Helm Experts in Austria
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Austria, who have recently used Helm
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.
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
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
Kurt Blumenschein
Last position:
Backend / Microservice Developer, DevOps, Test Automation at RCA, Rail Cargo Austria AG
- Backend / Microservice Developer, DevOps, Test Automation
- ~100 Devs, ~10 Teams, per team: 1 PO, 1 Scrum Master, 1 UX, 1 Developer, 1 Tester
- .net core 8, 9, C#
- Microservices, Clean-Architecture, MediatR, CQRS
- GraphQL, REST, SDL
- Azure DevOps, CI / CD-pipelines, Azure-Service Bus, Rabbit-MQ, Kafka, Azure App Configuration, Azure KeyVault, Azure Kubernetes AKS
- Splunk, dashboards, custom metrics, Elastic-Search, Kibana (ELK)
- Azure SQL-Databases, Azure Cosmos DB
- Architecture decisions, event governance, COP (Backend, DevOps, FrontEnt, Test Automations)
- AI, Copilot, creating test templates
- Scheduler, Hangfire, Quartz
- Automated unit and integration tests
- Automated E2E tests, Playwright test automation, BDD, Gherkin, Cucumber
- Tracking of shipments
- GIS, GPS data, geofence, geo search, position tracking, asset positions
- Jira, Confluence
- Focus on high-performance message-oriented architecture (~xx million messages per month per service)
- Structured logging, Serilog, OTel, Splunk, Application Monitoring
- Integration of different position data sources (GPS-based data) into Azure Data Lake
Jaroslav Abraham
Last position:
Child care, personal development and learning
Jasmin Gölder
Last position:
Cloud Developer & DevOps Engineer at Energy Utility Company
- Further developing microservices (Go, .NET)
- Expanding gRPC APIs
- Maintaining Kubernetes clusters (AKS)
- Managing the system landscape
- Migrating Azure App Services to Kubernetes
- Creating and extending Azure Pipelines
- Developing a Go microservice to receive and send events from Azure Service Bus
- Integrating KEDA for autoscaling
- Technologies used: Go, .NET, Azure Portal, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, MongoDB, Jaeger, Grafana
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Statistics of experts using Helm
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
20 years
Position duration
3.4 years
Positions per freelancer
11
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Customer Service
Top industries
Information Technology, Insurance, Construction
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Business Intelligence
Bachelor's degree or higher
60%
Master's degree or higher
20%
Certifications per freelancer
4
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
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 Helm
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
What Helm does
Helm is the package manager for Kubernetes. It turns app manifests into reusable charts, so teams can install, configure, and update complex workloads in a consistent way. Experts use it to manage environment-specific values, templates, and release lifecycles.
Typical work
- Build and refactor Helm charts for new services
- Set up values files for dev, test, and production
- Manage chart dependencies and shared templates
- Support upgrades, rollbacks, and release cleanup
- Align chart structure with cluster and platform standards
Ecosystem
Strong Helm specialists work across Kubernetes, kubectl, CI pipelines, chart repositories, and Git-based delivery. They know when to use chart hooks, helpers, secrets handling, and template functions. They also keep charts readable, versioned, and easy for other specialists to maintain.
When companies bring in help
Teams usually look for freelance Helm expertise when deployments become hard to repeat, when charts drift across environments, or when releases need safer control. This often happens during Kubernetes migrations, platform standardization, or when existing manifests need to be turned into maintainable charts. In Austria, this is common in product teams that run container platforms and need remote specialists who can work cleanly with local teams.
What good specialists deliver
Good Helm professionals write charts that are modular, clear, and predictable. They validate templates, keep values organized, and reduce surprises during upgrades. They also document chart usage so other experts can deploy and operate the application without guesswork.
Skills that matter
- Deep Kubernetes knowledge
- Strong templating and YAML discipline
- Understanding of release automation and GitOps
- Careful handling of environment overrides
- Practical troubleshooting of failed installs and upgrades
Frequently asked questions
Everything clients usually want to know about Helm, in one place.
Helm is used to package Kubernetes resources into reusable charts. That makes it easier to deploy the same application across environments with different settings, while keeping the manifests structured and versioned.
Helm is not a replacement for Kubernetes; it is a layer on top of it. Plain manifests can work well for simple setups, but Helm helps more when a project has many components, repeated configuration, or frequent release changes.
A strong Helm specialist can design charts, clean up template logic, manage values files, and support safe upgrades. They should also be able to explain why a chart is structured a certain way so the team can keep using it after the engagement ends.
Helm work usually goes together with Kubernetes, YAML, and CI/CD tooling. Git, container images, and release automation also matter because chart work is rarely isolated from the delivery pipeline.
Helm is most useful when a team already runs Kubernetes or is about to move there. For simple one-off deployments, the overhead can be unnecessary, but for shared services, multi-environment setups, and platform work, it quickly becomes valuable.
Yes, Helm work is often done remotely because the main tasks are chart design, review, and troubleshooting. For teams in Austria, remote collaboration works well as long as the specialist can join the delivery cadence and understand the local team’s process.
Look at whether the Helm charts are readable, reusable, and easy to upgrade. Good work has clean templates, sensible defaults, clear values management, and no hidden deployment tricks that make later changes risky.
Helm help is often needed when deployments differ between environments, upgrades fail, or chart templates have grown too complex. It is also a good sign when teams rely on copy-pasted manifests and want a cleaner release process.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Austria who have used Helm in their recent projects is 91 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 724 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Austria who have used Helm in their recent projects, 60% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 20% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Austria who have used Helm in their recent projects have 20 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.4 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Austria who have used Helm in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and Spanish (29%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Austria who have used Helm in their recent projects are Information Technology (86%), Insurance (43%), and Construction (29%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Austria who have used Helm in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (100%), and Customer Service (43%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Helm
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.
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