Infrastructure as Code Experts in Switzerland
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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
Ralf Ramge
Last position:
Security Architect at Federal Employment Agency
Responsibility for the design, migration, and integration of a security- and audit-critical HashiCorp Vault platform in the trust center of a nationwide authority with system-critical importance.
Analysis and realignment of the existing HashiCorp Vault landscape, including production and planned use cases
Design, proof-of-concept, migration, and integration of HashiCorp Vault Enterprise, taking into account the authority's PKI and operational processes
Design and implementation of an automated certificate and secrets management system for 300 Kubernetes clusters and several thousand certificates in the trust center
Securing the Vault platform using hardware security modules (HSM)
The solution enables a highly available, audit-compliant, and automated operation of certificate and secrets use cases in a highly regulated environment.
Technologies used: HashiCorp Vault Enterprise, Terraform, Ansible, OpenSSL, PKI, HSM
Patrick Riegler
Last position:
DevOps Engineer at Swisscard AECS AG
- PoC for various platform integration functionalities using Backstage and Crossplane
- Implementation of improvements of developer experience with Azure AVD and DevSpace
- Manage application deployment infrastructure on Kubernetes clusters
- Manage CI/CD platform
- Manage deployments into Kubernetes (Rancher and AKS) and into Azure
- Act as security champion of the DevOps team
- Manage vulnerabilities and support dev teams to manage third-party vulnerabilities using JFrog Xray
- Support building the platform team
- Manage infrastructure as code using Terraform and Atlantis
- Build and integrate a platform and IDP using Crossplane
Elias Vasiliadi
Last position:
Cloud Architect & Security Advisor at BaFin
- Designing hybrid cloud architectures (on-prem + cloud)
- Implementing cloud governance structures according to NIS2, BSI, ESCB/SMM
- Developing policies for cloud security & access control
- Target designs, management decision frameworks, internal audits & cloud integration
Yuri Gladkov
Last position:
Senior Security Devops Engineer at Swisscom
- Implementation and maintenance of highly critical IAM solutions for B2B clients (SSO, MFA, SAML/OIDC, Entra ID, PIM/PAM)
- Security administration of Linux systems (CentOS, Red Hat) in Docker and Kubernetes environments
- Migration from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes
- Infrastructure automation with Terraform
- Planning and execution of risk assessments, threat modeling, and compliance reports
- Development and management of B2B applications (Java, REST/SOAP, Angular) and CI/CD pipelines (Python, Ansible, Jenkins, GitLab)
- Leading integration tests and UAT (Cucumber, Selenium, Katalon)
- Implementing monitoring and observability strategies with Grafana, Prometheus, and Splunk
- Integrating SAST tools like Snyk and SonarQube
- Release management and project coordination according to Scrum and SAFe
- Mentoring and technical support of junior team members
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.
Thomas Müllerleile
Last position:
Developer/Analyst at Nvaria GmbH
- Analyzed migration strategies after Camunda 7 was declared end of life with extended support until 2030.
- Evaluated potential migrations to Camunda 8, Flowable, and Operaton.
- Conducted a proof of concept demonstrating that existing projects could be migrated to both Flowable and Operaton.
- BPMN
- DMN
- Confluence
- Flowable
- Operaton
Stephan Rudolph
Last position:
ICT Architect/Programmer, DevOps, Design, Implementation, Test, Documentation at PostFinance AG
Deployment of a Customer Engagement & Loyalty solution in the cloud (AWS) and integration into the existing on-premise system landscape.
Technology: AWS EKS - Kubernetes, Helm, AWS EC2, AWS S3, PostgreSQL, SAP GLIF, RabbitMQ, Git, GitLab, ArgoCD, GitOps, CI/CD, Terraform, HashiCorp Vault, JFrog Artifactory, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Linux, bash, IntelliJ, draw.io, Confluence
Result: Deployment of a cross-product bonus program for retail banking, embedded into online and mobile banking; actual and emotional customer engagement; improved profitability and loyalty; support for cross- and upselling; long-term improvement in customer satisfaction and positive impact on the company image.
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Statistics of experts using Infrastructure as Code
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
18 years
Position duration
2.3 years
Positions per freelancer
13
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Government and Administration
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Business Intelligence
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
60%
Doctorate
20%
Certifications per freelancer
6
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 Switzerland 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 Switzerland 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 it covers
Infrastructure as Code turns server, network, and platform setup into versioned code. It is used to define cloud environments, policy, and deployment logic in a repeatable way. Strong professionals know when to use Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or Pulumi for the job.
Typical work
- Build and maintain Terraform modules and reusable stacks
- Automate cloud environments across AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Manage Ansible playbooks, variables, and inventories
- Standardize deployments for Kubernetes and supporting services
Why teams hire help
Companies bring in freelance specialists when setup drift becomes risky or releases are too manual. They help clean up old scripts, split large codebases into clear modules, and make changes safer. In Switzerland, this often matters for regulated teams that need clear audit trails and predictable changes.
Tooling and habits
Good Infrastructure as Code work depends on version control, code review, state handling, and testing. Experts also watch for secret leakage, broken dependencies, and unsafe defaults. They write code that other specialists can read, reuse, and update without guesswork.
What strong experts do
- Keep modules small, named clearly, and easy to reuse
- Prevent configuration drift between environments
- Plan imports, state moves, and refactors carefully
- Document inputs, outputs, and operational limits
Where it fits
Infrastructure as Code supports platform engineering, DevOps, and cloud migration work. It is common in fintech, SaaS, e-commerce, and industrial environments where change control matters. The best freelancers understand both delivery speed and the operational rules that keep systems stable.
Frequently asked questions
Everything clients usually want to know about Infrastructure as Code, in one place.
Infrastructure as Code is used to define servers, networks, access rules, and deployment settings in code instead of clicking them in a console. That makes environments repeatable, reviewable, and easier to rebuild after failures. Teams often use it for cloud landing zones, application platforms, and standardized environments for development, testing, and production.
Infrastructure as Code is the practice; Terraform is one of the most common tools used for it. Teams also use Ansible, CloudFormation, Pulumi, and similar tools depending on the stack and the kind of automation they need. A good freelancer knows the difference and picks the tool that fits the environment.
Infrastructure as Code specialists are useful when manual setup has become hard to trust, cloud environments have drifted, or changes take too long to review safely. They are also helpful during migrations, platform rebuilds, and when a team needs cleaner modules and better state management. If releases depend on a few people who know the setup by memory, it is time to get help.
A strong Infrastructure as Code expert usually works comfortably with Git, CI/CD, cloud services, and secrets handling. For many projects, Kubernetes, networking, IAM, and policy controls also matter. The best specialists can explain tradeoffs clearly and keep the code maintainable for other experts.
Simple Infrastructure as Code tasks can be handled by someone with solid tool knowledge and a clear scope. Larger platform work needs someone who has already dealt with state, dependencies, refactoring, and environment separation. If the project touches production systems or regulated workloads, choose a freelancer who has done that kind of work before.
Yes, Infrastructure as Code work is often remote because most of it lives in code, reviews, and cloud accounts. For teams in Switzerland, remote collaboration works well when the specialist can join planning calls, document clearly, and stay available during key change windows. On-site time is only needed when the project has local security, access, or workshop requirements.
Review the Infrastructure as Code code itself, not just the résumé. Good work shows clean module design, safe state handling, readable variable names, and clear plans for testing and rollback. Ask for examples of refactors, migrations, and fixes to broken environments, because that reveals real depth.
Infrastructure as Code usually covers the definition of infrastructure resources, while configuration management often focuses on preparing software and system settings inside those resources. In practice, the two overlap, especially with tools like Terraform and Ansible. A skilled freelancer knows where each one fits and avoids forcing one tool to do both jobs poorly.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Switzerland who have used Infrastructure as Code in their recent projects is 139 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 1,110 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Switzerland who have used Infrastructure as Code in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 60% hold at least a Master's degree, and 20% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Switzerland who have used Infrastructure as Code in their recent projects have 18 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.3 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Infrastructure as Code in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (63%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Infrastructure as Code in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Banking and Finance (75%), and Government and Administration (75%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Infrastructure as Code in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (88%), and Operations (75%).
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