Security Engineer in Germany
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Rudolf Eggelbusch
Last position:
Datacenter Engineer, Network & Security Administrator at International insurance group
Operation and further development of the network and security infrastructure.
Monitoring, analysis and resolution of network and security incidents.
Cross-department collaboration with other specialist teams for operations, further development and reporting.
Firewall vulnerability analysis.
Firewall rule approvals.
Troubleshooting IP communication issues in the network and firewall infrastructure.
Security-critical IT infrastructure, processing of personal data, compliance with legal regulations.
Products: Palo Alto Networks Firewalls, Cisco ACI, Checkpoint Firewalls, F5
Technologies: SDN, SDWAN, Cisco EPIC, Cisco ACI
Firas Jradi
Last position:
Interim Management Group Head of IT Governance & IAM at French-German Private Bank
- Head of the group-wide, international, and cross-functional IT Governance & IAM department within the central IT division of a large French-German private banking group. Disciplinary management of around 30 employees at five different locations within the group (Frankfurt, Paris, Tunis, Saarbrücken, Düsseldorf). Head of IT committees and key role in direct communication with management, the supervisory board, external stakeholders, and regulators.
- Definition and establishment of a state-of-the-art IT strategy process and related IT governance structures for the group's IT department with more than 600 employees (testified by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority and the ACPR) and successful process run.
- Establishment of a new future-oriented process framework for IT and necessary governance structures (process squads) for the continuous improvement of IT processes with regard to new regulatory requirements (including DORA, EU AI Act, etc.).
- Establishment of stringent processes to close a historical backlog of findings (> 100 IT findings, 40 overdue findings in 2022) from internal and external auditors (WP, ACPR, BaFin). Successful reduction of stock of overdue findings to 0 at the end of 2025.
- Supporting more than 20 IT audits per year and establishment of regulatory monitoring processes. Introduction of ServiceNow to revolutionize regulatory change and IT compliance processes with advanced AI functionalities.
- Realignment of IT control processes in conjunction with the newly established ICT risk function under DORA and the three lines of defense concept using the TopEase GRC solution.
- Reduction of the application landscape, by systematically analysing the purpose with application and business owners, identifying duplicates while implementing a One-Tool Strategy throughout the group. Successful reduction of one third of the application landscape within the CMDB.
- Onboarding of all group applications into One Identity's group-wide IAM solution, as well as operation and further development of the solution in connection with segregation of duties (SoD), role-based access management (RBAC), etc.
Kartheek Kumar Kothapalli
Last position:
Advisor & Investor (Limited Partner) at Destrosolutions
- Advised the executive team on the strategy, architecture, and development of an AI-powered Product Security Operations Center (PSOC); a cybersecurity operating system for software-defined cyber physical connected systems.
- Provided strategic guidance on product vision, regulatory alignment, and market positioning, supporting capabilities across threat intelligence, vulnerability management, compliance automation, and autonomous product security.
Steffen Lotze
Last position:
Consultant for BSI baseline protection and ISO 27701 at Society for International Cooperation
- Support in building and further developing the information security management system
- Cooperation with external consultants in the certification team for the support structure
- Involvement in project planning, identification, and implementation of the necessary measures according to BSI IT baseline protection
- Professional support for in-house subject matter experts in creating the documents required for certifications
- Carrying out the work according to BSI 200-2
Sumalatha Bhuchupalle
Last position:
Copilot Cloud Security Chatbot | AI / LLM at Banyan Cloud
Conversational AI assistant for cloud infrastructure and security queries
- Designed FastAPI backend with multi-turn conversation handler, token budgeting, and context window management.
- Integrated Amazon Bedrock (Claude 3 Sonnet/Haiku); built RAG pipeline with MongoDB chat history and semantic search.
- Implemented Factory Pattern for modular LLM provider switching; reduced model onboarding effort by 60%.
- Reduced LLM inference cost by 35% through model tiering (Haiku vs Sonnet) and prompt/entity consolidation.
Tech: Python, FastAPI, Amazon Bedrock, MongoDB, Streamlit, Pydantic.
Peter Konrad
Last position:
IT Audit Expert at Sparkasse
Support for Internal Audit:
Conducting an audit of the data protection officer and data protection management:
- Preparing an audit program based on the audit field concept
- Requesting the necessary audit documentation
- Carrying out control testing based on the audit program with the following focus:
- Reviewing the relevant PPS processes
- Reviewing the data protection mission statement, data protection policy, and data protection management concept
- Conducting audit interviews with the data protection officer
- Preparing the audit documentation
- Training a junior auditor in the methodology of Internal Audit
- Coordinating the audit documentation with the head of audit
Mohamad Dib-Skhni
Last position:
DevOps Engineer & IT-Security-Architect at BMW Group
- Set up Azure Kubernetes clusters (AKS) with network policies, security groups, and RBAC
- Developed Terraform-based infrastructure as code for secure, reproducible deployments in the BMW Azure cloud
- Hardened CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, SonarQube, Fortify SSC, and Contrast AST
- Integrated SAP BTP/Kyma and ServiceNow GRC
Uwe Schwarz
Last position:
Technical Program Lead IPv6 Migration at Deutsche Rentenversicherung (RP, BW)
- Technical program ownership for the IPv6 migration at DRV RP and DRV BW, with a focus on migration planning, execution structure, and cross-functional technical coordination.
- Designed and implemented an operational control model with dashboard, action board, KPI portfolio, risk register, and decision index to translate technical topics into structured delivery artifacts.
- Coordinated technical groundwork for architecture and rollout across IPv6 addressing, segmentation, dual-stack target design, test-lab planning, and cross-team dependencies.
- Supported security and compliance-related requirements in the context of BSI, NIS2, and critical infrastructure, translating them into traceable evidence, risks, and management reporting.
- Achievement: Established a reusable intake-to-governance workflow for systematically capturing technical actions, risks, open issues, and evidence requirements.
- Achievement: Created an operational baseline for technical program execution with measurable KPIs, clear ownership, and transparent decision support.
Florian Krebs
Last position:
LAN Planner at Global Network AG
- As-is assessment of the current network infrastructure and its documentation, including on-site inspections
- Independent planning of new distribution and main distribution rooms in the individual district offices (components used, rack layout, connectivity), considering the BSI IT-Grundschutz and InfoSic requirements
- Planning of new copper and fiber optic cabling, including patch panels
- Coordination with building services engineering (TGA) to ensure compliance with relevant on-site requirements
- Development of detailed execution plans and high-level concepts for the rollout of the new infrastructure
- Additional support after the components go live (hypercare phase)
- Regular communication with project management and client stakeholders
Victor Omojoye
Last position:
AI Training Engineer at Confidential AI Research Client
- Codebase Evaluation & Problem Design: Designed and stress-tested complex software engineering problems against large open-source Python codebases (including pandas), requiring deep context acquisition and architectural understanding to produce well-scoped, realistic problem statements aligned to strict correctness guidelines.
- Agent Failure Analysis: Assessed LLM coding agent solutions for correctness and completeness, identifying meaningful failures across edge case handling, dtype behaviour, and multi-column NaN propagation logic; documented findings with precision for downstream evaluation use.
- Programmatic Test Suite Development: Authored comprehensive pytest suites to programmatically verify agent-generated solutions against defined requirements, with deliberate coverage of boundary conditions and failure modes not caught by naive implementations.
- Containerised Environment Engineering: Built and debugged Docker environments for reproducible agent execution, including git-based repository provisioning, dependency pinning with npm ci, and multi-stage Dockerfile authoring across Linux-based containers.
Florian Schröder
Last position:
Information Security Officer / Designated InfoSec Officer at Oil Company
- Complete overhaul of the ISMS according to ISO 27001
- Conducted a comprehensive gap analysis
- Reduced ISMS documentation by 30% through consolidation and process optimization
- Introduced a full PDCA cycle for continuous improvement
- Established the ISMS within the company
- Implemented the necessary processes
- Managed and conducted internal and external audits
- Developed and implemented a company-wide risk management system
- Deployed an ISMS tool including process design and training
- KRITIS compliance: Prepared and provided required evidence, liaised with regulatory authorities, planned, documented, and implemented an attack detection system (SIEM), co-led the BCMS/ITSCM implementation subproject
- NIS-2 implementation: Gap analysis, risk assessments, training for executives and staff
- Led a cybersecurity team of 3 members
- Conducted various internal and external audits, managed providers, introduced continuous improvement
- Project consulting: closely coordinated with business and system owners, launched an online shop, a mobile app, and a customer portal
- Redesigned the security architecture, reducing administrative efforts by 20%
- Implemented ITIL processes (e.g., change management)
- Revised service agreements with internal and external providers
- Developed a security awareness strategy, ran social engineering tests, introduced and monitored phishing simulations, created various awareness materials, gave presentations
- Managed a budget of one million euros
Sascha Picchiantano
Last position:
Security Engineer at Kyndryl
- Operation and further development of a SASE infrastructure based on Netskope
Frank Bergmann
Last position:
System Engineer at Frequentis Comsoft
- Migrate company software to RHEL10
- Development in Bash, Python, C, Ansible
Florian Großmann
Last position:
Senior IT Project Manager Security & Infrastructure & Business Development Manager HealthCare at CGI
- Responsible project manager for complex international infrastructure projects
- Coordinator and decision-maker for IT architects in network infrastructure and software with over 100,000 users
- End-to-end project management
- Launch and implementation of initiatives
- Project management of international infrastructure projects with C-level reporting
- Leading and coordinating IT architects
- Technical project management for merger and cloud transformation
- Delivery of international software and hardware rollouts
- Implementation of IT security projects and compliance
- Work with key technologies (e.g. 5G/6G standard)
- Support of complex defense and aerospace projects (e.g. Ariane 6, Eurodrone)
- Building the healthcare and life sciences business unit
- Creating and leading internal employee trainings
Andreas Ilias
Last position:
Cybersecurity Specialist Assessor at Bundesnetzagentur
- Recognition of national notified bodies
- Preparation of cybersecurity competency reports
- EU Radio Equipment Directive
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Security Engineers statistics
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
19 years
Position duration
3.7 years
Positions per freelancer
13
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Automotive
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Quality Assurance
Bachelor's degree or higher
81%
Master's degree or higher
42%
Doctorate
8%
Certifications per freelancer
6
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
96%
Based on our profile pool as of 26 Aug 2026.
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About the role
Designing Resilient Cloud and Infrastructure Security
Freelance security professionals architect and implement robust defense layers across cloud providers and on-premise networks. They configure firewalls, manage identity and access management policies, and secure containerized environments using Kubernetes and Docker. In Germany, companies frequently require experts to align these infrastructures with strict European data privacy standards.
Integrating DevSecOps into the Software Lifecycle
Modern development requires security to be baked directly into the deployment pipeline. Experienced engineers automate vulnerability scanning, manage secrets, and perform static and dynamic code analysis within CI/CD pipelines. By bridging the gap between development and operations, they prevent security bottlenecks without slowing down release cycles.
Core Competencies and Technical Skills
- Cloud platform security across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform
- Implementation of CI/CD security tools like SonarQube, Snyk, and Aqua
- Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing methodologies
- Network security configuration, intrusion detection, and SIEM monitoring
- Cryptography, key management, and secure protocol implementation
Meeting German Compliance and Regulatory Standards
Many German businesses, especially in automotive, finance, and manufacturing, face rigorous compliance audits. Freelance consultants help organizations prepare for ISO 27001 certifications, implement TISAX requirements, and adhere to BSI IT-Grundschutz frameworks. They deliver risk assessments and actionable mitigation strategies tailored to local industrial standards.
Frequently asked questions
Everything clients usually want to know about Security Engineers, in one place.
A Security Engineer designs, implements, and monitors security systems to protect an organization's digital assets. They build secure infrastructures, run vulnerability assessments, and respond to active threats to prevent data breaches.
While an analyst focuses on monitoring, reporting, and compliance, a cybersecurity engineer builds the actual technical defenses. They write security code, configure network tools, and automate security checks within the software development lifecycle.
Hiring a freelance SecOps specialist allows German businesses to scale their security team quickly during critical migration or audit phases. Freelancers bring specialized, up-to-date knowledge from diverse projects without the long-term overhead of permanent hiring.
Look for a devsecops engineer holding industry-recognized credentials such as CISSP, CISM, CEH, or cloud-specific certifications. In Germany, experience with ISO 27001 lead auditor certifications is highly valued for compliance-heavy industries.
An external security developer embeds directly into your development sprints to review pull requests and threat models. They collaborate closely with product owners and DevOps teams to ensure security requirements do not delay sprint goals.
Most information security engineers work entirely remotely, using secure VPNs and communication tools to collaborate. Occasional on-site visits may be planned for initial risk assessments, high-security architecture planning, or final audit preparation at German headquarters.
A top-tier infrastructure security specialist is evaluated by their hands-on portfolio, technical certifications, and references from past security audits. They should demonstrate a clear understanding of threat modeling and provide structured, risk-prioritized reports.
Yes, a specialized security consultant can guide automotive suppliers through the entire TISAX readiness phase. They conduct gap analyses, design missing security controls, and document policies to ensure successful certification with German automotive partners.
The average hourly rate for Security Engineers in Germany is 101 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 809 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers working as Security Engineers in Germany, 81% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 42% hold at least a Master's degree, and 8% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers working as Security Engineers in Germany have 19 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.7 years.
The most common languages among freelancers working as Security Engineers in Germany are German (96%), English (96%), and Spanish (16%).
The most common industries among freelancers working as Security Engineers in Germany are Information Technology (92%), Professional Services (53%), and Automotive (45%).
The most common business areas among freelancers working as Security Engineers in Germany are Information Technology (100%), Project Management (65%), and Operations (63%).
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