HPE ProLiant Experts in Germany
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Germany, who have recently used HPE ProLiant
Nasif M.
Last position:
Solution Architect at SAP
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Scope:
- Operation and configuration of the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, including network, storage, and security design.
- Implementation of centralized observability solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, alerting).
- Development of CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and automation frameworks.
- Training and enablement of operations and development teams.
Result: Accelerated service delivery, transparent operational metrics, and sustainable knowledge transfer.
Pierre G.
Last position:
Ansible Automation, Windows Third Level Support at DB InfraGO AG
- PRISMA project
- Ansible automation
- Windows third-level support for Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2013, Windows 2016, Windows 2019
Markus H.
Last position:
Senior Consultant Email Security & Messaging at Industrial company, building technology, international
Restructuring email authentication across the entire domain inventory of an international industrial company with 1,000 to 5,000 users: around 45 domains in more than 20 countries.
- Inventory of all domains and classification as sending, non-sending, or unclear; target design for each domain group
- DMARC reporting (rua) as the data basis before any policy tightening, with aggregate reports analyzed over several weeks
- SPF lookup budget (limit of 10 lookups) counted rather than estimated; several assumptions from previous findings were thus disproved
- Analysis of the multi-stage mail flow across on-premises Exchange, Microsoft 365, and security gateways, and its impact on DKIM alignment and SPF
- Assessment of external findings based on evidence: confirmed, false positive, or context-dependent, with justified disagreement presented to the assessor
- Change proposals with before/after state, risk, and rollback; implementation is handled by the customer
- Tenant-to-tenant migration analysis for a group company: read-only audit, technical assessment, management summary, migration paths
- Analysis of a service shared mailbox according to CISO and data protection requirements: anonymized in the transformation layer, without personal data analysis
Technologies: Exchange Online, Exchange Hybrid, Entra ID, Microsoft Graph, PowerShell, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MTA-STS, TLS-RPT, Power BI
Matthias S.
Last position:
Subproject Manager / Head of Monitoring at IT service provider (Berlin/Kolbermoor)
- Subproject Manager / Head of Monitoring for facility management and handling operational project parts as well as coordinating operations
- CheckMK consulting: central monitoring infrastructure with CheckMK master and distributed CheckMK satellites
- Implementation of advanced monitoring approaches, integration of new plugins and customization of the CheckMK agent
- Graphic representation of performance metrics with InfluxDB and Grafana, creation of NagVis/Grafana templates and dashboards
- Monitoring of Linux/UNIX/Windows systems and active components using CheckMK agents/MRPE as well as hardware monitoring via SNMP
- Development of monitoring plugins based on Bash scripting
- Inventory and cross-disciplinary analysis for application-specific monitoring
- Concept design, testing and documentation for integrating CheckMK status messages and performance data into a higher-level umbrella system (Data Leak)
- Technical and conceptual point of contact
Marko O.
Last position:
System Administrator in a 6-person Team at FITS
- System administration of FreeBSD 11, 12 and 13.1 in a secure cloud software solution
- Administration of proxy servers for FITS and its clients, banks and state banks
- Administration of secure internet solutions
- Administration of secure mail solutions and mail gateways
- Administration of Apache 2.4 web servers
- Planning and maintenance of servers and network components in FNT Command
- Incident, change and ticket handling, especially troubleshooting network issues using Splunk and ARS
- Troubleshooting and log file analysis using Splunk Enterprise
- Monitoring with Nagios
- Ordering, provisioning and installation of certificates on Apache web servers, Nginx web servers and load balancers
- Hardware: HP ProLiant DL380 Gen 9 and 10, Cisco Catalyst
- Software: FreeBSD 11, 12 and 13.2, FNT Command, shell scripts, MySQL databases, ServiceNow, ARS, Splunk Enterprise 8.15
Pascal F.
Last position:
Senior Network Security Consultant at IT-Systemhaus
- Provided expert level consulting for lifecycle, upgrades and refresh activities
- Used Remedy for effort recording and billing to customers
- Used ServiceNow for service management and workflow
- Used Jira for project management with agile/Scrum methods
- Used Confluence for documentation
- Worked with customer-specific software tools
- Worked with customer-provided and secured hardware suitable for IT security operations infrastructure setup for customers
- Built firewall rule sets and handed over to service owner and delivery teams
- Environment: Cisco ASA, Cisco Firepower, CSM, Cisco AnyConnect, Cisco ISE, Check Point VSX and gateways
Dietrich C.
Last position:
Linux Systems Engineer at Personal Projects and Further Training
- Skills: ACLs, Android, Ansible, Apache, Backup, Bash, BindFS, Modern C++, CFEngine, ClusterSSH, CSS, CUPS, Debian, DHCP, DNS, dovecot, exim4, Firewall, FUSE, GIMP, Git, gnupg, HTML, IMAP, IPv4, Kerberos, LDAP, LineageOS, Linux, Mercurial, NAT, Networking, NFSv4, OpenPGP, OpenSSH, OpenSSL, OpenVPN, PHP, pxelinux, Python, RAID, Responsive Web Design, Routing, Shorewall, SMTP, SSHFS, SSL/TLS, systemd, TFTP, UPS, VPN, X11, XMPP
Markus K.
Last position:
Administration / Support at Hessische Zentrale für Datenverarbeitung
- Operation and development support (Linux, Tomcat)
- Web release builds with Jenkins and deployment
- Monitoring and operation planning
- Support for Online Access Act (OZG)
- Data queries and corrections in Oracle SQL via CloudBeaver and Rundeck
- Keycloak administration
- Regression testing and documentation in Jira
- Development of complex address database with MS Access/VBA
- Creation of documentation and guides in XWiki
Adrian H.
Last position:
Interim Consultant for Oracle Database Migrations to the AWS Cloud at Bank Deutsches Kraftfahrzeuggewerbe GmbH
- Migration of Oracle databases from on-premise to the AWS Cloud
- Support for technical Oracle solutions and cloud database infrastructures (IaaS and PaaS) RDS vs. EC2, sizing for performance
- Creation and maintenance of DR/HA (Disaster Recovery/High Availability) and backup and recovery policies and procedures (multi-region backup)
- Support for Oracle license selection, Enterprise → Standard migration
- Monitoring database instances
- Implementation and maintenance of database security (wallet, SSL)
- Patch management and version control
- Automated installation and configuration of Oracle databases using Terraform and Ansible
Dirk P.
Last position:
IT systems and security engineer at Self-employed consulting engineer
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Statistics of experts using HPE ProLiant
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
23 years
Position duration
2.6 years
Positions per freelancer
19
Top business areas
Information Technology, Operations, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Retail
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
80%
Master's degree or higher
60%
Doctorate
20%
Certifications per freelancer
5
Most common languages
German, English, French
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 Germany 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.
Average rates of experts in Germany using HPE ProLiant
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.
HPE ProLiant 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 (60%)
- Retail (60%)
- Government and Administration (50%)
- Telecommunication (50%)
- Energy (40%)
- Healthcare (40%)
- Manufacturing (40%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
ProLiant foundations
HPE ProLiant is a server family used for business-critical computing, virtualisation, databases, private clouds and demanding workloads. Current systems span rack, tower and modular designs, with hardware managed through HPE Integrated Lights-Out, commonly called iLO. Strong expertise covers server sizing, firmware, storage, networking and lifecycle planning.
Core ecosystem
ProLiant environments connect hardware with HPE management and data-centre tooling. Relevant skills include:
- HPE iLO, Intelligent Provisioning and OneView
- HPE Smart Array controllers, storage and RAID design
- VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Linux virtualisation
- HPE InfoSight monitoring and predictive support workflows
- Windows Server, Linux, backup and directory services
Specialists also work with rack layouts, redundant power, fibre-channel or Ethernet fabrics, and automation through REST APIs, PowerShell or Ansible.
Typical workloads
Companies use ProLiant systems for virtual machine clusters, SQL and other database services, file platforms, enterprise applications, remote desktop environments and backup repositories. They also support high-performance analytics, edge deployments and hybrid architectures where local control matters. In Germany, these systems appear across manufacturing, healthcare, public services, finance and managed infrastructure operations.
When to bring in expertise
Freelance expertise is useful during a server refresh, data-centre move, virtualisation project or recovery from an infrastructure incident. Specialists can assess an existing estate, create a migration plan, configure firmware and RAID, document the result, and coordinate validation with internal teams. On-site work may matter for rack installation and hardware changes; monitoring, planning and documentation often work well remotely across Germany.
Delivery standards
A strong ProLiant professional treats hardware, software and operations as one system. They check compatibility before changes, use controlled firmware baselines, test failover, secure iLO access and record serial, storage and warranty information. They explain trade-offs clearly and leave usable runbooks rather than relying on undocumented knowledge.
Selecting the right specialist
Look for hands-on evidence with the relevant ProLiant generation, operating systems, hypervisor and storage stack. Ask how the specialist handles maintenance windows, failed disks, firmware rollback, backup verification and capacity changes. Useful signs include precise discovery questions, clear acceptance criteria and experience integrating HPE systems with the company’s monitoring, identity and security controls.
Frequently asked questions
Before you brief your next project: the most common questions about HPE ProLiant.
HPE ProLiant servers run virtual machines, databases, enterprise applications, file services, backup systems and private-cloud workloads. They are available in tower, rack and modular formats, so companies can match the hardware to office, data-centre or edge requirements.
HPE ProLiant and Dell PowerEdge address similar server needs. The practical choice often depends on existing management tools, storage, warranty arrangements, firmware processes and the specialist skills already available in the organisation.
A capable HPE ProLiant specialist often also works with HPE iLO, OneView, VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, Linux, Windows Server, RAID, backup and network storage. Knowledge of automation, monitoring, identity and security makes the work more effective in larger environments.
The right level depends on the work. HPE ProLiant hardware installation may need focused platform knowledge, while a virtualisation migration, cluster redesign or recovery plan requires broader infrastructure experience and careful change control.
HPE ProLiant planning, monitoring, documentation and many configuration tasks can be handled remotely in Germany when secure access is available. Rack installation, cabling, component replacement and some troubleshooting still require an on-site specialist, with communication in German or English as needed.
Before changing HPE ProLiant hardware or firmware, a specialist should review the model, firmware dependencies, RAID layout, backups, maintenance window and rollback path. They should also confirm application ownership and test the change safely where possible.
Ask for a clear discovery approach and examples of comparable HPE ProLiant work. Strong professionals can explain failure handling, firmware governance, iLO security, performance checks and documentation without hiding important assumptions behind vendor terminology.
For an on-site HPE ProLiant assignment in Germany, confirm experience with the exact hardware family, data-centre procedures, cabling, storage connectivity and maintenance coordination. It also helps to agree on access requirements, change records, handover documents and remote support after the visit.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used HPE ProLiant in their recent projects is 102 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 819 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used HPE ProLiant in their recent projects, 80% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 60% hold at least a Master's degree, and 20% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used HPE ProLiant in their recent projects have 23 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.6 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used HPE ProLiant in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (10%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used HPE ProLiant in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Banking and Finance (60%), and Retail (60%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used HPE ProLiant in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Operations (70%), and Project Management (60%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used HPE ProLiant
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.
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