Infrastructure as Code Experts in Austria
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Alexander P.
Last position:
Owner & Lecturer at Own company for AI governance and data products, Vienna
- Consulting and interim management at the interface between IT operations and regulation
- Impact analysis and implementation planning for NISG 2026 and the EU AI Act, including risk management and reporting and evidence processes
- Training for governing bodies and employees on regulatory obligations
- Lectures in Data & Information Management and Human-Machine Interaction at University of Applied Sciences Burgenland, since 2023
- Supervision of master’s theses and participation in the examination board
- Presentations for business and educational institutions
- Design and development of data and AI products, platforms and pipelines
- Privacy-first architectures and zero-knowledge encryption, cloud-native on EU infrastructure
- MLOps and AIOps in live operations
- Own applications under own brand: shared codebase, separate delivery for each target device
- AI-assisted software development (vibe coding), complete agentic pipelines, code generation, implementation, automated testing, CI/CD and release cycles
- Publications on the EU AI Act, NIS2, DORA, CRA and CER as an integrated governance system
- Publications on data sovereignty, cloud economics and industrial image processing
- AI governance / compliance: data quality, Responsible AI, EU AI Act readiness, risk classification, AI ethics
John A.
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.
Thomas S.
Last position:
Cloud Native Trainer and Architect / Owner at TSC Labs e.U.
Focus:
- Developing and providing Cloud Native Courses
- Architecture Consulting for Platform Engineering and Cloud Native
- Supporting Teams and People on their Cloud Native Journey
Delivered Trainings:
- Kubernetes Fundamentals - From Pods to Ingresses; 2 Days
- Platform Engineering on GKE - Operators, GitOps, Gateway API, Policy Management, Storage; 2 Days
- Platform Engineering on AKS - GitOps, External Secrets, Policy Management, Ingress/Gateway API and Storage; 4 Days
Currently In Progress:
- Platform Engineering Basic / Advanced on OpenShift - OpenShift/Kubernetes Basics, GitOps, External DNS, External Secrets; Multi-Step Program with 2 Course Blocks (3 and 2 Days) and self-paced projects
Alexander V.
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.
Emre H.
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
Raphael M.
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
Namik D.
Last position:
Test Manager / Test Automation Engineer at Sky Deutschland GmbH
- Implemented and maintained 443 automated test cases with a 99% pass rate (441/443)
- Enabled CI for test automation: automated runs on review/merge, reporting via Xray
- Introduced accessibility and performance checks and established them in reporting
- Served as QA lead in daily operations with stand-ups, Kanban progress tracking, prioritization, and targeted task distribution
- Handled defect triage and stakeholder communication with daily triage, QA status analysis, and actionable recommendations
- Developed and maintained a stable regression suite for CRM/Salesforce flows (UI/E2E and near-API validations)
- Integrated CI/CD using Jenkins pipelines with Groovy (IaC)
- Maintained QA documentation, test conventions, and processes in Confluence, aligned across the team
- Conducted Salesforce Einstein chatbot testing with intent/topic validation and output checks, and used Robot Framework/Python suites for continuous quality monitoring
- Technology stack: Jira, Xray, Confluence, Jenkins, Groovy, Git, Java, Selenium, Playwright, Cucumber, TypeScript, Postman, REST, Salesforce, Google Cloud, Lighthouse, Evinced, Scrum/Kanban, BDD (Gherkin)
Nikolaus J.
Last position:
Integration Architect at CECIL
Designed an API-first omnichannel integration, linking WhatsApp Business API with Salesforce Marketing Cloud to unify customer data across multiple platforms.
Automated customer onboarding and engagement workflows using Marketing Cloud Journeys, SSJS, and Azure Functions.
Developed a middleware layer to sync WhatsApp interactions with Sales Cloud for seamless customer experience tracking.
René Z.
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 A.
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
Andreas K.
Last position:
DevOps Consultant at Automotive/freelancer
- Infrastructure automation with Ansible, AWX, Docker/DockerCompose/Kubernetes, GitLab, Bash, Python (Ubuntu)
- Infrastructure monitoring with Icinga2
- Software development in Python
- Qemu, KVM, libvirt
Attila D.
Last position:
Full-Stack Software Engineer at Research Data Evaluation
- Custom anonymized research data analyzer, providing insights and facilitating data-driven decision-making.
- Designed and developed back- and frontend.
- Delivered end-to-end solution.
- Accelerated research timeline by 2 months.
Stefan M.
Last position:
Founder & CEO at MoreGeek IT Services GmbH
- I offer project-based short and long-term freelance services for Linux and open source projects
- DevOps/SecOps/Sysadmin for Linux operating systems with a strong focus on idempotent automation and high availability
- Migration projects: on-site to cloud (and vice versa) and cloud-to-cloud migrations between providers
- Development environments: standardizing customers' development and sysadmin workstations/clients
- Digital sovereignty solutions (independent of hyperscalers): Linux desktop (Ubuntu/SUSE), mail and communications (groupware mail/calendar/contacts), file sharing and collaboration (Nextcloud)
Bernhard K.
Last position:
AI Consultant at Bitpanda
- Advising on AI strategy and implementation for one of Europe's leading digital asset platforms
- Helping teams integrate agentic AI workflows, optimize developer productivity through AI-assisted tooling, and evaluate emerging AI technologies for fintech applications
Lulzim B.
Last position:
Centralized monitoring
- Setup and maintain Prometheus and Grafana via Docker for more than 2.000 services.
- Setup CI/CD with Ansible to provision and maintain Prometheus and Grafana.
- Metrics visualization and segregation in multiple dynamic dashboards.
- Setup of real time alerting for critical services.
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Statistics of experts using Infrastructure as Code
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
20 years
Position duration
3.3 years
Positions per freelancer
9
Top business areas
Information Technology, Operations, Product Development
Top industries
Information Technology, Education, Healthcare
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Business Intelligence
Bachelor's degree or higher
79%
Master's degree or higher
50%
Certifications per freelancer
4
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
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 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 Infrastructure as Code
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.
Infrastructure as Code 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 (100%)
- Education (33%)
- Healthcare (33%)
- Manufacturing (33%)
- Government and Administration (33%)
- Banking and Finance (27%)
- Energy (20%)
- Transportation (20%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What Infrastructure as Code does
Infrastructure as Code, often shortened to IaC, manages servers, networks, databases, permissions, and cloud services through versioned configuration files. Teams can review, test, reproduce, and change environments without relying on manual console work. It brings infrastructure changes into the same controlled workflow as application code.
Core tools and ecosystems
Terraform and OpenTofu define resources across cloud providers and on-premises systems. AWS CloudFormation, Azure Bicep, and Google Cloud Deployment Manager focus on their respective ecosystems, while Pulumi lets teams use general-purpose programming languages. An IaC specialist may also work with Ansible, Helm, Kubernetes, Git, policy engines, and secret-management tools.
What companies build
IaC supports repeatable environments for web applications, data platforms, internal services, and regulated workloads. Common deliverables include:
- Reusable modules for cloud networks, identity, storage, and compute
- Kubernetes clusters and supporting platform services
- Development, staging, and production environment definitions
- Automated provisioning and controlled infrastructure changes
When freelance expertise helps
Companies often bring in freelance professionals during cloud migrations, platform rebuilds, or a move from manually configured systems to automated provisioning. Specialists can establish module standards, untangle existing state, improve deployment workflows, and document operating procedures. In Austria, remote collaboration is common, while some organisations still need on-site workshops for discovery or handover.
Skills around IaC
Strong work with Infrastructure as Code depends on more than syntax. Professionals need a clear grasp of networking, identity and access management, operating systems, containers, cloud security, observability, and cost controls. They should understand Git workflows, continuous integration, state handling, secrets, drift detection, and safe rollback approaches.
How to assess quality
Look for professionals who can explain why a resource is modeled a certain way, how dependencies are managed, and how changes are reviewed before release. Useful evidence includes maintainable modules, automated validation, isolated environments, clear state strategy, and practical incident recovery. Ask how they handle provider changes, sensitive values, failed deployments, and collaboration with teams working in German or English.
Frequently asked questions
Key details about Infrastructure as Code, drawn from the questions we get asked most.
Infrastructure as Code is used to define and provision cloud, network, container, and platform resources through readable, version-controlled configuration. It helps teams create consistent environments, review infrastructure changes, and recover or reproduce systems more reliably.
Infrastructure as Code makes infrastructure changes repeatable and reviewable, whereas manual configuration depends heavily on individual actions and documentation. Manual work can remain useful for exploration, but IaC is usually better for shared, long-lived, and frequently changed environments.
Terraform and OpenTofu support resources across several providers, while tools such as AWS CloudFormation and Azure Bicep offer deep integration with one cloud ecosystem. The right choice depends on provider coverage, team skills, governance needs, existing modules, and the expected lifetime of the platform.
Infrastructure as Code work benefits from knowledge of cloud networking, identity, Linux, containers, Kubernetes, Git, CI/CD, monitoring, and security. A strong specialist also understands state management, secrets, policy checks, and how application teams consume the resulting environments.
IaC projects need a level of experience that matches their risk and scope, not a fixed number of years. A professional working on a production migration should be able to demonstrate safe change design, dependency handling, testing, recovery planning, and clear communication with existing teams.
Infrastructure as Code is well suited to remote collaboration because configurations, reviews, plans, and documentation live in shared repositories. On-site sessions can still help with architecture workshops, access processes, or handover, while day-to-day work can usually be coordinated remotely in German or English.
Infrastructure as Code quality shows in modular configurations, predictable plans, automated checks, controlled state, secure secret handling, and useful documentation. Ask the professional to explain trade-offs and failure scenarios rather than judging only the number of tools listed in a profile.
IaC deliverables may include reusable modules, environment definitions, CI/CD integration, policy checks, migration plans, runbooks, and handover documentation. The exact scope should also define ownership of state, access permissions, testing, rollback procedures, and future maintenance.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Austria who have used Infrastructure as Code in their recent projects is 103 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 826 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Austria who have used Infrastructure as Code in their recent projects, 79% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 50% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Austria who have used Infrastructure as Code in their recent projects have 20 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.3 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Austria who have used Infrastructure as Code in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (27%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Austria who have used Infrastructure as Code in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Education (33%), and Healthcare (33%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Austria who have used Infrastructure as Code in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Operations (87%), and Product Development (67%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Infrastructure as Code
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.
Vienna Graz 
Vienna Countries:
- Germany
- Austria
- Switzerland
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