Backup Experts in Austria
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Austria, who have recently used Backup
Claus E.
Last position:
Senior IT Project Manager – Digitalization in Insurance & Telecommunications
Initiation, planning, management and completion of several digitalization projects
Requirements management including proposal preparation, business 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 in line with PMO standards
Implementation of a cloud-based solution in customer service (insurance)
Harmonization & digitalization of approval and contract processes
Reduction of processing times by >20 % through optimized workflows
Establishment of standardized project controlling with BI dashboard
Jira • Confluence • MS365 (Project, Teams, SharePoint) • ITIL • PRINCE2
Alexander P.
Last position:
Owner & Lecturer at Own company for AI governance and data products, Vienna
- Consulting and interim management at the interface between IT operations and regulation
- Impact analysis and implementation planning for NISG 2026 and the EU AI Act, including risk management and reporting and evidence processes
- Training for governing bodies and employees on regulatory obligations
- Lectures in Data & Information Management and Human-Machine Interaction at University of Applied Sciences Burgenland, since 2023
- Supervision of master’s theses and participation in the examination board
- Presentations for business and educational institutions
- Design and development of data and AI products, platforms and pipelines
- Privacy-first architectures and zero-knowledge encryption, cloud-native on EU infrastructure
- MLOps and AIOps in live operations
- Own applications under own brand: shared codebase, separate delivery for each target device
- AI-assisted software development (vibe coding), complete agentic pipelines, code generation, implementation, automated testing, CI/CD and release cycles
- Publications on the EU AI Act, NIS2, DORA, CRA and CER as an integrated governance system
- Publications on data sovereignty, cloud economics and industrial image processing
- AI governance / compliance: data quality, Responsible AI, EU AI Act readiness, risk classification, AI ethics
Patrick J.
Last position:
Business Consultant at Patrick JOBST - Business Consulting & Internet Services
- Procrastination for beginners. The companion for your digital business model.
- Ultimate support for digital strategy, content marketing, search engine optimization, web development, social selling, online courses and consulting from one source.
- Sparring & mentoring for self-employed people, freelancers, entrepreneurs and coaches.
- Website & social media analysis.
Zoran J.
Last position:
Technical Writer – Implementation of the BNPP IT PROD SEC Service Catalog at BNP Paribas Germany
Design, authorship and finalization of the IT PROD SEC service catalog with eight standardized security services (S-ID001–S-ID008).
Development of consistent service components & deliverables, RACI assignments and SLA and KPI definitions for each service.
Integration of BaFin document requirements under DORA into the service descriptions.
Coordination with IT, compliance, risk and operations teams to validate all service descriptions.
Specifically for governance & monitoring: definition of governance cadence, evidence delivery processes, audit support and definition of measurable KPIs and measurement methods.
Ensuring that all services are standardized, measurable and documented in an audit-proof manner.
Result: Approved service catalog with eight services as a binding basis for delivery, governance and audits; transparent SLAs/KPIs for each service and DORA/BAIT/MaRisk-compliant documentation with clear responsibilities and evidence trails.
Technologies and tools: Confluence, Jira, ServiceNow, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, Office 365.
Emre H.
Last position:
DevOps Engineer at SIWA Online GmbH
- Planning and implementation of IT infrastructures for clients
- Automating deployments with AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK
- Monitoring and optimizing cloud environments and the entire IT infrastructure
- Providing technical support and troubleshooting infrastructure issues
- Collaborating with development teams on CI/CD processes
Raphael M.
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
Markus K.
Last position:
Document Development at Insurance Company
- Replacement of original Dopix documents and modules into the Quadient document environment
- Extension of document logic
René Z.
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
Thomas L.
Last position:
Interim Director of Telecommunications Operations at Plusnet
- Leading and restructuring operations departments
- Transforming into a digital ISP
- Managing support for telecommunications services (FTTx, xDSL, voice, DWDM, access)
- Network operations center (NOC)
- Managing customer satisfaction
Fadil K.
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
Wilhelm L.
Last position:
Office365 2nd Level Support at Freelance Work
- Support for Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook Classic, Outlook Web Access (OWA), New Outlook, and Teams
- Resolving critical OneDrive and SharePoint synchronization problems, including Windows drive error checks
- Conducting focused training to reduce user errors and increase awareness of potential issues
Martin H.
Last position:
Software Development & IT-Consulting at Self-Employed
Tech stack: Flutter/Dart, Unity3D, React, NextJS, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, SASS, SCSS, Tailwind, Bootstrap, Ollama, llama.cpp, LangChain, MCP, RAG, n8n, Node-Red, PlatformIO, Arduino, ESP, C, C++, Python/Django, NodeJS, C#, .NET, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS-SQL, MongoDB, AWS, Azure, GCP, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure Pipelines, Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Postman, REST, WebSocket, Figma, Penpot, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, VS Code, Android Studio, Visual Studio, Unity3D, Jira, Confluence, Traefik, Rclone, Authentik, pfSense, Cloudflare, Proxmox, MQTT
Previous projects:
n8n automation that reads incoming emails from an Office mailbox and routes them to stakeholders
FastMCP 2 server exposing internal services via REST API to an LLM
Terraform migration of cloud infrastructure with Azure VMs, network, blob, storage and cloud-init
Azure Pipelines for automated testing, deployment, and artifact management
Terraform, Ansible, Cloudflare Tunnel integration with Docker container provisioning and backups
GitHub Actions CI/CD for Flutter app builds, testing, automated screenshots, and App Store deployment
Flutter app with SSO, local database, backend integration, BLE synchronization
GCP setup with Cloud DNS, App Engine, Cloud SQL
AWS environment with EC2, S3, Route 53, ECS
Workshops delivered on Docker, Git, Terraform, Ansible, Cloudflare, DevOps, modern software development practices
Backend development with Python Django REST Framework, PostgreSQL, MQTT
SSO identity provider with OIDC, OAuth, LDAP, Cloudflare Tunnels, Authentik
Michael S.
Last position:
Director, IT at Austria Juice GmbH
- Directed IT operations across 13 sites in China, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Germany, Ukraine, and Austria.
- Built and led a new IT team with personnel based in Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Germany.
- Upgraded outdated IT infrastructure at sites in Austria, Germany, Romania, and Poland, enhancing clients, printers, networks, servers, storage, firewalls, and backups.
- Retired the legacy phone system and transitioned to Teams.
- Established and deployed AI tools, including Copilot and Zapier.
- Implemented NIS II readiness and achieved ISO 27001 certification.
- Eliminated inefficient business applications to enhance operational efficiency.
- Developed and executed new processes for operations technology, business process outsourcing, purchasing, human resources, and IT.
- Launched a new SAP Warehouse System.
- Established IT standards across all sites.
- Engaged effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
- Defined and monitored security KPIs, ensuring targets were met.
- Managed budgeting processes, achieving a 15% reduction in operational expenditure.
Mateo H.
Last position:
SAP Userline, Request and Authorization Management at EBCONT
- User management and assignment of authorizations in SAP systems and connected systems
- Handling user requests via the ticket system
- Support in Identity and Access Management (IAM) and involvement in designing business roles
- Actively supporting customers with incidents and requests related to SAP authorizations
- Data preparation for audits and reviews
- Interface between customers, business units, developers and test management
Roland M.
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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Statistics of experts using Backup
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
23 years
Position duration
3.3 years
Positions per freelancer
11
Top business areas
Information Technology, Operations, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Manufacturing, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Operations
Bachelor's degree or higher
50%
Master's degree or higher
36%
Certifications per freelancer
4
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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 Backup
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 19 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Backup 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%)
- Manufacturing (47%)
- Professional Services (47%)
- Banking and Finance (42%)
- Retail (37%)
- Automotive (32%)
- Telecommunication (32%)
- Insurance (26%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Purpose and scope
Backup is the practice of copying data and system states so they can be restored after deletion, hardware failure, ransomware, human error or a major outage. It supports databases, virtual machines, file services, cloud workloads, business applications and endpoint data. A sound design covers recovery goals, retention, encryption, access control and tested restoration rather than simply storing copies.
Platforms and tooling
Backup environments may combine on-premises storage, object storage, tape, public cloud and immutable repositories. Common tooling includes Veeam, Commvault, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup, Cohesity, Azure Backup and AWS Backup. Strong specialists understand agents, snapshots, replication, deduplication, compression, backup proxies, repositories and management APIs, then fit those components to the existing infrastructure.
Typical delivery work
- Assess workloads, dependencies, recovery objectives and current restore risks
- Create backup policies for virtual, physical, database and cloud systems
- Configure schedules, retention, encryption, immutability and off-site copies
- Automate monitoring, alerting, reporting and capacity checks
- Run restore tests and document disaster recovery procedures
The deliverable may be a new protection environment, a migration away from legacy tooling, or a recovery runbook that operations teams can use under pressure.
When companies need specialists
Companies often bring in freelance expertise during cloud migrations, data-centre changes, security programmes, audits or ransomware preparation. An external specialist can review whether backups are actually recoverable, remove gaps between production and recovery environments, and establish ownership for alerts and tests. In Austria, remote collaboration can work well for configuration and reviews, while on-site access may help with appliances, storage and controlled recovery exercises.
Skills beyond backup
Reliable work depends on adjacent knowledge. Specialists should be comfortable with virtualization, Windows and Linux, storage systems, networking, identity management, databases and cloud services. They also need to understand security principles such as least privilege, key management, air-gapped or immutable copies, and separation between backup administration and production access. Clear documentation matters as much as configuration.
What strong professionals deliver
The strongest professionals begin with business impact and recovery priorities, not a preferred product. They explain trade-offs between backup, replication and snapshots, identify single points of failure, and validate assumptions with controlled restore tests. They leave behind understandable policies, diagrams, operating procedures and evidence that recovery works. They communicate clearly with infrastructure, security, compliance and business teams, whether working remotely or on site in Austria.
Frequently asked questions
The facts hiring teams ask for most often when it comes to Backup.
Backup creates recoverable copies of data, applications and system configurations. Companies use it to restore operations after accidental deletion, infrastructure failure, cyberattacks or other disruptive events. A specialist can connect protection policies to business recovery priorities.
Backup keeps recovery copies that can be retained, isolated and restored independently from production. Replication usually maintains a current copy for faster failover, while snapshots capture a point in time within a storage or virtualization system. A resilient design may use all three for different recovery scenarios.
A strong Backup specialist usually understands storage, virtualization, Windows or Linux, networking, databases and cloud services. Security knowledge is also important, including identity controls, encryption, immutable storage and ransomware-resistant recovery. Experience with monitoring and operational documentation helps teams run the environment safely.
The right Backup experience depends on scope, workload variety and recovery risk rather than a fixed career length. A focused policy review may need a different profile from a multi-site migration or disaster recovery programme. Ask for examples of restore testing, incident response and documentation similar to your environment.
Backup assessments, policy design, monitoring reviews and much of the configuration can often be completed remotely. On-site collaboration may be useful when the project involves physical appliances, restricted networks, storage changes or supervised recovery exercises in Austria. Agree access controls, communication routines and escalation paths before work begins.
Good Backup work is demonstrated by successful, documented restores rather than by completed configuration alone. Check whether the specialist maps policies to recovery objectives, protects management access, monitors failures and tests dependencies. Clear runbooks and evidence from controlled recovery exercises are strong quality signals.
Backup projects may use Veeam, Commvault, Rubrik, Veritas NetBackup, Cohesity, Azure Backup or AWS Backup. The best choice depends on workload location, retention needs, security controls, existing contracts and recovery design. A capable specialist should compare fit and operating effort instead of forcing one product.
Before a Backup engagement, clarify protected workloads, recovery priorities, retention rules, access permissions, storage locations and existing failure reports. Also confirm who owns testing, alerts, encryption keys and final documentation. These details define the work more accurately than the product name alone.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Austria who have used Backup in their recent projects is 107 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 852 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Austria who have used Backup in their recent projects, 50% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 36% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Austria who have used Backup in their recent projects have 23 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.3 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Austria who have used Backup in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (37%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Austria who have used Backup in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Manufacturing (47%), and Professional Services (47%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Austria who have used Backup in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Operations (58%), and Project Management (58%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Backup
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.
Vienna Graz 
Vienna Countries:
- Germany
- Austria
- Switzerland
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