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 Specialist, Developer at Insurance
Project goal: Introduce OpenShift as the run-time platform and migrate all applications to OpenShift.
My contribution: Make sure logging and monitoring for the applications were in place. Set up and put into operation the OpenShift components for logging and monitoring (Elasticsearch, Prometheus, and Grafana). Develop and implement the security concept for OpenShift. Work with developers to define and carry out the application changes needed for the OpenShift migration. Integrate monitoring into the applications.
Technical environment: Java, WebSphere Liberty, OpenShift components, Elasticsearch (ELK stack), Prometheus, Grafana.
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.
Kurt B.
Last position:
Backend / Microservice Developer, DevOps, Test Automation at RCA, Rail Cargo Austria AG
- Backend / Microservice Developer, DevOps, Test Automation
- ~100 Devs, ~10 Teams, per team: 1 PO, 1 Scrum Master, 1 UX, 1 Developer, 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, FrontEnt, Test Automations)
- AI, Copilot, creating test templates
- Scheduler, Hangfire, Quartz
- Automated unit and integration tests
- Automated E2E tests, Playwright test automation, BDD, Gherkin, Cucumber
- Tracking of shipments
- GIS, GPS data, geofence, geo search, position tracking, asset positions
- Jira, Confluence
- Focus on high-performance message-oriented architecture (~xx million messages per month per service)
- Structured logging, Serilog, OTel, Splunk, Application Monitoring
- Integration of different position data sources (GPS-based data) into Azure Data Lake
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
11
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%
Certifications per freelancer
4
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
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.
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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 19 Sep 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
What Elastic Stack does
Elastic Stack is a collection of tools for collecting, storing, searching and visualizing operational data. Elasticsearch provides distributed search and analytics, while Logstash and Beats ingest data and Kibana turns it into dashboards, alerts and investigations. The stack is also widely known as the ELK Stack.
Core components
The platform combines several services that must work together reliably. Elasticsearch handles indexing and queries; Logstash transforms events; Beats and Elastic Agent collect telemetry; Kibana supports exploration, reporting and administration. Elastic Cloud and self-managed deployments serve different infrastructure needs.
- Elasticsearch mappings, queries and index lifecycle policies
- Logstash pipelines and Elastic Agent integrations
- Kibana dashboards, visualizations and alert rules
- Elastic Security and Elastic Observability workflows
Typical projects
Companies use Elastic Stack for application search, log analysis, security monitoring and infrastructure observability. It can centralize events from cloud services, containers, databases and business applications, then make them searchable for technical and operational teams.
- Search experiences with relevance tuning and autocomplete
- Centralized logging for distributed applications
- Tracing, metrics and service health monitoring
- Threat detection and investigation workflows
When specialists help
Freelance expertise is useful when an existing cluster is slow, costly or difficult to operate. Companies also bring in specialists during migrations, cloud adoption, observability rollouts and security projects. In Austria, remote collaboration often works well, while regulated or infrastructure-heavy environments may require on-site workshops.
Skills to look for
Strong professionals understand data modeling, shard design, ingestion reliability and query performance. They can connect Elastic Stack to Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, cloud services and CI/CD processes, while translating technical signals into useful dashboards. Knowledge of Linux, networking, security and automation adds practical value.
Quality indicators
A capable specialist starts with the questions users need answered, not with dashboards alone. They define retention, access control, naming and alerting standards before scaling ingestion. Look for clear migration plans, tested recovery procedures, documented pipeline behavior and evidence that the solution remains maintainable for the internal team.
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 visualize logs, metrics, traces, security events and application data. Companies also use it for site search, operational analytics and incident investigation.
Elastic Stack overlaps with Splunk in log management and security analytics, and with Grafana in observability dashboards. The right choice depends on ingestion needs, search behavior, existing integrations, operating preferences and the desired balance between Elastic and open-source components.
A strong Elastic Stack specialist often works with Linux, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, networking and CI/CD automation. Security controls, infrastructure as code and familiarity with application telemetry are also valuable for production projects.
The required depth depends on the scope. A dashboard or ingestion adjustment may need focused knowledge, while cluster design, migration, security monitoring or high-volume observability requires a specialist who has handled production reliability, access controls and recovery planning.
Elastic Stack work is often suitable for remote collaboration because configuration, dashboards and pipelines can be reviewed online. On-site sessions may still help with workshops, restricted environments or coordination with Austrian infrastructure and security teams.
Clarify the data sources, retention expectations, users, deployment model and business questions the system must answer. A useful brief also states whether the project involves Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Elastic Agent, Elastic Cloud or a migration from another tool.
Look for decisions that explain index design, mappings, shard strategy, ingestion failure handling and access control. High-quality Elastic Stack work includes documentation, monitoring, tested alerting and recovery procedures rather than attractive dashboards alone.
ELK Stack originally referred to Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana. Elastic Stack is the broader name for that ecosystem, including tools such as Beats, Elastic Agent, Elastic Security and Elastic Observability.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Austria who have used Elastic Stack in their recent projects is 105 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 837 € 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.
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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