Prometheus 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.
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
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
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
Patrik Germann
Last position:
Engineering & Development at TOBG Services Ltd
- Increased system uptime and performance while decreasing costs. Managing server infrastructure for DLT and application services
- Design and implement AI-workflow automation
- Developed the stakit.io App using Redis, Prometheus, Grafana
- Creating a multi-AI chat App with advanced AI-integration
- Developing an AI-powered document analysis solution for in-house and service deployment
Bernhard Keprt
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
Jaroslav Abraham
Last position:
Child care, personal development and learning
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.
Christian Hutzinger
Last position:
Senior Full Stack Developer at Adria Magazin GmbH
Jesolo Tickets – Booking platform for tickets
Concept and implementation of a multi-tenant booking platform for the online sale of bus and ferry tickets in the Jesolo region (Northern Italy). Travel agencies and event organizers embed a customizable booking widget on their own websites; travelers check live availability, book multiple passengers, and pay online in just a few clicks.
- Real-time booking: Schedules and prices come live via the transport providers' API; after payment, the tickets are automatically delivered as QR-coded PDFs – with no manual issuance.
- Provider architecture: New providers can be onboarded without code changes; an origin-based multi-tenant model with its own domain and payment configuration for each partner site makes the platform grow with every customer.
- Clean architecture: 3-tier structure (handlers → services → data store) with caching – availability checks stay fast and maintainable even with many parallel requests.
Tech stack: Go, Echo, PostgreSQL (pgx), Stripe, Web Components, Tailwind CSS, esbuild, Docker, GitLab CI, Hetzner VPS
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Statistics of experts using Prometheus
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
20 years
Position duration
3.9 years
Positions per freelancer
9
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Healthcare, Insurance
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Business Intelligence
Bachelor's degree or higher
75%
Master's degree or higher
25%
Certifications per freelancer
4
Most common languages
German, English, Russian
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates of experts in Austria using Prometheus
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 does
Prometheus is a monitoring and alerting system for metrics. It collects time series data from services, nodes, containers, and APIs, then makes that data useful for troubleshooting and capacity planning. Companies use it to see what changed, when it changed, and which part of the stack needs attention.
Typical work
- Design scrape targets and metric naming
- Write PromQL queries for dashboards and alerts
- Set up Alertmanager routing and deduplication
- Tune recording rules for cleaner reporting
- Integrate exporters for databases, Linux, and apps
Ecosystem
Prometheus rarely stands alone. It is often paired with Grafana for dashboards, Alertmanager for incident routing, and exporters for systems such as Node Exporter, Blackbox Exporter, PostgreSQL, or Kubernetes components. Strong specialists know how these parts fit together and keep the metrics model consistent.
When to bring in help
Companies bring in freelance Prometheus experts when monitoring is missing, noisy, or hard to trust. That often happens after cloud migration, during Kubernetes rollouts, or when teams need better service-level signals for production support. In Austria, this work is often done remotely, with on-site sessions useful for platform reviews or handover workshops.
What strong specialists do
Good professionals do more than add dashboards. They define clear alert thresholds, reduce duplicate signals, and build metrics that answer real operational questions. They also know how to work with application teams, infrastructure specialists, and SRE-style practices without turning every graph into a custom project.
Skills to look for
A strong Prometheus specialist understands metrics design, scraping intervals, PromQL, alert rules, exporters, and retention planning. They should also know the limits of the tool: Prometheus is excellent for metrics, but logs and traces need other observability tools. That broader view helps keep the monitoring stack simple and reliable.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about Prometheus? Start with the answers below.
Prometheus is used to collect and query metrics from services, infrastructure, and cloud workloads. Companies rely on it for alerting, dashboarding, and root-cause analysis when something changes in production. It is especially useful where teams need clear signals from many moving parts.
Prometheus is the metrics engine, while Grafana is mainly for visualization. Compared with Datadog, it offers more control and usually fits teams that want an open stack they can run themselves. Against Zabbix, Prometheus is often preferred for modern service metrics, labels, and PromQL-based querying.
A strong Prometheus specialist should also know Grafana, Alertmanager, and exporters. Kubernetes, Linux, container observability, and basic incident management are common adjacent skills. For application teams, PromQL and metric design matter just as much as the tool itself.
Prometheus work can be small or deep depending on the environment. A simple alerting refresh may only need someone with solid operational experience, while a multi-service platform with Kubernetes and custom exporters needs a more advanced specialist. The main test is whether they can keep alerts useful and metrics consistent.
Yes, Prometheus work is often remote because most tasks are configuration, query writing, and review sessions. On-site time can still help when teams want whiteboard planning, incident workshops, or a close look at the current monitoring setup. For Austrian companies, English is often enough for the technical work, though German can help in day-to-day collaboration.
Ask which parts of Prometheus they have actually delivered: scraping setup, PromQL, alerting, or migration from another stack. You should also ask how they keep alert noise down and how they document the metric model. The best answer is concrete and tied to real production systems.
A good Prometheus setup has clear metric names, stable scrape targets, and alerts that map to real operational risk. Dashboards should answer specific questions, not just display every available metric. If the system is easy to maintain and teams trust the alerts, the implementation is likely sound.
Yes, Prometheus remains a strong choice for cloud-native monitoring, especially with Kubernetes and microservices. It fits teams that want flexible scraping, label-based queries, and an open ecosystem around Grafana and Alertmanager. It is less suited to teams that want a fully managed black-box service with minimal setup.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Austria who have used Prometheus in their recent projects is 92 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 733 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Austria who have used Prometheus in their recent projects, 75% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 25% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Austria who have used Prometheus in their recent projects have 20 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.9 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Austria who have used Prometheus in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and Russian (23%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Austria who have used Prometheus in their recent projects are Information Technology (92%), Healthcare (31%), and Insurance (31%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Austria who have used Prometheus in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (77%), and Operations (69%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Prometheus
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