DevOps Experts in Zurich
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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
Milan Simonović
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 Ochsner
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
Peter Wydler
Last position:
IT Consultant at WYP-Consulting
Piotr Seredyn
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 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
Philipp Siegenthaler
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
Daniel Schmidt
Last position:
Senior Manager at devpoint GmbH
- Design and co-implementation of an insolvency management platform in Germany for a client (based on an AI development tool)
- Concept, requirements engineering, and implementation support for a Dubai-based company to integrate processes into a CRM
- Business analysis and requirements engineering at Swisscom for integrations
- Integration of a new knowledge management system into the business processes at Swisscom AG – REST API definition
- Project manager, consultant, and sparring partner for the realignment/process digitalization at GIB Solutions AG
- Process designer and prototype for an AI-based real estate marketing system in Dubai
- Interim head of the ICT department at a telecom company, reorganizing and optimizing processes with a team of 5 at GIB Solutions AG
- Agile requirements engineer / external PO for a web-based solution for the German company DEHN AG
- Project management and consulting for the existing marketing and campaign planning solution at Swisscom AG
- Building the ALoHA nearshore offering at devpoint
Ahmed Rehman
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 Maria Mayer
Last position:
Business Mentor at RoleModel Rebels
- Mentor female students and professionals in advancing their careers, particularly as aspiring tech entrepreneurs.
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
Karim Ismail
Last position:
Test Engineer at Ixtrac AG for Swica
- Building a framework for automated website testing
- Testing, regression testing
- Defect management
- Release management, UAT, agile testing
- Feature discussions with business
- Test management
Dariusz Kaczmarkiewicz
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 Isler
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 Kéri
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
25 years (Switzerland: 23 years)
Position duration
2.2 years (Switzerland: 3.1 years)
Positions per freelancer
13
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
85% (Switzerland: 88%)
Master's degree or higher
50% (Switzerland: 54%)
Doctorate
5%
Certifications per freelancer
3 (Switzerland: 4)
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
100% (Switzerland: 98%)
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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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 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 is the way teams connect software work with operations work. It covers build pipelines, automated testing, release steps, and the controls needed to move changes into production with less manual effort.
Core tooling
Common work often centers on:
- CI/CD pipelines
- Infrastructure as code
- Containers and orchestration
- Monitoring and alerting
- Cloud release setup
Strong specialists know how these parts fit together and how to keep them stable under real load.
Typical projects
Companies bring in freelance experts for new platform setups, pipeline recovery, cloud migration support, and release process cleanup. They also help when teams need better observability, repeatable environments, or a safer path from code to production.
When it matters
DevOps work becomes critical when delivery is slow, releases are risky, or infrastructure depends on manual steps. It also helps when product teams grow faster than operational processes, or when a stack must run across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, or on-prem systems.
What strong experts do
Good DevOps professionals think in systems, not single tools. They write clear automation, document decisions, and reduce fragile handoffs between development, security, and operations.
Zurich context
In Zurich, DevOps specialists are often used by software teams, financial firms, and product companies that need reliable change management and secure deployments. Remote collaboration is common, but on-site work can help during platform reviews, incident follow-up, or sensitive rollout planning.
Frequently asked questions
What clients ask us most about DevOps — answered in short.
DevOps helps teams deliver software with less manual work and fewer release risks. It connects planning, build, test, deployment, and monitoring into one practical flow. Companies use it to speed up delivery, improve reliability, and keep environments consistent.
DevOps is the broader operating approach, while CI/CD is one part of it. Platform engineering often focuses on building internal tools and paved roads for teams, whereas DevOps also includes release process design, automation, and operational feedback loops. In real projects, they often overlap.
A strong DevOps freelancer usually knows cloud infrastructure, containers, scripting, and automation tooling. They should also understand observability, secrets handling, deployment safety, and how to work with developers and security specialists. Clear documentation is a good sign too.
DevOps work often involves Git-based workflows, CI/CD systems, container tooling, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code. Cloud services such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud are common, along with monitoring and log tools. The exact stack depends on how the company ships and runs software.
A DevOps project usually needs outside help when releases are unstable, environments drift, or the team lacks time to modernize tooling. Freelancers are also useful for migrations, incident cleanup, and short-term support during a replatforming effort. If the work affects production, experienced help pays off quickly.
Yes, DevOps work is often remote-friendly because most tasks happen in source control, cloud consoles, and collaboration tools. In Zurich, many teams mix remote work with occasional on-site sessions for planning, access reviews, or incident response. The right setup depends on security and coordination needs.
A good DevOps specialist leaves behind stable automation, clear runbooks, and fewer fragile manual steps. Look for evidence of safe deployments, sensible monitoring, and decisions that fit the company’s scale instead of adding complexity. Strong answers should explain trade-offs, not just list tools.
A DevOps freelancer should ask about the current pipeline, the cloud or hosting setup, release pain points, and who owns production decisions. It also helps to know the security rules, access model, and whether the goal is speed, stability, or both. Good context prevents rework and missed expectations.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used DevOps in their recent projects is 111 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 890 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used DevOps in their recent projects, 85% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 50% hold at least a Master's degree, and 5% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used DevOps in their recent projects have 25 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used DevOps in their recent projects are German (96%), English (96%), and Spanish (28%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used DevOps in their recent projects are Information Technology (92%), Banking and Finance (88%), and Professional Services (64%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Zurich, Switzerland who have used DevOps in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (84%), and Project Management (80%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used DevOps
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