Zero Trust Experts in Switzerland
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Yannick H.
Last position:
Managing Director and Trusted Advisor at ODCUS
ODCUS makes sure AI works alongside people in the day-to-day operations of Swiss SMEs while keeping their data secure: vendor-independent, pragmatic and without hidden agendas. We make a company's knowledge useful to AI, automate workflows and protect what matters.
I transform IT from a cost factor into a competitive advantage. As the founder of ODCUS, I advise Swiss SMEs and mid-sized companies—independently, with a focus on results and without hidden agendas.
What drives me: Too many companies invest in technology without knowing its business value. That is where we come in: we always advise on IT in the context of the business and its success.
My focus areas:
- Cybersecurity – Pragmatic protection that fits the business
- Compliance – NIS2, ISO 27001, EU AI Act without excessive bureaucracy
- IT costs – Create transparency, eliminate waste
- AI – From pilot project to measurable value creation
Klaus S.
Last position:
Senior Finance Consultant and Project Manager at Start Up
- Establishment of a licensing model
- Preparation of the documents required to attract investors (business plan, liquidity calculation, ROI etc.)
- Marketing simulation of market development, evaluation of market potential etc.
- Definition and implementation of KPIs to measure market penetration
- Establishment of project planning, project controlling and business processes
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
Ralf R.
Last position:
Infrastructure-as-Code Transformation Architect at ODDO BHF
Responsible for designing and delivering a company-wide, comprehensive Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) transformation in a regulated banking environment.
Conducted an assessment of the current infrastructure, processes, tools, teams, ways of working and skill profiles as a basis for the target architecture and a PDO (Product-Driven Organization)
Defined a tailored, audit-ready Everything-as-Code infrastructure (including governance, security and compliance)
Built a comprehensive IaC operating model, integrating and transforming internal teams
Designed standardised, reusable Terraform modules for infrastructure and platform services
Integrated secrets management, PKI and Encryption-as-a-Service to secure critical VMware and Kubernetes platform components and stored data
Implemented the platform in line with regulatory requirements (DORA, BaFin, ACPR, CRA), with a focus on auditability and traceability
The initiative provides the foundation for standardised, automated and audit-ready infrastructure, reduces manual intervention and enables scalable, traceable delivery of IT resources in a banking environment.
Alexander L.
Last position:
Project Manager, Architect at Public Client
- Update from Windows 10 to Windows 11
- Involvement in the design of the new workplace
- Planning and management of the rollout
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Statistics of experts using Zero Trust
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
13 years
Position duration
1.5 years
Positions per freelancer
14
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Top industries
Banking and Finance, Information Technology, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Legal
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
50%
Certifications per freelancer
3
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 Zero Trust
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.
Zero Trust experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Banking and Finance (83%)
- Information Technology (83%)
- Professional Services (83%)
- Government and Administration (83%)
- Insurance (67%)
- Energy (50%)
- Retail (50%)
- Telecommunication (50%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What Zero Trust means
Zero Trust is a security model built on the principle of continuous verification. It does not automatically trust users, devices or applications because they are inside a corporate network. Access is granted according to identity, device health, context and least-privilege policy, then reviewed as conditions change.
What it secures
Zero Trust protects modern environments where staff, partners, applications and data operate across offices, private infrastructure and public clouds. Typical work includes:
- Identity and access management for workforce and service accounts
- Conditional access based on device, location and risk
- Micro-segmentation for data centres, applications and workloads
- Secure remote access without broad network exposure
- Monitoring and response for suspicious activity
Ecosystem and tooling
The ecosystem includes identity providers such as Microsoft Entra ID and Okta, endpoint controls, privileged access management, software-defined perimeter tools and security information platforms. Specialists may also work with Zscaler, Cloudflare, Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike and native controls in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud. Strong delivery connects these tools through policy, automation and reliable logging.
When companies need specialists
Companies often bring in freelance expertise during cloud migrations, hybrid-work changes, audits, acquisitions or security programme redesigns. A specialist can assess the current trust model, map identities and data flows, define a practical Zero Trust Architecture, and turn policy into enforceable controls. In Switzerland, remote delivery is common, while regulated or complex environments may require on-site workshops and clear communication in English, German or French.
Project deliverables
A capable professional can produce an assessment, target architecture, access policy catalogue and phased implementation plan. Deliverables may also include identity lifecycle workflows, segmentation rules, device compliance requirements, privileged access processes, detection use cases and operational runbooks. The work should fit existing security operations rather than create isolated controls that teams cannot maintain.
What strong professionals bring
Strong Zero Trust professionals understand that the model is broader than a product rollout. They connect business roles to technical permissions, test policies against real user journeys and document exceptions with clear owners. Look for experience across identity, networking, endpoints, cloud security and incident response, plus the ability to explain trade-offs to security teams, IT operations and business stakeholders.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers to the questions that come up most around Zero Trust.
Zero Trust is used to control access to applications, data, networks and infrastructure through continuous verification. It supports secure remote work, cloud adoption, third-party access and protection against compromised accounts or devices.
A Zero Trust Architecture does not treat an internal network location as proof that access is safe. Traditional perimeter security focuses heavily on keeping threats outside, while Zero Trust limits access at the identity, device, application and data level even after a user enters the environment.
A strong Zero Trust specialist usually combines identity and access management with network segmentation, endpoint security, cloud security and security monitoring. Knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, privileged access management and infrastructure automation can also be valuable, depending on the environment.
The right level of experience depends on the scope, existing controls and regulatory pressure. A focused access-policy review may need a specialist for a defined phase, while a company-wide Zero Trust programme requires experience across architecture, implementation, change management and ongoing operations.
Zero Trust work is often suitable for remote collaboration because assessment, policy design and configuration can be handled through secure tools. On-site workshops may still help with stakeholder alignment, sensitive infrastructure reviews or complex hybrid environments, particularly when teams are distributed across Switzerland.
Zero Trust security is commonly evaluated alongside secure access service edge, software-defined perimeter, network access control and traditional VPN approaches. These are not always direct substitutes: a Zero Trust programme can use several of them while applying identity-based, least-privilege access consistently.
Ask a Zero Trust professional to explain how they would map identities, devices, applications and data before recommending controls. Good work includes measurable policy logic, documented exceptions, staged rollout plans, usable logs and clear ownership for ongoing operation.
Zero Trust Architecture projects require more than configuring an identity product. Freelancers should understand the client’s business processes, legacy dependencies, cloud model, security operations and user experience, then communicate how each control reduces risk without blocking legitimate work.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Switzerland who have used Zero Trust in their recent projects is 115 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 923 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Switzerland who have used Zero Trust in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 50% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Switzerland who have used Zero Trust in their recent projects have 13 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.5 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Zero Trust in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (50%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Zero Trust in their recent projects are Banking and Finance (83%), Information Technology (83%), and Professional Services (83%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Switzerland who have used Zero Trust in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (83%), and Project Management (83%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Zero Trust
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.
Countries:
- Germany
- Switzerland
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