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Claus Eggersberger

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Senior IT Project Manager – Digitalization in Insurance & Telecommunications

Kufstein
Claus Eggersberger

Last position:

Senior IT Project Manager – Digitalization in Insurance & Telecommunications

  • Initiation, planning, management, and closing of multiple digitalization projects

  • Requirements management including proposal creation, technical concepts & process analyses

  • Stakeholder management (internal steering, external service providers, business units)

  • Resource & capacity planning, controlling, budget responsibility

  • Claim and change management (including escalation handling)

  • Project marketing & knowledge management

  • Quality assurance & risk management according to PMO standards

  • Implementation of a cloud-based solution in customer service (insurance)

  • Harmonization & digitalization of approval and contract processes

  • Reduced processing times by >20% through optimized workflows

  • Establishment of standardized project controlling with BI dashboard

  • Jira • Confluence • MS365 (Project, Teams, SharePoint) • ITIL • PRINCE2

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Raphael Mulenda

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Senior IT Operations & Infrastructure Lead | DevOps Engineer

Mauerkirchen
Raphael Mulenda

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
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René Zingerle

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DevSecOps & Kubernetes Engineer (Freelance)

Jenbach
René Zingerle

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

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Martin Ananda Boeker

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Systems Architect

Wien
Martin Ananda Boeker

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
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Joseph Wagner

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Freelancer Cloud / Solution Architect (AWS)

Wien
Joseph Wagner

Last position:

Freelancer Cloud / Solution Architect (AWS) at A1 Bank

  • I am responsible for providing solution architecture and technical assistance for a migration initiative aimed at transitioning to a new core banking system.
  • The project involves replacing in-house development with a commercially available off-the-shelf core banking system operated as SaaS on AWS.
  • Duties encompass solution design, technical coordination, supporting development teams, and providing IT support and troubleshooting.
  • Managing over 10 global vendors and partners is crucial to project success.
  • Technologies: VMWare ESXi, AWS, EKS Kubernetes, Mastercard Payment Transaction Service, Avaloq, A1 Telekom Austria infrastructure, CheckPoint FW, F5, Site-to-Site VPNs, PingID, Futurae SDK, Airlock, UC4/Automic, Firebase, iOS/Android lifecycle management, AWS IAM, AWS AppStream, AWS S3, AWS Transfer Family, QlikView, OpenAPI.
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Fadil Kalabalukovic

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Self-employed IT Service Provider

Schöngrabern
Fadil Kalabalukovic

Last position:

Self-employed IT Service Provider at HG46-IT e.U.

  • Setup of server and application infrastructures
  • 3rd-level support for issues
  • Consulting for application software and hardware
  • Website design
  • Network setup and conclusion of maintenance contracts
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Christian Frages

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Project Manager

Schwechat
Christian Frages

Last position:

Project Manager at EVVA Sicherheitstechnologie GmbH

  • Lead the SPG team
  • Coordinate teams and activities across company boundaries
  • Intensive time and cost controlling
  • Monthly reporting to the CIO/CDO
  • Contributing to the technical solution concept and sprint planning
  • Responsibility for rollout planning
  • Involvement in testing
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Roland Millonig

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Oracle DBA (Remote)

Villach
Roland Millonig

Last position:

Oracle DBA (Remote) at Werkstoff-Kunstoffindustrie, Germany

  • Supported migration of Oracle databases to AWS
  • Performed performance tuning both on-premises and in AWS
  • Advised on sizing of new databases
  • Analyzed Oracle edition switch scenarios
  • Designed backup and restore concepts for AWS Oracle RDS
  • Configured RDS instances using CloudFormation CLI
  • Implemented load balancer and HAProxy solutions
  • Migrated data on-premises to AWS S3 using Oracle Data Pump
  • Utilized Oracle 19c, Visual Code, Git, and SQL Developer
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Marcel Zvala

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Project Associate Software Migration

Wien
Marcel Zvala

Last position:

Project Associate Software Migration at APC Business Services GmbH; AG Wien Digital MA01/MA41

  • Created PowerShell scripts for silent installation and uninstallation of software
  • IT office setup in the construction sector
  • Installed PCs, smartphones, printers, NAS
  • Various client-side problem resolutions
  • Web design for WordPress websites
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Michael Krakowitsch

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Business WIFI installation

Vienna
Michael Krakowitsch

Last position:

Business WIFI installation

  • WIFI installation for various customers

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Statistics of experts using Active Directory

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

23 years

Position duration

3.9 years

Positions per freelancer

12

Top business areas

Information Technology, Operations, Project Management

Top industries

Information Technology, Manufacturing, Telecommunication

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Operations, Project Management

Bachelor's degree or higher

40%

Master's degree or higher

30%

Certifications per freelancer

4

Most common languages

German, English, French

Speak two or more languages

100%

Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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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 Active Directory

Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.

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Daily rate avg. 789 €

The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.

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Median rate 760 €

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 30 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.

About the technology

Identity core

Active Directory is Microsoft’s directory service for managing users, groups, computers, and access in Windows-based environments. It keeps identity, authentication, and authorization in one place, which makes it central to day-to-day IT operations. Companies use it to control who can sign in, what they can reach, and how internal systems trust each other.

Typical work

  • Domain and OU design
  • Group Policy planning and cleanup
  • Trusts, replication, and DNS support
  • Account and access model reviews
  • Migration planning from older setups

Strong professionals work close to Windows Server, DNS, and PowerShell. They also know how to document changes clearly, because directory issues often affect many systems at once. In Austria, this matters in offices, plants, shared-service teams, and regulated environments where stable access is essential.

Common tools

Active Directory work often sits beside Group Policy, PowerShell, RSAT, and certificate services. In many projects, experts also touch hybrid identity with Entra ID, federation, and Azure AD Connect. Good specialists understand both the directory itself and the systems around it, especially when authentication must stay consistent across sites.

When to bring help

Companies bring in freelance expertise when an AD environment feels brittle, outdated, or poorly documented. Typical signs include broken permissions, slow logons, replication issues, unclear group structure, or a migration that must be planned without downtime. A specialist is also useful when internal teams need a clean handover after an audit, merger, or server refresh.

What strong experts do

Strong Active Directory professionals think in structure, security, and recovery. They know how to separate admin roles, reduce privilege sprawl, tune policies carefully, and test changes before rollout. They also leave behind clear runbooks so the environment stays manageable after the project ends.

Built for scale

AD is still the backbone for many internal networks, file access layers, remote sign-in flows, and legacy business applications. It is especially important where older systems must keep working while the identity setup moves toward hybrid cloud. A good expert can keep both worlds aligned without creating unnecessary risk.

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Frequently asked questions

Before you brief your next project: the most common questions about Active Directory.

Active Directory is used to manage identities, authentication, and access across Windows-based systems. It helps companies control user accounts, computer objects, groups, and policies from one central directory. That makes it easier to secure internal resources and keep administration consistent.

Active Directory is built for on-premises directory and domain services, while Entra ID is a cloud identity service. Many companies use both together in hybrid setups, especially when older Windows Server systems still need domain-based control. A good specialist knows where each one fits and how they connect.

A strong Active Directory specialist usually also works with Windows Server, DNS, Group Policy, PowerShell, and RSAT. In hybrid environments, Entra ID, Azure AD Connect, and federation tools often matter too. Backup, recovery, and access design are also part of the job.

A simple Active Directory cleanup may need a focused specialist, while a migration, trust redesign, or security overhaul needs deeper hands-on experience. The more systems depend on the directory, the more important planning and testing become. If logon, file access, or application access is at stake, do not treat it as routine work.

Yes, most Active Directory tasks can be done remotely if the right administrative access and change process are in place. Site visits are mainly useful for server-room checks, network tracing, or coordination with local IT teams. For companies in Austria, remote collaboration often works well when documentation and communication are clear.

Look for real experience with Active Directory domain design, Group Policy, and recovery work, not just basic account administration. Ask how they handle replication issues, privileged access, and rollback planning. Clear documentation and calm change management are strong signs of quality.

Yes, Active Directory remains important when local file services, Windows logon, or older business applications still depend on domain services. Many hybrid setups use it together with Entra ID so internal and cloud identities stay aligned. A specialist should understand both the legacy side and the migration path.

A solid Active Directory project often ends with a cleaner OU structure, improved group design, updated policies, and written recovery steps. Depending on the scope, deliverables may also include trust diagrams, migration plans, access reviews, and handover notes. The goal is a directory that is easier to operate and safer to change.

The average hourly rate of freelancers in Austria who have used Active Directory in their recent projects is 99 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 789 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers in Austria who have used Active Directory in their recent projects, 40% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 30% hold at least a Master's degree.

On average, freelancers in Austria who have used Active Directory in their recent projects have 23 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.9 years.

The most common languages among freelancers in Austria who have used Active Directory in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (18%).

The most common industries among freelancers in Austria who have used Active Directory in their recent projects are Information Technology (91%), Manufacturing (55%), and Telecommunication (55%).

The most common business areas among freelancers in Austria who have used Active Directory in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Operations (73%), and Project Management (64%).

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