Infrastructure as Code Experts 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.
Thomas Schuetz
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
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
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
Namik Delilovic
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 Jäger-Grassl
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 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
Andreas Kainz
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 Danics
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 Morgenthaler
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)
Lulzim Bulica
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
19 years
Position duration
3.5 years
Positions per freelancer
9
Top business areas
Information Technology, Operations, Product Development
Top industries
Information Technology, Government and Administration, Healthcare
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Customer Service
Bachelor's degree or higher
75%
Master's degree or higher
50%
Certifications per freelancer
5
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 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 30 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
About the technology
What IaC does
Infrastructure as Code, often called IaC, turns servers, networks, access rules, and cloud services into versioned code. That makes environments easier to review, repeat, and rebuild. Teams use it to reduce manual changes and keep delivery consistent.
Common tools
- Terraform for cloud and platform provisioning
- Ansible for configuration and orchestration
- AWS CloudFormation or Azure Bicep for native stacks
- Pulumi for code-first infrastructure workflows
- Git-based review and change control
These tools often sit beside CI/CD pipelines, secret stores, and policy checks. Strong specialists know when to use a declarative model, when to add modules, and how to keep code readable for the next team.
Typical work
IaC specialists build landing zones, network layouts, and repeatable application environments. They also define IAM, Kubernetes clusters, databases, and observability foundations. In Austria, they are often brought in for cloud migrations, platform standardization, and regulated environments that need clear change history.
When companies need help
Companies usually bring in freelance experts when manual setup has become risky or too slow. Signs include drift between environments, hard-to-review changes, and slow recovery after incidents.
A good specialist can also help when a team needs to move from scripts to modules, clean up a messy repository, or align infrastructure work across product teams.
What strong specialists know
Strong professionals understand both infrastructure and software delivery. They write reusable modules, manage state carefully, and design code that supports safe changes.
They also work well with cloud APIs, secret management, testing, and policy-as-code. The best experts explain trade-offs clearly and leave behind code that another specialist can maintain.
Working with freelancers
IaC work fits both remote and on-site collaboration. Remote is common for repository reviews, module design, and pipeline work, while on-site sessions can help with platform planning or a cloud reset.
For Austrian teams, English is usually enough for the technical work. A freelancer who can read existing code, spot drift, and document decisions in a clear way is usually the safest choice.
Frequently asked questions
Key details about Infrastructure as Code, drawn from the questions we get asked most.
Infrastructure as Code is used to define cloud and platform resources in versioned files instead of clicking through consoles. It helps teams build repeatable environments, reduce configuration drift, and make changes easier to review. Common use cases include network setup, compute, storage, IAM, Kubernetes, and deployment foundations.
Infrastructure as Code is the broader practice, while Terraform is one of the most common tools for doing it. Teams may also use Ansible, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or Azure Bicep depending on the stack. If a project says IaC, it usually means the delivery approach, not one specific product.
A strong Infrastructure as Code specialist knows cloud services, Git workflows, and module design. Useful adjacent skills include CI/CD, Linux, networking, identity and access management, secret handling, and policy-as-code. For Kubernetes-heavy work, platform and cluster knowledge matters too.
Infrastructure as Code work can start small, but it becomes risky once environments are shared or production systems depend on it. If you need reusable modules, state management, reviewable change flow, or migration from manual setup, an outside specialist is often worth it. The more environments and teams involved, the more valuable expert help becomes.
With IaC, quality shows up in readable code, safe change plans, and consistent environments. Look for clear module boundaries, sensible naming, minimal duplication, and good handling of state and secrets. Strong work also includes testing, documentation, and a process that makes changes easy to trace.
Most Infrastructure as Code tasks work very well remotely because the work lives in code, reviews, and pipelines. On-site time can help at the start of a migration, during platform design workshops, or when several teams need alignment. For Austria-based companies, remote collaboration in English is often enough for delivery, with on-site sessions used where needed.
Infrastructure as Code is more controlled and repeatable than ad hoc scripts or console clicks. Scripts can still play a role, but IaC gives you version history, reviewable changes, and a clearer way to rebuild environments. That usually makes it a better fit for production systems and shared platforms.
A freelancer working on Infrastructure as Code should expect to read existing repositories, map dependencies, and improve what is already there before adding new modules. Many projects involve cleanup, migration, and standardization rather than a greenfield setup. Good clients will want clear documentation, careful rollout steps, and reliable collaboration with their internal specialists.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Austria who have used Infrastructure as Code in their recent projects is 102 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 813 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Austria who have used Infrastructure as Code in their recent projects, 75% 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 19 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.5 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 (23%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Austria who have used Infrastructure as Code in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Government and Administration (38%), and Healthcare (31%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Austria who have used Infrastructure as Code in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Operations (85%), and Product Development (62%).
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.
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