testing, and runtime behavior, and they can explain trade-offs without jargon. The best experts leave behind clean automation that the team can own.
Team fit
DevOps work touches product, engineering, operations, and security. A good specialist knows how to collaborate with each group, document changes, and keep delivery predictable. That matters when a company needs a practical setup that can grow without constant firefighting.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers to the questions that come up most around DevOps.
DevOps is the way teams connect software delivery and operations so releases are automated, repeatable, and easier to support. In practice, that usually means CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, deployment controls, and monitoring. It is less about a tool and more about how the delivery process is run.
A strong DevOps setup often includes Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes. The exact stack depends on the cloud, the release flow, and how much automation already exists. Good specialists choose tools that fit the team’s way of working.
DevOps is broader than Kubernetes or any single cloud topic. Kubernetes may be one part of the runtime, while DevOps covers the pipeline, provisioning, release safety, observability, and operational feedback loop. If a project only needs one area, a narrower specialist may be enough.
A strong DevOps specialist usually knows Linux, networking basics, scripting, cloud services, security practices, and observability tools. They should also understand version control, testing, and how applications behave in production. Those skills are what make automation reliable instead of fragile.
The right DevOps profile depends on the task. A small pipeline cleanup may need someone focused on CI/CD and automation, while a platform redesign needs broader experience with cloud architecture, security, and rollout strategy. The more production risk involved, the more important depth becomes.
Most DevOps work can be done remotely because pipelines, infrastructure, and monitoring are digital by nature. On-site time can help during incident response, stakeholder workshops, or when a company wants close collaboration with local teams in Leipzig. Many projects use a mix of both.
Look for clear examples of automation, deployment reliability, and incident reduction in previous work with DevOps. Good answers should explain trade-offs, not just list tools. Ask how they handle rollback, secrets, observability, and handover to the team.
Freelancers working in DevOps usually want to know the current toolchain, the level of access they will get, and whether the main goal is speed, stability, or a migration. They also need to understand team structure, release pain points, and who owns the system after the project. Clear scope makes the work smoother for everyone.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used DevOps in their recent projects is 93 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 741 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used DevOps in their recent projects, 93% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 57% hold at least a Master's degree, and 7% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used DevOps in their recent projects have 18 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.7 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used DevOps in their recent projects are English (100%), German (93%), and Spanish (20%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used DevOps in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Professional Services (53%), and Retail (53%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Leipzig, Germany who have used DevOps in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (100%), and Project Management (67%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used DevOps
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.
Request a free demo
Get in touch with the FRATCH team and we will get back to you within 4 hours.
Would you rather directly get in touch?
We always have the time for a call or email!

Berlin
Hamburg
Munich
Cologne
Frankfurt
Stuttgart
Dusseldorf
Dortmund
Essen
Dresden
Hanover
Nuremberg