Prometheus 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.
Karl F.
Last position:
Managing Director at ONECEPT GmbH
Michail M.
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.
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
Jaroslav A.
Last position:
Child care, personal development and learning
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
Tobias F.
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 G.
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 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.
Christian H.
Last position:
Senior Full Stack Developer at Adria Magazin GmbH
Jesolo Tickets – Booking platform for tickets
Design and implementation of a multi-tenant booking platform for the online sale of bus and ferry tickets in the Jesolo region of 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 are provided live via the transport providers' APIs; after payment, tickets are automatically delivered as QR-coded PDFs – with no manual issuing required.
- 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 allows the platform to grow with every customer.
- Clean architecture: Three-layer structure (Handlers → Services → Data Store) with caching – availability queries remain 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
19 years
Position duration
3.6 years
Positions per freelancer
9
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Education, Banking and Finance
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Human Resources
Bachelor's degree or higher
77%
Master's degree or higher
31%
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 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 19 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Prometheus 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 (93%)
- Education (33%)
- Banking and Finance (33%)
- Healthcare (27%)
- Insurance (27%)
- Transportation (27%)
- Professional Services (27%)
- Government and Administration (27%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What Prometheus Does
Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting system built around time-series data. It collects numeric metrics from applications, services, hosts and infrastructure, then stores them with labels for flexible querying. PromQL makes it possible to investigate trends, define service health indicators and trigger alerts from observed conditions.
Core Architecture
A Prometheus setup usually includes exporters, scrape targets, recording rules and alerting rules. Prometheus discovers endpoints through static configuration, service discovery or orchestration integrations, while Alertmanager groups, routes and silences notifications. Long-term storage can extend the system through remote write and remote read integrations.
Ecosystem And Tools
- Configure PromQL queries, recording rules and alert rules
- Connect Node Exporter, Blackbox Exporter and application metrics
- Integrate Alertmanager with email, chat and incident systems
- Build Grafana dashboards from Prometheus data
- Monitor Kubernetes workloads through service discovery
Prometheus commonly works with OpenMetrics-compatible instrumentation, Grafana, Kubernetes and cloud-native observability tools. Strong specialists also understand exporters, scraping behavior, label design and metric cardinality.
Where Companies Use It
Prometheus supports observability for microservices, APIs, container platforms, databases and distributed systems. It helps teams track latency, throughput, errors, resource saturation and availability across environments. Companies in Austria may use it in software products, manufacturing, finance, logistics and managed infrastructure, with remote or on-site collaboration depending on operational needs.
When To Bring In Expertise
- Existing alerts are noisy, incomplete or difficult to act on
- Kubernetes monitoring needs reliable discovery and dashboards
- Metric storage is growing without a clear retention strategy
- Teams need SLOs, recording rules or production-ready runbooks
Freelance expertise is useful during an observability rollout, a migration from another monitoring tool, or a major platform change. A specialist can also review an established setup and improve its query performance, alert quality and operational ownership.
What Strong Specialists Know
Good Prometheus professionals connect metrics to real operational decisions rather than collecting data indiscriminately. They design meaningful labels, control cardinality, protect sensitive endpoints and test alerts under realistic failure conditions. They can explain trade-offs between local retention and scalable storage, document ownership clearly and work effectively with teams in Austria or across distributed locations.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about Prometheus? Start with the answers below.
Prometheus is used to collect, store and query time-series metrics from applications, infrastructure and services. Companies use it for dashboards, alerting, capacity planning and service-level monitoring, often alongside Grafana and Alertmanager.
Prometheus provides an open-source, pull-based metrics model with PromQL and a strong cloud-native ecosystem. Datadog offers a managed observability suite, while InfluxDB uses a different storage and query approach; the right choice depends on hosting preferences, data scope and operational capacity.
A strong Prometheus specialist should understand Grafana, Alertmanager, Kubernetes, Linux and service discovery. Experience with OpenMetrics instrumentation, cloud platforms, infrastructure as code and incident response is also valuable.
The required experience depends on the scope. Prometheus configuration for a small service is different from designing a multi-cluster observability system with remote storage, retention policies and carefully governed alerting.
Prometheus work is often suitable for remote collaboration because configuration, dashboards and queries can be reviewed through shared repositories and environments. On-site work may help when monitoring connects to restricted production networks, physical systems or sensitive operational processes in Austria.
Ask a Prometheus professional to explain label strategy, cardinality control, scrape reliability and alert routing in practical terms. Review examples of dashboards, runbooks and incident improvements, and check whether the specialist connects technical metrics to clear operational outcomes.
Prometheus focuses on metrics, so it does not replace logs or distributed traces. It can form the metrics layer of an observability stack that also uses tools such as Loki, OpenTelemetry or Jaeger for different diagnostic questions.
A typical Prometheus engagement may deliver scrape configurations, exporters, recording rules, alert definitions, Alertmanager routes and Grafana dashboards. It should also include documentation, ownership guidance, validation steps and recommendations for retention, security and future scaling.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Austria who have used Prometheus in their recent projects is 91 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 731 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Austria who have used Prometheus in their recent projects, 77% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 31% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Austria who have used Prometheus in their recent projects have 19 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.6 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Austria who have used Prometheus in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (20%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Austria who have used Prometheus in their recent projects are Information Technology (93%), Education (33%), and Banking and Finance (33%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Austria who have used Prometheus in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (80%), and Operations (67%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Prometheus
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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Vienna Countries:
- Germany
- Austria
- Switzerland
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