Firewall Experts in Austria
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Austria, who have recently used Firewall
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.
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.
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
Christian W.
Last position:
EHF.at
- Further development and ongoing maintenance of the existing WordPress site for EHF.at to revamp the responsive design and improve usability on mobile devices.
- Integration of WooCommerce into the existing site for full e-commerce functionality and digitization of the team sports apparel sales process.
- Implementation and configuration of an automated newsletter system to strengthen customer loyalty through regular updates and personalized offers.
- Ongoing maintenance including regular updates, performance optimizations, and security checks to keep the site up-to-date and functional.
- Project-related technical activities: PHP, CSS, and JavaScript.
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
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
Martin A.
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
Alexander T.
Last position:
Functional Analyst & Administrator at Netz Niederösterreich GmbH
- Introduced automated testing for Fabasoft components and trained testers to create automated test cases.
- Installed AppTest on the server and clients.
- Requested firewall exceptions to allow communication between the AppTest server and clients.
- Conducted training sessions for testers.
- Automated test workflows.
- Created reports and sent emails.
- Enabled faster reviews of new releases, reduced manual testing effort, and improved documentation of test results and discovered defects.
Andreas K.
Last position:
DevOps Consultant at Automotive/freelancer
- Infrastructure automation with Ansible, AWX, Docker/DockerCompose/Kubernetes, GitLab, Bash, Python (Ubuntu)
- Infrastructure monitoring with Icinga2
- Software development in Python
- Qemu, KVM, libvirt
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
Stefan M.
Last position:
Founder & CEO at MoreGeek IT Services GmbH
- I offer project-based short and long-term freelance services for Linux and open source projects
- DevOps/SecOps/Sysadmin for Linux operating systems with a strong focus on idempotent automation and high availability
- Migration projects: on-site to cloud (and vice versa) and cloud-to-cloud migrations between providers
- Development environments: standardizing customers' development and sysadmin workstations/clients
- Digital sovereignty solutions (independent of hyperscalers): Linux desktop (Ubuntu/SUSE), mail and communications (groupware mail/calendar/contacts), file sharing and collaboration (Nextcloud)
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.
Christian F.
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
Nehat A.
Last position:
IT Application Manager at Self Employed - BM.I
- .net C# - IIS Application Management
- Graylog, MS Windows Server AD, DNS, DHCP, Failover Cluster Manager, Ansible Linux for Deployment, MS SQL Server
Michael K.
Last position:
Business WIFI installation
- WIFI installation for various customers
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Statistics of experts using Firewall
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
22 years
Position duration
4.2 years
Positions per freelancer
8
Top business areas
Information Technology, Operations, Product Development
Top industries
Information Technology, Manufacturing, Healthcare
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Operations
Bachelor's degree or higher
54%
Master's degree or higher
23%
Certifications per freelancer
5
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 Firewall
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.
Firewall 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 (93%)
- Manufacturing (47%)
- Healthcare (40%)
- Construction (27%)
- Aerospace and Defense (20%)
- Banking and Finance (20%)
- Pharmaceutical (20%)
- Professional Services (20%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Network Protection
A firewall controls traffic between trusted and untrusted networks. It applies rules to IP addresses, ports, protocols, applications and user identities, helping prevent unauthorised access while allowing legitimate communication. Firewalls can protect office networks, data centres, cloud workloads and internet-facing services.
Firewall Types
Network firewalls sit at the edge of an environment, while host-based firewalls protect individual servers or endpoints. Next-generation firewalls add application awareness, intrusion prevention, malware inspection and encrypted-traffic controls. Web application firewalls focus on HTTP and API traffic, shielding applications from attacks that network rules alone may not detect.
Ecosystem And Tooling
Strong firewall work connects policy with the wider security and infrastructure stack:
- Fortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point and Cisco firewall platforms
- VPNs, VLANs, routing, NAT and high-availability clusters
- SIEM, identity providers, endpoint security and threat-intelligence feeds
- Infrastructure as code, configuration backups and central policy management
Project Needs
Companies bring in freelance firewall specialists for a new network design, a data-centre migration or a cloud connection. They may need help replacing legacy appliances, segmenting sensitive systems, reviewing rules or responding to an audit. In Austria, professionals often support organisations across manufacturing, finance, healthcare and public services, with remote work combined with on-site access when equipment or local teams require it.
Delivery And Operations
A reliable engagement covers more than initial configuration. It can include traffic discovery, rule modelling, migration planning, VPN setup, logging, alert tuning, failover testing and clear operating documentation. Specialists should make changes safely, use controlled rollout plans and explain how administrators can review and maintain the policy after handover.
Choosing Specialists
Look for professionals who can show disciplined change management and explain why each rule exists. They should understand routing as well as security, distinguish a real threat from normal application traffic and test behaviour under failure conditions. For remote collaboration, define access controls, approval paths, communication language and escalation procedures before production changes begin.
Frequently asked questions
Before you brief your next project: the most common questions about Firewall.
A firewall filters traffic between networks, systems or applications according to defined security rules. Companies use it to control internet access, separate network zones, protect services, enable VPN connections and record security-relevant events.
A next-generation firewall can identify applications, users and threat patterns in addition to checking addresses and ports. Traditional firewalls still work well for straightforward segmentation and filtering, while next-generation features add deeper inspection and intrusion prevention.
A strong firewall specialist should understand TCP/IP, routing, switching, DNS, VPNs and network segmentation. Useful adjacent skills include cloud networking, identity management, SIEM integration, scripting, incident response and high-availability design.
The right level depends on the risk and scope of the environment. A small rule review may need focused platform knowledge, while a migration, segmented enterprise network or production cutover calls for a firewall professional who has handled planning, testing, rollback and incident escalation.
Many firewall tasks can be completed remotely through controlled administrative access, including policy reviews, configuration and documentation. On-site work may still be useful for appliance installation, cabling, physical troubleshooting or coordination with teams that cannot grant remote access.
A firewall may need replacement when it no longer receives security updates, cannot inspect current traffic patterns or lacks capacity and integration options. A specialist should first review business requirements, rule quality, licensing, resilience and migration risks rather than treating replacement as the only solution.
Ask how the firewall professional discovers required traffic, removes unnecessary access and tests rules before deployment. Good delivery includes documented decisions, least-privilege policies, useful logging, tested failover and a clear rollback plan.
A firewall freelancer may specialise in platforms such as Fortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point or Cisco, as well as open-source solutions. The important factor is transferable understanding of policy design, routing, inspection, VPNs and operations, not only familiarity with one product.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Austria who have used Firewall in their recent projects is 111 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 887 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Austria who have used Firewall in their recent projects, 54% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 23% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Austria who have used Firewall in their recent projects have 22 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 4.2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Austria who have used Firewall in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (27%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Austria who have used Firewall in their recent projects are Information Technology (93%), Manufacturing (47%), and Healthcare (40%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Austria who have used Firewall in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Operations (67%), and Product Development (47%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Firewall
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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