Grafana Expert in Austria
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John Ampia-Addison
Last position:
Software Developer and DevOps Engineer at Bundesrechenzentrum (BRZ)
Refactoring and improving core APIs; implementing client change requests. Setting up metrics, traces, and logs monitoring infrastructure to support operations. Designing GitOps deployment and infrastructure as code. Applications and Systems Configuration in ArgoCD and Openshift. Confluence documentation of design, approach, and solution. Tech Stack: Java 8 & 21, Spring framework, JSP, Javascript, Bash Scripts, SQL, Grafana Stack, Opentelemetry, Docker, DB2, Maven, Kubernetes Kompose.
Alexander Vasilenko
Last position:
Senior Cloud & Kubernetes Architect at A.S.E. | Business Solutions for Construction
- Architected and deployed a highly available, multi-tenant Kubernetes platform on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for business-critical microservices.
- Designed and implemented a comprehensive Infrastructure-as-Code strategy using Terraform for managing GKE clusters, networking (VPCs, Subnets), and IAM policies.
- Engineered optimized storage solutions for stateful workloads (MongoDB) using GKE PersistentVolumes, enhancing performance and data resiliency.
- Established a full-stack observability framework using Google Cloud Monitoring, Logging, Prometheus, and Grafana.
Plamen Mirchev
Last position:
Head of Service & Operations Management at Raiffeisen Bank International
- Shaping service management framework as part of head office of RBI
- Service owner overseeing IT cloud services, accountable for overall quality, lifecycle, and success
- Managing customer relationships and satisfaction for 10 business units ensuring smooth business continuity and operations
- Single point of contact and service/process owner providing T-shaped expertise in IT domains, cloud platforms and services (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Jira, Orca, CRM, GitHub, SFMC)
- ITSM/ITIL implementation and mentoring including design, definition, mapping, and execution
- Change and release management, UAT/test assurance, major incident management, SDLC management
- Managing regulatory and audit requirements, DORA, GDPR, ITPF compliance and reporting
- Acting as a point of escalation for complex customer issues, resolving conflicts, fostering a customer-centric culture
- People management: leading and managing service delivery teams, DevOps, vendors, and third-party teams
- Cross-tribe service delivery and contract management: KPIs, SLAs, OLAs, RPO, RTO, BCM/SCM management
- Agile/Scrum process delivery governance, stakeholder communication, and budget/cost management
Michail Matjuchin
Last position:
OpenShift Specialist, Developer at Insurance
Project goal: Introduce OpenShift as the run-time platform and migrate all applications to OpenShift.
My contribution: Make sure logging and monitoring for the applications were in place. Set up and put into operation the OpenShift components for logging and monitoring (Elasticsearch, Prometheus, and Grafana). Develop and implement the security concept for OpenShift. Work with developers to define and carry out the application changes needed for the OpenShift migration. Integrate monitoring into the applications.
Technical environment: Java, WebSphere Liberty, OpenShift components, Elasticsearch (ELK stack), Prometheus, Grafana.
Emre Hayta
Last position:
DevOps Engineer at SIWA Online GmbH
- Planning and implementation of IT infrastructures for clients
- Automating deployments with AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK
- Monitoring and optimizing cloud environments and the entire IT infrastructure
- Providing technical support and troubleshooting infrastructure issues
- Collaborating with development teams on CI/CD processes
Christian Werner
Last position:
EHF.at
- Further development and ongoing maintenance of the existing WordPress site for EHF.at to revamp the responsive design and improve usability on mobile devices.
- Integration of WooCommerce into the existing site for full e-commerce functionality and digitization of the team sports apparel sales process.
- Implementation and configuration of an automated newsletter system to strengthen customer loyalty through regular updates and personalized offers.
- Ongoing maintenance including regular updates, performance optimizations, and security checks to keep the site up-to-date and functional.
- Project-related technical activities: PHP, CSS, and JavaScript.
Raphael Mulenda
Last position:
Team Lead / Head of Service Desk & Field Service at B&R Industrial Automation (ABB)
- Owned day-to-day IT operations for Service Desk, Field Service, and on-call support, ensuring business continuity for a multi-site environment
- Led the transition from Lotus Notes incident tracking to ServiceNow, defining process design, workflows, roles, and reporting
- Implemented a modern telephony system with integrated reporting, enabling real-time visibility of volumes, wait times, and SLA adherence
- Launched a customer self-service portal and on-site walk-in support model to improve first-contact resolution and user experience
- Designed, documented, and rolled out SLAs, delivering targeted training for engineers and stakeholders to drive adoption and compliance
- Acted as process owner for service operations, establishing operating procedures, request/change/incident interfaces, and quality controls
- Partnered with business and IS/OT stakeholders to prioritize demand, reduce operational risk, and improve service reliability
Markus Kleiber
Last position:
Document Development at Insurance Company
- Replacement of original Dopix documents and modules into the Quadient document environment
- Extension of document logic
Sergiu Mocian
Last position:
IT Project Manager & Transformation Lead at OMV
- Program delivery: set-up of strategic initiatives from ideation to execution, designing cross-divisional operating models that streamlined delivery across 6 business units.+
- Large scale initiatives: IT project manager of eMobility mobile app development for entire group, cross-country and multi-year initiative, with budget oversight of >2Mn and 20 FTEs.
- Product lifecycle management: delivered the end-to-end SDLC of a key B2B digital mobility application, successfully launching to 10 000+ users while managing vendor partnerships and system architecture.
- Vendor oversight: successfully negotiated and managed multi-vendor contracts, with negotiated contract value of 30% with no impact on scope.
- Architecture definition: definition of system architectures to ensure scalable, cost-effective solutions for the pricing, logistics and mobility domains, integration of 3 back-end systems.
- Digital transformation & coaching: supported group-wide agile maturity as a coach, upskilling pool of over 40 professionals in Product Management to increase delivery predictability and ensure value-driven approach.
Benjamin Auer
Last position:
Multi-Project Manager at Trading Company
- Setup of a new Data Warehouse (Budget ~€15M 2025 – 2026)
- Backend modernization project (Budget ~€5M 2025 – 2026)
- Standard software rollout with custom programming (Budget ~€9M 2025 – 2026)
René Zingerle
Last position:
DevSecOps & Kubernetes Engineer (Freelance) at mgm technology partners GmbH
Development of a Custom Jenkins Shared Library (Groovy)
Integration of security checks in CI/CD pipeline (Shift-Left Approach)
Automated vulnerability scanning and remediation workflows
GitOps-based deployments with ArgoCD
Semantic versioning automation with Git integration
Container lifecycle management (Build/Scan/Tag/Push)
ArgoCD webhook integration for event-driven deployments
Complete cluster automation with Ansible
Bare-metal Kubernetes installation from scratch
High-availability control plane setup
Unified deployment system for multi-application orchestration
Configuration management according to NIST SP 800-128
Host security: Linux hardening, SELinux/AppArmor
Network security: NetworkPolicies, micro-segmentation
Application security: RBAC, Pod Security Standards
Data security: Encryption at rest and in transit
Defense-in-depth principles
Certificate management with cert-manager
Secrets management with External Secrets Operator connected to Vault
Infrastructure monitoring with Checkmk
Prometheus/Grafana monitoring stack
Security event detection and logging
Automated health checks and incident response procedures
MetalLB load balancing for bare-metal
Nginx ingress controller with SSL passthrough
NetworkPolicies for security zones
Rook-Ceph distributed storage, CNI configuration (Weave Net)
Container & orchestration: Kubernetes (bare-metal), Docker, Helm
CI/CD & GitOps: Jenkins (Custom Shared Library), ArgoCD, Groovy
Automation: Ansible, Bash, Python
Security: nftables, RBAC, NetworkPolicies, cert-manager, Vault, Sealed Secrets
Monitoring: Checkmk, Prometheus, Grafana
Storage & networking: Rook-Ceph, MetalLB, Nginx Ingress, Calico
Collaboration: Jira, Confluence
OS: Debian, Ubuntu
Martin Ananda Boeker
Last position:
Systems Architect at ASFiNAG
- Migrated infrastructure automation from Puppet to Ansible
- Ensured compatibility with CentOS and RHEL 8 and 9
- Managed users in Active Directory
- Managed applications, services, security policies, certificates, and more
Tobias Franek
Last position:
CTO & Founder at bitminds
Selected projects:
Kiosk platform – hospitality
- Led a 3-person team while hands-on architecting an edge computing infrastructure for over 15 self-service kiosks in Alpine hotels with unstable connectivity
- Designed a Nomad-based cluster with a WireGuard mesh network for fully automated OTA updates, even during local network outages and offline operation
- Integrated physical peripherals (hotel key card readers, thermal printers) into a containerized deployment pipeline
- Reduced on-site maintenance visits by ~40% through a resilient offline-first architecture and Prometheus-based hardware monitoring
- Tech: Nomad, Consul, WireGuard, NestJS, NextJS, Prometheus, Custom Hardware Provisioning
Multi-tenant SaaS platform – insurance claims processing
- Built and operated the Kubernetes infrastructure for a market-leading claims processing platform (acquired by an S&P 500 company) – with strict compliance and availability requirements
- Designed a multi-tenant EKS cluster with tenant isolation, enabling cost-effective single-instance hosting for multiple customers
- Implemented dynamic spot instance node pools, reducing infrastructure costs by ~20%
- Set up fully automated deployment pipelines (Terraform + GitHub Actions) for uninterrupted releases during business hours
- Tech: EKS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Prometheus/Grafana/Loki, PHP, GraphQL
Legacy ERP integration – construction photo documentation
- Led a 2-person team in designing and implementing a real-time sync bridge between a legacy Microsoft Access ERP (without an API) and a modern mobile photo app for quality control on construction sites
- Developed a PostgreSQL pipeline with real-time listeners that extract data from 1990s Access databases – without disrupting existing workflows
- Built a resilient upload architecture with a circuit breaker pattern for unstable site connections (S3, NFS, Synology NAS)
- Saved each project manager 2–4 hours per week through automated photo sync instead of manual USB/SD card transfers
- Tech: NestJS, PostgreSQL, React Native (Expo), S3, Synology API, offline-first architecture
Benjamin Akhras
Last position:
Research Engineer at AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology
- Developed Taranis AI, an advanced open-source intelligence (OSINT) tool, leveraging artificial intelligence to revolutionize information gathering and situational analysis.
- Created cybersecurity trainings and a cyber range to provide hands-on learning experiences for SOC teams and IT management.
- Designed and implemented a hybrid cloud infrastructure using OpenStack, Terraform, and Ansible, improving the scalability and performance of the infrastructure and led the migration from an on-site only infrastructure to the hybrid cloud environment.
- Some of my current work can be found on GitHub.
Markus Furtlehner
Last position:
Managing Director & Senior Consultant at IT-Trail GmbH
- Custom development
- Web hosting
- Support
- DevOps
- Technologies: C#, Node.js, Web, Windows, Linux, SQL, MS365, Azure, AWS
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Statistics of experts using Grafana
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
19 years
Position duration
3.2 years
Positions per freelancer
9
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
81%
Master's degree or higher
38%
Doctorate
5%
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
German, English, 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 Austria 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 Austria using Grafana
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
Real-Time Observability and Visualization
Grafana is the leading open-source platform for visualizing and analyzing metrics, logs, and traces. It allows organizations to query, visualize, alert on, and understand data no matter where it is stored. Companies use it to create dynamic, interactive dashboards that unify disparate data sources into a single pane of glass.
Monitoring Infrastructure and Applications in Austria
Austrian industrial, financial, and tech companies deploy these monitoring solutions to secure high availability across their entire stack. The technology is heavily used to keep track of system health, optimize manufacturing pipelines, and monitor cloud-native microservices.
- Setting up unified multi-tenant dashboard panels.
- Tracking critical service level indicators.
- Creating operational dashboards for on-site industrial plants.
- Unifying hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure metrics.
The LGTM Stack and Data Source Ecosystem
A specialist in this field possesses deep knowledge of the broader observability ecosystem, often referred to as the LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, and Mimir). They connect diverse databases and monitoring systems to build a comprehensive visualization layer.
- Integration with Prometheus for time-series metrics.
- Log aggregation setups using Loki and Fluentd.
- Distributed tracing integration with Tempo and Jaeger.
- Querying SQL databases, Elasticsearch, and AWS CloudWatch.
Overcoming Monitoring Bottlenecks and Migration Hurdles
Organizations bring in external specialists when their current monitoring setup fails to scale or lacks clear alerting pathways. Setting up complex dashboard variables, configuring secure multi-tenancy, or migrating from legacy monitoring tools requires specialized knowledge. Freelance professionals provide the exact expertise needed to establish best practices quickly without long onboarding times.
Engineering Robust Dashboarding Architectures
Elite specialists go beyond dragging and dropping widgets to write optimized queries in languages like PromQL, LogQL, and Flux. They structure dashboards for high performance, preventing slow loading times even when querying millions of data points. Additionally, they manage dashboards as code using Terraform or GitOps workflows to ensure reproducibility and version control.
Collaboration and Language Requirements for Austrian Projects
When executing observability projects in Austria, clear communication is just as vital as technical expertise. Specialists collaborate closely with local DevOps and system administration teams, often requiring fluency in German or English. Whether working fully remote or visiting data centers in Vienna, Linz, or Graz for initial workshops, these professionals adapt seamlessly to local compliance standards.
Frequently asked questions
Everything clients usually want to know about Grafana, in one place.
Enterprise teams use Grafana to centralize their operational data from infrastructure, databases, and application performance tools. It enables real-time monitoring and alerting, helping engineering teams detect and troubleshoot anomalies before they impact end users. By unifying metrics, logs, and traces into a single workspace, it streamlines incident response.
While Kibana is tightly coupled with the Elasticsearch stack, Grafana is highly data-source agnostic, allowing you to query dozens of different databases simultaneously. It excels at time-series metric visualization and dashboard customization. Many modern teams prefer it because it integrates metrics, logs, and traces in one interface rather than focusing solely on log search.
A qualified Grafana specialist can connect a vast array of data backends, including Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, and AWS CloudWatch. They configure these connections using secure authentication methods like OAuth or API keys. This ensures that sensitive operational data remains secure while being aggregated into centralized dashboards.
Managing Grafana dashboards as code via GitOps ensures version control, peer reviews, and automated deployment across environments. Specialists use tools like Terraform or the official provider to define dashboards in JSON or YAML. This practice prevents manual configuration drift and makes disaster recovery straightforward.
Most freelance Grafana specialists in Austria work fully remote, collaborating with internal teams via Slack, Teams, and video calls. However, some Austrian companies prefer a hybrid approach where the specialist comes on-site in Vienna or other hubs for initial architecture planning. Local language skills in German are often highly valued for these hybrid engagements.
When sourcing a Grafana specialist, look for strong expertise in systems administration, container orchestration with Kubernetes, and querying languages like PromQL or LogQL. Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code is also highly beneficial. These adjacent skills ensure the specialist can seamlessly integrate the visualization layer with your underlying infrastructure.
You can evaluate a Grafana specialist by asking for sanitized examples of their previous dashboards or walkthroughs of their query optimization techniques. A top professional will explain how they structured panels to minimize database load and how they configured alerting thresholds to prevent alert fatigue. They should also demonstrate a solid understanding of user access control and dashboard performance.
Yes, migrating to Grafana from older legacy monitoring tools is a common project for freelance specialists. They plan the migration strategy to ensure zero downtime in monitoring, map old metrics to new data structures, and train your internal team on the new platform. This transition usually results in lower licensing costs and significantly faster incident response times.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Austria who have used Grafana in their recent projects is 98 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 787 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Austria who have used Grafana in their recent projects, 81% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 38% hold at least a Master's degree, and 5% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Austria who have used Grafana in their recent projects have 19 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Austria who have used Grafana in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (17%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Austria who have used Grafana in their recent projects are Information Technology (92%), Banking and Finance (42%), and Professional Services (33%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Austria who have used Grafana in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (75%), and Operations (71%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Grafana
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