AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02)
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Halil Oeztoprak
Last position:
Senior Cloud Operations & DevSecOps Engineer (Azure / Terraform / CI-CD) at KfW Bankengruppe
Regulated environment within a German banking group (approx. 8,500 employees, hybrid cloud strategy).
Responsible for operating, provisioning, and continuously securing business-critical platforms – including a GenAI chat application, a big data/AI platform, and data science workspaces based on Azure Virtual Desktops and VMs. Ownership of Azure DevOps projects for ShaiHulud and React2Shell, as well as BSI alerts – Security Operations improvements across the SDLC.
Deployment responsibility for the GenAI chat application, big data/AI platform (BDAI), and data science workspaces (AVD/VM-based) in the respective landing zones.
Deployment & release management: end-to-end responsibility for deploying portal and service applications across multiple Azure landing zones, including technical approvals, compliance with development team deployment guidelines, and ensuring ITIL-based change and release processes via ServiceNow.
Azure landing zones & network architecture: design, provisioning, and operation of Azure landing zones for 3-tier web applications with enhanced network segmentation, VNet peering, hub-and-spoke architectures, private endpoints, and firewall integration across separate subscriptions and tenants.
Azure DevOps governance & operations: ownership of the Azure DevOps organization, including projects, repositories, and CI/CD pipelines; implementation of governance requirements such as branch policies, approval gates, permission models, and audit-ready operating structures.
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform): design, implementation, and operation of a modular Terraform architecture for standardized cloud infrastructure deployment, including state management, provider versioning, reusability, and policy-as-code approaches.
CI/CD pipeline engineering: design, operation, and optimization of complex YAML-based CI/CD pipelines with multi-stage deployments, template standardization, self-hosted agents, integrated secret management, and automated quality and security checks.
Git migration & platform consolidation: planning and execution of repository and pipeline migration from Azure DevOps to GitLab CI/CD, including automated scripts, full Git history transfer, pipeline porting, and platform consolidation.
Container & platform operations (AKS): operation and security assessment of containerized workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service, centralization of on-premises container registries for ACR.
OpenShift (OCP) security reviews: security assessment of code baselines, build pipelines, and deployment processes for on-premises OpenShift clusters with critical applications, and derivation of specific hardening recommendations.
Shift-left security & DevSecOps transformation: introduction of a company-wide shift-left approach for early security integration in development and deployment processes, enabling developers to perform self-led security checks and sustainably reduce vulnerabilities before production (IDE integrations, pre-commit hooks, local scanners).
Software supply chain security: analysis and mitigation of supply chain risks in NPM- and Yarn-based applications through dependency audits, CI/CD pipeline hardening, token rotation, and restriction of risky build and lifecycle mechanisms.
Frontend & framework security (React / Next.js): security assessment and coordination of critical vulnerability remediation across platform applications and web frameworks, including coordination and complementary technical mitigations with all teams following BSI alerts.
Software composition analysis (SCA): introduction and operation of automated vulnerability scans for container images, pipelines/artifacts, and third-party dependencies, including SBOM exports within CI/CD pipelines.
SAST/DAST integration: design and piloting of static and dynamic application security tests in close collaboration with security architecture and development teams, for continuous improvement of code and runtime security, and establishing operational acceptance tests.
Artifact & registry consolidation: analysis and consolidation of all package and container repositories for service applications and AKS workloads, aiming for a centralized, secured registry strategy with centralized vulnerability scanning and governance.
Dependency-Track & SBOM strategy: advising the compliance board on introducing a central SBOM and vulnerability management platform to increase enterprise-wide dependency transparency and accelerate CVE response capability.
CI/CD pipeline hardening: security analysis and cleanup of the existing pipeline landscape by removing unused pipelines, improving secrets hygiene, implementing least-privilege principles, and isolating build agent environments.
Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) optimization: analysis and tuning of existing Azure WAF rules (OWASP Top 10 Core Rule Set, DSR/SDC, custom rules) to defend against known vulnerabilities and exploit patterns, including reducing false positives and improving threat detection.
Documentation & stakeholder communication: creating and maintaining technical documentation, runbooks, and architecture overviews in Jira and Confluence, as well as active knowledge transfer between operations, development, security, and compliance stakeholders.
Nune Isabekyan
Last position:
Fractional CTO at OpsWorker
OpsWorker turns Kubernetes alerts into root-cause analyses, on top of the monitoring a team already runs. I lead the technical side: the agent architecture, the AWS infrastructure it runs on (fully inside EU regions), and the engineering decisions behind it, read-only in the cluster by default, human in the loop for judgment. The stack underneath: Amazon Bedrock and Bedrock AgentCore, agents built with the Strands Agents SDK, the Claude and OpenAI APIs, and the Kubernetes API.
Yannick Tessa
Last position:
Cloud Architect at Anonymous
- Implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform to ensure a scalable, repeatable, and secure Azure infrastructure
- Implementation and optimization of CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps
- Management of container and server environments and AKS
Marijn Scholtens
Last position:
Senior Software Engineer at Puls Security GmbH
Optimizing and acceleration of our Gitlab CI pipeline
Conceptual work for the PoC of the Zero Trust system
Extension of the policy-engine backend in Go
Extension of the policy-testing mechanism in Python
Architectural design of the PEP component of Zero Trust
Documentation of the product
Technologies: Zero Trust, Go, Python, Gitlab CI, Docker, JWT, Domain-Driven Design
Alexander Gottschlich
Last position:
DevOps / Platform Engineer at Cologne Intelligence GmbH
- Built and operated an AWS Landing Zone with Terraform / OpenTofu (multi-account structure, IAM baselines, network and security standards)
- Designed and operated platform-oriented AWS architectures to standardize infrastructure and operations processes
- Built and operated Kubernetes-based platforms (EKS) as a shared runtime environment for application teams
- Established GitOps-based deployments with Argo CD and FluxCD
- Developed and operated central CI/CD platforms (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
- Enabled developer and project teams with reusable platform components
- Introduced and implemented FinOps structures (AWS Cost Explorer, CUR + Athena, Infracost, Grafana dashboards)
- Built and operated central observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Alertmanager, CloudWatch)
Cesar Schneider
Last position:
Lead Cloud Engineer at Charge-V GmbH
- Responsible for setting up and configure AWS Organizations and Control Tower on company's master organizational account
- Administer and maintain various AWS services, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, etc.
- Monitor system performance, availability, and capacity planning to ensure scalability and reliability
- Implement and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform
- Work closely with development and operations teams to automate deployment processes using CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD)
- Develop and maintain scripts for automating routine tasks and infrastructure provisioning
- Implement automation for monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure timely incident response
- Implement and enforce security company guidelines and best practices for AWS environments
- Configure and manage AWS security services such as AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS WAF, AWS Shield, etc.
- Collaborate with the Security Team to improve and update security policies and posture
- Collaborate with development teams to provide agile deployments and optimize application performance and reliability on AWS
- Provide technical support and guidance to internal teams on AWS-related issues and best practices
- Participate in cross-functional projects to enhance overall infrastructure and operational efficiency
Dmitriy Drichel
Last position:
Freelance Senior Data Scientist at Merck KgaA
- AWS
- Genedata Profiler
- Data Lake
- APIs
- Rstudio
- GitLab
- Python
- R
- Data acquisition, integration, and simulation
- Multiplex immunofluorescence
- Copy-number variation calling
- HLA typing and loss-of-heterozygosity analysis
- RNA expression analysis
Nicolas Valderrama Barrera
Last position:
Data Analyst & Digital Transformation Consultant at Management Solutions
- Built a Looker-based analytics application with Python preprocessing and AppScript write-back to support client outreach for 50 bankers (scaling to 200).
- Cut manual call-logging time from ~5 minutes to ~1 minute, improving operational efficiency and ensuring audit traceability.
- Delivered dashboards used daily by bankers and weekly by managers to prioritise clients, analyse rejection drivers, and evaluate performance.
- Worked in Agile cycles with stakeholders to iterate data requirements and prepare the platform for rollout to 200+ users.
Banjika Ngo
Last position:
Freelance | AWS Authorized Instructor at Go Courses
- Delivered AWS-authorized content through AAI program
- Facilitated group and 1-on-1 mentorship sessions
- Coached non-technical learners into cloud career paths
- Created learning materials aligned with AWS Skill Builder and AWS Academy labs
Stephan Sahm
Last position:
Senior Data/ML Consultant & Technical Lead at Jolin.io
Role: Software Engineer & Applied Mathematician (Mathematical optimization for scheduling; duration: 1 months; team setting: Team of 2, remote; technologies: JuMP, Julia, Pluto, Svelte, JavaScript, TypeScript, JetBrains Space, Terraform, Nomad)
Role: Software & Cloud & Web Engineer (Building scalable data science compute cluster from scratch; duration: 11 months; team setting: Team of 1, on-site; technologies: Terraform, Kubernetes, k8s ingress, k8s services, k8s RBAC, k8s networking, k3s, etcd, S3, DNS, certificates, Julia, Pluto, JavaScript, Tailwind, Astro, npm, Parcel, Preact, MUI, JWT, AWS SQS, AWS RDS, Python, GitLab, GitHub)
Role: AI & Web Engineer (Custom ChatGPT service; duration: 1 months; team setting: Team of 2, remote; technologies: Python, Poetry, LangChain, Tailwind, ChatGPT API, Flask, FastAPI)
Role: Architect & Data Engineer (Central datalake setup and ingestion; duration: 9 months; team setting: Team of 5, remote; technologies: Infrastructure-as-code, AWS CDK, Python, Boto3, PySpark, AWS Glue, IAM, S3, ECS, Fargate, Lambda, Apache Hudi, DeltaLake, Databricks, GitHub, Jira, Miro)
Role: Software Engineer (PoC Julia migration of scikit-decide; duration: 1 months; team setting: Team of 2, remote; technologies: Python, Julia, GitHub)
Roman Krivtsov
Last position:
Senior Data Engineer / Cloud Architect at DB Systel
- Development of a central billing app for cloud costs at DB
- AWS
- Python
- AWS CDK
- RDS
- Spark (PySpark)
- Glue
- Lambda
- CI/CD (GitLab)
- React/Typescript
- data optimization
- Scrum
Mohamed Anssaien
Last position:
Senior Multi-Cloud Solution Architect at 35X GmbH
- Analyze of customer’s requirements and design architectural solutions for customer projects
- Design and implementation of cloud infrastructure and services: AWS, Azure and OpenStack
- Consulting for cloud architectures and operating concepts
- Data Center migration accompaniment and coordination with developers and Stakeholders
Alexey Gravanov
Last position:
Cloud Architect & DevOps, Head of Architecture at ProSiebenSat.1 Digital GmbH / Seven.One Entertainment Group GmbH
- Co-authored enterprise cloud strategy including security and governance frameworks for 5 subsidiaries, and implemented part of the governance automation.
- Performed regular cloud cost optimization reviews across 10 teams resulting in ~20% cost reduction.
- Led the technology selection for the migration of in-house CIAM for 25M+ accounts to a SaaS solution, and worked with the product team through the migration.
- Supervised the technology selection and designed the architecture and delivery pipelines for the multi-tenant digital news and sports publishing platform, enabling ~250 editors within ~6 months of development start.
- Led the implementation of a multi-brand design system from idea and technical concept to implementation and rollout, enabling rapid UI prototyping for new products in a matter of hours.
- Managed a team of 4 architects and accelerated the professional growth of team members.
- Technologies: AWS cloud, Microservices, Docker, Python, Kafka, JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, Node.js, GraphQL, REST, Gitlab CI, Visual Studio Code, git.
Pappu Prasad
Last position:
Senior Cloud Consultant (AWS Services and Consulting) at devoteam GmbH
- Developed automated ETL pipelines with AWS Glue and Athena to ensure consistent data quality and governance requirements
- Implemented validation, anonymization, and encryption measures for data in compliance with GDPR
- Optimized cloud costs by introducing FinOps practices and increased transparency for business units
- Monitored performance, performed root cause analyses, and ensured adherence to SLAs
- Supported data and solution architects in building scalable data models for ML and analytics scenarios
Jiri Sostok
Last position:
Quality Manager/Test Management at Noriba GmbH
- Creation of test concepts
- Development of test processes
- Coordination of test case development: stress tests, functional tests, performance tests, high data rate tests, integration tests, etc.
- Hardware testing: FPGA, RF
- Test automation and regression testing
- Ensuring 24/7 operation of the test system
- Analysis & reporting
- Regular coordination of the test team, meetings with other stakeholders
- Communication and coordination with stakeholders and project managers
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) statistics
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
15 years
Position duration
2.6 years
Positions per freelancer
8
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Banking and Finance
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Operations
Bachelor's degree or higher
73%
Master's degree or higher
67%
Doctorate
13%
Certifications per freelancer
14
Most common languages
English, German, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 26 Aug 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates for AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) in Germany
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 26 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
About the certification
What it proves
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, also searched as AWS Solutions Architect Professional or SAP-C02, is the top-level architecture credential from Amazon Web Services. It shows that a professional can design and review large AWS environments, make platform decisions under real constraints, and defend those choices in front of engineering and business stakeholders.
Core strengths
- Designing multi-account and multi-region AWS setups
- Choosing the right mix of compute, storage, networking, and identity controls
- Building for security, resilience, cost control, and operational clarity
- Planning migrations, modernization, and hybrid connectivity
- Making architecture trade-offs for complex enterprise workloads
Typical profile
Holders are often senior cloud architects, lead engineers, platform specialists, or consultants who have worked in production AWS environments for years. They are expected to move beyond service knowledge and think in systems, failure modes, governance, and long-term maintainability.
In Germany, this profile is especially relevant for companies running regulated workloads, shared platforms, or large migration programs that need clear AWS design leadership. Remote cooperation is common, but on-site workshops can help when architecture decisions must align with local teams, security, or operations.
Knowledge behind the badge
The certification focuses on advanced AWS architecture work, not single-service usage. It covers practical design choices around identity and access, network segmentation, observability, disaster recovery, migration paths, and application integration.
- Security and identity design across accounts and teams
- Resilient architecture and recovery planning
- Network design, routing, and private connectivity
- Operational monitoring and automation
- Cost-aware design at enterprise scale
What companies get
A freelancer with the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional credential can help when a solution must be safe, scalable, and defensible. This is the person you bring in for architecture reviews, cloud platform redesign, landing zone work, and complex migration decisions where mistakes are expensive.
For a hiring team, the signal is clear: the person should understand AWS deeply enough to compare options, explain risks, and document architecture choices in a way that developers, security teams, and managers can all follow.
When it matters most
This certification matters most in projects with many systems, many stakeholders, and little room for guesswork. It is a strong fit for financial services, e-commerce, software products, manufacturing, and public-sector environments using AWS in Germany or across European teams.
It is also useful when a company needs a freelancer who can step into an existing cloud estate, identify weak points, and improve the architecture without disrupting delivery.
Frequently asked questions
Curious about AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02)? Here are the answers that come up again and again.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) validates advanced AWS architecture judgment. It shows that a freelancer can design complex cloud systems, compare trade-offs, and build for security, resilience, and operational control. For companies, that is more useful than a simple list of services: it signals real architecture capability.
AWS Solutions Architect Professional goes deeper than the Associate level. The Associate credential checks whether someone can design common AWS solutions, while the Professional level expects stronger experience with enterprise patterns, multi-account design, hybrid environments, and difficult architectural decisions. It is aimed at people who already work with AWS at a senior level.
SAP-C02 is a fit for senior cloud architects, solution architects, platform engineers, and consultants who already spend time designing or reviewing AWS systems. It is less about first contact with AWS and more about proving judgment in real projects. If someone is responsible for architecture decisions, this certification can be a strong signal.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional is valuable in migration programs, landing zone design, platform standardization, disaster recovery planning, and application modernization. It also matters when a company needs help with complex governance, private connectivity, or multi-team AWS operating models. In Germany, it is often relevant for companies that need architecture support in regulated or enterprise settings.
A strong AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional candidate should already be comfortable designing AWS systems in production. Preparation usually means revisiting core AWS services, architecture patterns, security design, network layout, and recovery strategies, then applying them to messy real-world scenarios. The exam is known for testing decision-making, not memorized definitions.
Yes. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional is maintained through AWS recertification rules, so professionals need to keep their credential current over time. AWS may update the exam content as the platform changes, so the practical expectation is ongoing learning rather than a one-time achievement.
If a freelancer holds AWS Solutions Architect Professional, you can expect strong AWS design experience and mature communication around technical trade-offs. In Germany, that can be especially useful when English is the working language but architecture discussions still need to fit local business and compliance needs. It is a good sign for remote collaboration, and also for workshops with in-house teams.
Yes. SAP-C02 is the exam code for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional credential. People may also call it AWS SA Pro or AWS Solutions Architect Professional. When you see any of those names, they point to the same advanced AWS architecture certification.
The average hourly rate for freelancers with AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) in Germany is 103 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 823 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers with AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) in Germany, 73% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 67% hold at least a Master's degree, and 13% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers with AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) in Germany have 15 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.6 years.
The most common languages among freelancers with AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) in Germany are English (100%), German (95%), and Spanish (26%).
The most common industries among freelancers with AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) in Germany are Information Technology (84%), Professional Services (47%), and Banking and Finance (32%).
The most common business areas among freelancers with AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) in Germany are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (63%), and Operations (58%).
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