Prometheus Experts in Switzerland
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Mohamad K.
Last position:
Senior Backend Developer at Standing on Giants
- Led architecture and end-to-end engineering delivery for community-driven SaaS platforms serving 2M+ monthly active users.
- Architected and led the migration of a monolithic Python/FastAPI and PostgreSQL database and LangChain with codebase to an event-driven microservices architecture on AWS EKS, sustaining 10x traffic growth from ~150 RPS to 1,500+ RPS with zero re-architecture cycles.
- Defined and enforced engineering standards across services including API contracts, observability baselines, and deployment topology, reducing production incidents by 55% and MTTR from 2 hours to under 25 minutes within 9 months.
- Redesigned the caching and query layer using multi-tier Redis caching and database indexing/partitioning, cutting p95 API latency from 850ms to 180ms (78% reduction) and database CPU load by 45%.
- Built CI/CD platform on GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Kubernetes (EKS) with blue-green and canary rollouts, increasing deployment frequency from ~2/month to 8-12/day and reducing lead time from 10 days to under 6 hours.
- Implemented contract testing, automated load testing, and observability SLOs using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry, raising platform availability from 99.5% to 99.95% (10x reduction in error budget burn).
- Led and grew a cross-functional team of 8 engineers across backend, frontend, and DevOps, scaling headcount from 4 to 8 with 85% retention; owned hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and career development.
- Partnered with Product, Design, and Client Success leadership as primary technical decision-maker; translated business goals into technical roadmaps and drove build-vs-buy decisions on authentication, search, and AI tooling.
- Introduced AI-assisted development workflows including automated code review and a RAG-based internal knowledge assistant using Graph (GraphRAG, Neo4J), increasing sprint throughput by 30% across two quarters.
- Owned incident command and production support rotation; established runbooks, postmortem culture, and on-call SLOs, reducing weekend paging incidents by 70%.
- Developed and optimized Algorithms using python libraries like Numpy and Pandas.
Christoph P.
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 a 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% by optimizing CI/CD pipelines and establishing 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
Piotr C.
Last position:
Full Stack Software Developer at Meteomatics AG
- Created the MetX Assistant and was its primary driver from concept through production with real users; designed and oversaw telemetry and presented the system in demos.
- Built React, TypeScript and Python features for MetX, a scientific weather visualization platform; integrated internal data APIs and improved caching, request handling and rendering workflows.
- Contributed to company MCP tooling and led AI workshops and internal automation initiatives, including experiments connecting AI agents with Slack, Jira and Git.
- Acted as the team's Observability and DevOps subject matter expert, supporting service reliability, deployment workflows, monitoring and troubleshooting.
- Participated in Security, Observability and AI Communities of Practice.
Milan S.
Last position:
Cloud Architect & DevOps at Avaloq
- Main cloud solution architect on a banking SaaS offering hosted in Azure.
- Fully automated the Azure infrastructure in Terraform.
- Reduced cloud costs by 50%.
- Responded to incidents, found root-causes and closed with post-mortems.
Yuri G.
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
Venkata R.
Last position:
Continuous Learning at Personal Time Off
- ZHAW CAS Secure Software Design and Development
- German C1 and Goethe Certificate C1
- ETH CAS Cloud and Mobile Computing at ETH Zurich
- Linux Foundation Linux System Administration LFS307
- Linux Foundation Kubernetes Fundamentals LFS258
- Linux Foundation Kubernetes for Application Developers LFD459
- Linux Foundation Kubernetes Security Fundamentals LFS460
Patrick R.
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
Yassin B.
Last position:
Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) at Schweizerweg Gmbh
- Designed and executed automated and manual test cases for REST APIs and UI workflows using Selenide, Selenium, and Postman.
- Developed and maintained Gatling-based performance tests for simulating user load and validating system responsiveness and stability under stress.
- Integrated test suites into CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, enabling rapid and reliable delivery cycles.
- Employed Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus to monitor logs, track metrics, and perform in-depth application performance monitoring (APM).
- Utilized Swagger for validating and documenting API contracts and ensuring consistency across environments.
- Created and managed isolated test environments using Docker, enabling reproducible and consistent test execution.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams using Confluence, Jira, and Bitbucket for agile planning, documentation, and version control.
- Worked in a Java/Spring Boot tech stack, leveraging Maven for project build automation and IntelliJ IDEA for development and debugging.
Key Achievements:
- Built a reusable Selenide-based UI automation framework that reduced test creation time by over 50%.
- Automated end-to-end test scenarios for critical business workflows, increasing test coverage and release confidence.
- Designed a modular Gatling load testing framework, used for continuous performance benchmarking.
- Detected and resolved several critical production performance issues through proactive APM and stress testing.
Csaba K.
Last position:
ServiceNow Consultant at DXC
- Worked in mixed teams with several clients
- Performed requirement engineering, proposal and time estimation
- Developed ACLs, business rules, flows, workflows, catalog items, various scripts, UI actions, policies, scoped applications
- Customized mobile apps: Now Agent and Now Mobile
- Implemented integrations using the Integration Hub
- Coordinated continuously with clients during development
- Performed testing and helped clients with testing
- Deployed to production and applied main version upgrades and patches
- Managed CMDB, domain separation and asset management
- Integrated between instances at different clients
- Developed GlideScript: business rules, scripted REST endpoints, extension points, fix scripts, background scripts
Karl E.
Last position:
incl. CI/CD, automation at AALS Software AG
- Designed and delivered a practical real-time course on Flink and Hadoop with MapReduce, HDFS, Spark, Flink, Hive, HBase, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Kafka
- Gained extensive DevOps and CI/CD experience
- Created ETL/ELT pipelines with Apache tools and Pentaho
- Led projects in municipal software, financial services, and big data with Kafka
- Developed AI/NLP models and chatbots with RASA, Chatter, and Dialogflow
- Built and managed a TypeDB knowledge database
- Worked with OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Podman
Stephan R.
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.
Eko S.
Last position:
Forward Deployed Engineer at Kistler Group
- Talked with business units to scope, build, and ship on-premise AI bots and chatbots
- Shipped a general-purpose agentic AI assistant on MCP architecture
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Statistics of experts using Prometheus
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
22 years
Position duration
2.4 years
Positions per freelancer
12
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Education
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
67%
Certifications per freelancer
6
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Switzerland are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows the share of experts charging within that range.
Average rates of experts in Switzerland 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 29 Oct 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 (100%)
- Banking and Finance (67%)
- Education (42%)
- Government and Administration (42%)
- Automotive (33%)
- Professional Services (33%)
- Retail (33%)
- Telecommunication (33%)
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 for collecting time-series data. It stores metrics with labels, evaluates queries through PromQL and triggers alerts when defined conditions are met. Companies use it to understand application health, infrastructure capacity and service reliability.
Core monitoring work
Prometheus experts configure scraping, recording rules and alert rules for production environments. They define useful labels, protect the monitoring system from excessive cardinality and design metrics that support practical operational decisions. They also connect alert delivery to channels such as Alertmanager, email and incident response tools.
Ecosystem and tooling
The Prometheus ecosystem covers exporters, client libraries and integrations for common infrastructure and applications. Strong specialists often work with:
- Grafana dashboards and data sources
- Alertmanager routing, grouping and silencing
- Node Exporter, Blackbox Exporter and custom exporters
- Kubernetes service discovery and operator-based deployments
Prometheus remote storage integrations can extend retention and support wider observability architectures.
Where companies use it
Teams bring in Prometheus for Kubernetes platforms, cloud services, containerized applications and distributed systems. It is also used in financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, retail and public-sector environments where service availability and operational visibility matter. In Switzerland, experts may support regulated organizations while collaborating remotely with local platform and security teams.
When freelance expertise helps
Companies often need specialist support during a platform migration, an observability rollout or a reliability improvement program. Typical assignments include:
- Replacing fragmented infrastructure checks with metrics-based monitoring
- Building alerting standards for multiple teams or clusters
- Improving dashboards and reducing noisy notifications
- Integrating Prometheus with existing logging and tracing systems
Freelancers can also review a setup before a major release or transfer monitoring knowledge to an internal team.
What strong specialists deliver
Good Prometheus professionals connect technical configuration with business impact. They choose metrics that explain user-facing behavior, write efficient PromQL and test alerts under realistic failure conditions. They understand cardinality, retention, scrape security and high availability rather than treating dashboards as the final deliverable.
They also communicate clearly with application, infrastructure and security teams. Experience with Kubernetes, Grafana, Linux, networking and infrastructure as code helps them trace an incident from a visible symptom to its underlying cause.
Frequently asked questions
Need clarity? These are the questions we hear most often about Prometheus.
Prometheus collects and stores time-series metrics from applications, services, servers and platforms. Teams use PromQL to investigate behavior and Alertmanager to route alerts when systems breach defined conditions.
Prometheus is especially strong for dimensional metrics, service discovery and Kubernetes-oriented environments. It is often compared with systems such as InfluxDB, Zabbix, Datadog and cloud-native monitoring services, so the right choice depends on retention, hosting, integrations and operational preferences.
A strong Prometheus specialist usually understands Grafana, Alertmanager, Kubernetes and Linux. Knowledge of exporters, container orchestration, networking, infrastructure as code, logging and distributed tracing makes the monitoring work more complete.
The answer depends on the scope. A focused dashboard or exporter task may need limited support, while a production rollout requires a Prometheus professional who can design metric conventions, control cardinality, secure scraping and test alert behavior.
Yes. Prometheus configuration, dashboards, queries and documentation are well suited to remote collaboration. On-site sessions can still help when the work involves private infrastructure, incident workshops or close coordination with Swiss operations and security teams.
No. Prometheus focuses on metrics and alerting, while logs provide event detail and traces show request paths across services. The three signals work best together through an observability design that defines how teams move from an alert to evidence and root cause.
Ask whether the Prometheus professional can explain metric ownership, label choices, alert thresholds and failure scenarios. Quality work produces actionable alerts, efficient queries, understandable dashboards and documentation that another team can maintain.
The Prometheus ecosystem includes client libraries, exporters, Grafana, Alertmanager and integrations with Kubernetes and remote storage systems. Professionals should understand how these parts affect scrape load, data retention, alert reliability and day-to-day operations.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Switzerland who have used Prometheus in their recent projects is 112 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 899 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Switzerland who have used Prometheus in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 67% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Switzerland who have used Prometheus in their recent projects have 22 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.4 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Prometheus in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (25%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Prometheus in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Banking and Finance (67%), and Education (42%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Prometheus in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (100%), and Quality Assurance (67%).
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