Elastic Stack Experts in Austria
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Austria, who have recently used Elastic Stack
John A.
Last position:
Software Developer and DevOps Engineer at Bundesrechenzentrum (BRZ)
Refactoring and improving core APIs; implementing client change requests. Setting up metrics, traces, and logs monitoring infrastructure to support operations. Designing GitOps deployment and infrastructure as code. Applications and systems configuration in ArgoCD and Openshift. Confluence documentation of design, approach, and solution. Tech Stack: Java 8 & 21, Spring framework, JSP, JavaScript, Bash scripts, SQL, Grafana Stack, OpenTelemetry, Docker, DB2, Maven, Kubernetes Kompose.
Michail M.
Last position:
OpenShift / Kubernetes Consultant at cloudWerkstatt
Implementation and operation of OpenShift / Kubernetes solutions for customers, focusing on aspects such as storage, virtualization, security, logging, monitoring, and high availability. Support with application containerization and modernization.
Kurt B.
Last position:
Backend / Microservices Developer, DevOps, Test Automation at Fa. RCA, Rail Cargo Austria AG
- Backend / Microservices Developer, DevOps, Test Automation
- ~100 Developers, ~10 Teams, per Team: 1 PO, 1 ScrumMaster, 1UX, 1 Developers, 1 Tester
- .net core 8, 9, C#
- Microservices, Clean Architecture, MediatR, CQRS
- GraphQL, REST, SDL
- Azure DevOps, CI / CD pipelines, Azure Service Bus, Rabbit-MQ, Kafka, Azure App Configuration, Azure KeyVault, Azure Kubernetes AKS
- Splunk, dashboards, custom metrics, Elastic-Search, Kibana (ELK)
- Azure SQL Databases, Azure Cosmos DB
- Architecture decisions, event governance, COP (Backend, DevOps, FrontEnd, Test Automation)
- AI, Copilot, creating Test Templates
- Scheduler, Hangfire, Quartz
- Automated Unit and Integration Tests
- Automated E2E Tests, Playwright Test Automation, BDD, Gherkin, Cucumber
- Shipment tracking
- GIS, GPS data, geofence, geo search, position tracking, asset positions
- Jira, Confluence
- Focus on high-performance message-oriented architecture (~xx e6 messages / month / service)
- Structured logging, Serilog, OTel, Splunk, Application Monitoring
- Integration of different position data sources (GPS-based data) into AzureDataLake
Alexander V.
Last position:
Senior Cloud & Kubernetes Architect at A.S.E. | Business Solutions for Construction
- Architected and deployed a highly available, multi-tenant Kubernetes platform on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for business-critical microservices.
- Designed and implemented a comprehensive Infrastructure-as-Code strategy using Terraform for managing GKE clusters, networking (VPCs, Subnets), and IAM policies.
- Engineered optimized storage solutions for stateful workloads (MongoDB) using GKE PersistentVolumes, enhancing performance and data resiliency.
- Established a full-stack observability framework using Google Cloud Monitoring, Logging, Prometheus, and Grafana.
Benjamin A.
Last position:
Research Engineer at AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology
- Developed Taranis AI, an advanced open-source intelligence (OSINT) tool, leveraging artificial intelligence to revolutionize information gathering and situational analysis.
- Created cybersecurity trainings and a cyber range to provide hands-on learning experiences for SOC teams and IT management.
- Designed and implemented a hybrid cloud infrastructure using OpenStack, Terraform, and Ansible, improving the scalability and performance of the infrastructure and led the migration from an on-site only infrastructure to the hybrid cloud environment.
- Some of my current work can be found on GitHub.
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
Joseph W.
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.
Dominic W.
Last position:
Engineer / Architect at Freelancer
- Magento 2
- Symfony
- Various technologies
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Statistics of experts using Elastic Stack
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
23 years
Position duration
3.1 years
Positions per freelancer
12
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Transportation
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
57%
Master's degree or higher
14%
Certifications per freelancer
5
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
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 Austria 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.
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Explore rate insightsAverage rates of experts in Austria using Elastic Stack
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.
Elastic Stack 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%)
- Banking and Finance (50%)
- Transportation (50%)
- Government and Administration (50%)
- Insurance (38%)
- Aerospace and Defense (25%)
- Healthcare (25%)
- Manufacturing (25%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Search and observability
Elastic Stack is a collection of tools for collecting, storing, searching and visualising operational data. Elasticsearch provides distributed search and analytics, while Kibana turns indexed data into dashboards, investigations and alerts. Companies use the stack for log management, application monitoring, security analysis, enterprise search and data exploration.
Core components
The stack brings together Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash and Elastic Agent. Logstash transforms and routes events, while Elastic Agent collects logs, metrics, traces and security data from hosts and services. Strong specialists understand how these components work together and when a lighter integration or direct ingestion path is more suitable.
Delivery work
Elastic Stack projects often involve more than installing a cluster. Typical deliverables include:
- Designing index strategies, mappings, lifecycle policies and retention rules
- Building ingestion pipelines for applications, infrastructure and business data
- Creating Kibana dashboards, alerts, visualisations and saved searches
- Connecting observability, security or enterprise search workflows
When companies need support
Freelance expertise is useful when internal teams need to replace fragmented log tools, investigate production issues or make operational data easier to use. It also helps when an existing Elasticsearch environment suffers from slow queries, uncontrolled storage growth, unreliable ingestion or unclear access controls. In Austria, specialists may work remotely or alongside local teams, depending on security and operational needs.
Skills around Elastic
Effective delivery requires knowledge beyond the product names. Specialists commonly work with Linux, containers, Kubernetes, cloud services, REST APIs, JSON and infrastructure automation. They may also bring experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, SIEM practices, application performance monitoring and data governance. The right combination depends on whether the goal is search, observability, security or analytics.
What strong specialists do
Strong professionals start with data sources, query patterns, retention needs and response workflows rather than defaulting to a standard architecture. They test mappings and ingestion under realistic load, document operational ownership and protect sensitive fields through roles and access policies. They also make dashboards useful to the teams who will act on them, not just visually complete.
Frequently asked questions
Need clarity? These are the questions we hear most often about Elastic Stack.
Elastic Stack is used to collect, index, search and visualise data from applications, infrastructure, security systems and business sources. Companies commonly use it for centralised logging, observability, enterprise search, security investigations and operational analytics.
Elastic Stack is often compared with Splunk and OpenSearch for log analytics and observability. The choice depends on licensing, existing skills, ingestion needs, search behaviour, operating model and the level of control a company wants over its data platform.
Elasticsearch work often benefits from experience with Linux, cloud infrastructure, containers, Kubernetes, REST APIs and infrastructure automation. Depending on the project, knowledge of OpenTelemetry, security operations, application monitoring or data governance is also valuable.
Elastic Stack expertise should match the project risk rather than a fixed time period. A simple dashboard may need focused Kibana and ingestion knowledge, while a security, observability or high-volume search environment calls for strong skills in architecture, performance, access control and operations.
Elastic Stack projects can often be delivered remotely because configuration, dashboards, queries and pipeline work are performed through shared environments. On-site collaboration may still matter for restricted systems, incident response or workshops, and teams should agree on language, access and support expectations early.
Kibana dashboards alone are not enough to judge quality. Ask how the specialist approaches mappings, shard design, retention, ingestion failures, query performance, sensitive data and monitoring, and request examples of clear documentation and operational handover.
Logstash provides a flexible way to ingest, transform and route events before they reach Elasticsearch or another destination. It is useful when data needs enrichment or complex processing, although Elastic Agent, integrations or direct ingestion may be better for simpler pipelines.
ELK Stack originally referred to Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana. The name Elastic Stack is broader and includes tools such as Elastic Agent, Beats capabilities, integrations and security or observability features that support a wider range of use cases.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Austria who have used Elastic Stack in their recent projects is 104 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 836 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Austria who have used Elastic Stack in their recent projects, 57% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 14% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Austria who have used Elastic Stack in their recent projects have 23 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.1 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Austria who have used Elastic Stack in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and Spanish (38%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Austria who have used Elastic Stack in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Banking and Finance (50%), and Transportation (50%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Austria who have used Elastic Stack in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (88%), and Operations (75%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Elastic Stack
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
- Austria
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