DevOps Experts in Zurich
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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.
Robin O.
Last position:
Co-Founder & AI Solutions Architect at airdys
- Product strategy, architecture, and technical co-direction
- AI workshops, client onboarding and go-to-market activities
- Design and implementation of AI architectures (LLMs, RAG, MCP, agents, voice, automation)
- Hands-on development of prototypes and production-ready AI integrations
- Consulting clients on AI adoption, workflows, and integration into existing infrastructure
- Collaboration with co-founders on strategic direction
- Collaboration in sales and customer acquisition
Tools and Technologies: OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, Vercel AI SDK, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), MCP (Model Context Protocol), FastAgent, VAPI, n8n, make.com, LibreChat, PostgreSQL, OpenAPI, Next.js, Vercel, Docker
Piotr S.
Last position:
CTO Program Manager, Theme Owner / Senior Project Manager at Avaloq Group AG
- Clients: Central banks of the most developed economies in the world, German, Swiss, Luxembourgish, Monegasque, Singaporean, Japanese wealth managers and universal/private banks, world’s largest investment banks
- Accountable for managing the delivery of a portfolio of digital wealth and consumer relationship management initiatives
- Project managing portfolios of projects within CTO product and technology business area (cyber security, architectural changes, re-organisational transformation, 3rd party apps)
- Products: Kernel & Parametrisation for Core Avaloq Banking Platform; modules: CRM, client data management, wealth management, portfolio management (generating over 90% of company revenues)
- Key responsibilities:
- Reporting to Head of Disruptive Innovation Division; stakeholder to five product owners & two domain owners
- Accountable for delivery of annual themes and quarterly key deliverables
- Managing demand vs supply via QBR process: book of work, execution, reporting, risk management
- Directly managing around 40 external consultants (front-end/back-end engineers, BAs, designers)
- Hiring and managing resources in eight countries
- Running quarterly divisional closure meetings presenting achievements and challenges
- Resolving cross-team dependencies and internal/external conflicts
- Owning and controlling maintenance budget; planning, forecasting, execution; ensuring demand matches supply
- Identifying and staffing key roles with chapter leads
- Approach: Agile, Scrum of Scrums, QBR/OKRs
- Technology: Angular, PL/SQL, JavaScript, Confluence, JIRA (JQL)
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
Philipp S.
Last position:
Equity Portfolio Manager - Digital Wealth Management at Interactive Brokers LLC
- Solely responsible for two portfolios totaling USD 1 million with an average monthly performance of 2%
- Responsible for the investment strategy, specializing in US equities and ETFs (exchanges: NASDAQ and NYSE)
- Market, trend, data, and technical chart analysis
- Risk management – diversification, daily/weekly risk mitigation measures (rebalancing) to ensure optimal portfolio profitability
Ahmed R.
Last position:
AI & Automation Engineer at Teosek GmbH
- Build prototypes, expand AI skills, and practical application in a startup context.
- Transition phase: further training in prompt engineering, APIs, AI, working on independent prototype projects, and collaborating at a friend's startup.
- Technologies: LangChain, REST, Python, Java, JS, TS, Node.
Ursula M.
Last position:
Business Mentor at RoleModel Rebels
- Mentor female students and professionals in advancing their careers, particularly as aspiring tech entrepreneurs.
Peter S.
Last position:
Web Application Developer PHP / WordPress Plugin Development at Gemeinde Bauma
- Analysis, consulting, and development of a WordPress application for the digital processing and delivery of the Bauma chronicle archive
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
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
Dariusz K.
Last position:
Business System Analyst at Zurich Insurance
Participating in a strategic enterprise project to introduce a centralized customer data platform ("Single Source of Truth") to eliminate redundant data storage and accelerate digital services
Analyzing and documenting business and system requirements for migrating large, heterogeneous data sets (ETL) and for continuous data synchronization between core systems and the new platform
Close collaboration with business units, data engineers and architects to gather and validate requirements, and to ensure data quality, consistency and regulatory compliance
Defining the migration strategy, specifying ETL processes and synchronization mechanisms, and documenting technical interfaces
Developing and executing test cases for migration and synchronization processes, and performing defect analysis to ensure data integrity and system stability
Technologies: SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Azure DevOps, Confluence, UML, RESTful Services, Swagger, Postman
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.
Csaba K.
Last position:
ServiceNow Consultant at DXC
- Worked in mixed teams with several clients
- Performed requirement engineering, proposal and time estimation
- Developed ACLs, business rules, flows, workflows, catalog items, various scripts, UI actions, policies, scoped applications
- Customized mobile apps: Now Agent and Now Mobile
- Implemented integrations using the Integration Hub
- Coordinated continuously with clients during development
- Performed testing and helped clients with testing
- Deployed to production and applied main version upgrades and patches
- Managed CMDB, domain separation and asset management
- Integrated between instances at different clients
- Developed GlideScript: business rules, scripted REST endpoints, extension points, fix scripts, background scripts
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Statistics of experts using DevOps
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
24 years (Switzerland: 23 years)
Position duration
2 years (Switzerland: 3 years)
Positions per freelancer
13 (Switzerland: 15)
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
89% (Switzerland: 88%)
Master's degree or higher
61% (Switzerland: 58%)
Doctorate
11% (Switzerland: 8%)
Certifications per freelancer
4
Most common languages
English, German, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
100% (Switzerland: 98%)
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 Zurich 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 Zurich 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 19 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
DevOps 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 (91%)
- Banking and Finance (86%)
- Professional Services (59%)
- Insurance (50%)
- Retail (50%)
- Education (45%)
- Government and Administration (41%)
- Telecommunication (36%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What DevOps covers
DevOps combines software delivery, infrastructure operations and shared ownership of production systems. It helps teams move from manual handovers to repeatable processes for building, testing, releasing and monitoring applications. The approach supports cloud services, internal platforms and customer-facing products.
Systems and outcomes
DevOps work creates the foundation for stable digital services and faster, safer releases. Specialists connect development workflows with infrastructure, security and operational feedback.
- Automated build, test and deployment pipelines
- Scalable cloud and hybrid infrastructure
- Infrastructure defined and managed as code
- Monitoring, logging and incident response workflows
Ecosystem and tooling
The ecosystem spans source control, CI/CD, containers, orchestration and cloud platforms. Common tools include Git, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible and Helm. Strong professionals also work with Linux, networking, secrets management and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry.
When companies need specialists
Companies bring in freelance DevOps expertise when releases are slow, environments differ, or production issues are difficult to trace. A specialist can establish delivery standards, modernise infrastructure, prepare a migration or support a platform team during a critical project. Zurich organisations often need professionals who can work remotely while coordinating clearly with local product, security and operations teams.
Skills beyond automation
Effective DevOps requires more than configuring tools. Professionals assess architecture, access controls, reliability, cost and team workflows before choosing an implementation. They should be comfortable with cloud services, scripting, containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, testing, security controls and incident management.
- Design environments that can be reproduced safely
- Set practical release, rollback and recovery processes
- Explain operational risks to technical and business stakeholders
- Document systems so internal teams can maintain them
Choosing the right professional
Look for evidence of production ownership rather than a long list of tools. Ask how the professional handled failed deployments, service outages, secrets, capacity changes and handover. A strong specialist measures improvement through dependable delivery, useful alerts, clear runbooks and safer change—not automation for its own sake.
Frequently asked questions
What clients ask us most about DevOps — answered in short.
DevOps is used to connect software development with infrastructure and operations. It supports automated testing and releases, reproducible environments, cloud platform management, monitoring, incident response and continuous improvement.
DevOps replaces many manual handovers with shared ownership, automation and rapid feedback. Traditional operations may manage releases separately, while DevOps brings delivery, security and reliability concerns into the same workflow.
A strong DevOps specialist usually brings Linux, networking, scripting, cloud services and infrastructure as code. Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, security and incident management is also valuable.
The right level depends on the system’s risk, scale and starting point. DevOps work for a simple pipeline may need focused delivery experience, while regulated production platforms require a professional who has owned reliability, security and recovery in comparable environments.
Yes, much DevOps work can be done remotely because infrastructure, repositories and monitoring tools are accessible online. Clear documentation, secure access and regular coordination matter, especially when teams in Zurich need occasional on-site workshops.
A DevOps engagement should leave behind working automation, documented infrastructure and clear operating procedures. Depending on the brief, deliverables may include CI/CD pipelines, deployment templates, dashboards, alert rules, runbooks and a structured handover.
Ask a DevOps professional to explain trade-offs, failure handling and the maintenance plan behind their work. Quality shows in reproducible environments, meaningful alerts, controlled access, safe rollback paths and documentation that another team can use.
DevOps is a broad way of organising collaboration, automation and operational responsibility. Platform engineering focuses on reusable internal services, while SRE applies reliability practices and measurable service objectives; projects may use all three approaches together.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used DevOps in their recent projects is 106 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 846 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used DevOps in their recent projects, 89% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 61% hold at least a Master's degree, and 11% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used DevOps in their recent projects have 24 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used DevOps in their recent projects are English (100%), German (95%), and Spanish (32%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used DevOps in their recent projects are Information Technology (91%), Banking and Finance (86%), and Professional Services (59%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used DevOps in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (91%), and Project Management (82%).
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